The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter

Author:Sarah Rose Etter
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio

I PICTURE IT: THREE TOMBSTONES, THREE times my head over the casket, three perfectly still faces in repose, three times the hollow sound of soil hitting casket.

“What’s wrong?” my mother asks.

I can’t speak, my chest is paralyzed, my lungs won’t make air.

“I know you hate coming home,” she says. “I know you can’t stand it.”

My mouth is stuck open, pained, the terrifying future stuck in my head, chiseled into the gray matter of my brain.

“It isn’t that,” I say finally.

“Just admit that you hate us and you don’t want to be here,” she says, slamming down her fork.

My throat is so full of love and sorrow that no more words come out. I can’t breathe and I know nothing, looking into the heart of the future, the relentless oncoming of death.

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