The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

Author:Rufi Thorpe [Thorpe, Rufi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

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I had been supposed to break it off with Anthony, and I told my Aunt Deedee that I had, but somehow I could not do it. Instead, I ghosted him. But I could not bring myself to block his number, and so his texts leaked through, blooming like blood through a bandage. And I read them.

He wrote:

Probably you are wise to be ignoring me, and I imagine it is because you have learned something about me that displeases you, and probably you are right to do so. There is something in the geometry of your upper lip and the way the skin connects to the cartilage of your nose and the thicker flesh of your lips that dissolves my moral ability into a series of snapping synapses. I look at your blinking eye and I do not know who I am or what I am allowed to have, and I feel joyful and guiltless like a child. It is difficult not to believe I have a right to this feeling. It is difficult not to believe that every creature under the sun has a right to something as simple and honest as the pleasure I feel hearing your voice as you talk, climbing a series of ideas as a young boy might climb a tree, innocent of how far he could fall.

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