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Dantiel W. Moniz

Milk Blood Heat

  • MJhas quoted3 years ago
    ut the past didn’t come. There was only this new wife, skeletal and knowing, grinning down at him in the dark with what seemed like contempt.
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    She latched her lips to his and Fred felt he could taste the sickness in her mouth.
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    Over the years, he’d let Gloria fill the rooms with art and plants and rare books, since she couldn’t fill them with children. I
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    She said it was her last-minute souvenir, like Haha, what’d you bring me back from Cancerland?
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    She looked like a child dressed in her mother’s clothes, and in that moment, he loved her terribly.
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    because even in the dark she’s incandescent.
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    There are no shadows under Zey’s words, nothing hidden, and in that openness, the boy opens too, his fear escaping bravado and legacy to surface on his face.
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    She wishes this moment of connection was enough, but Duck’s waiting and she has to speak. Truth is beautiful, she tells her brother, quoting Emerson, but so are lies.
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    How they ostracized the woman, conspired to contain her light.
  • MJhas quoted3 years ago
    . Addler keeps a word-of-the-day calendar on her desk, so in fourth period, while Zeyah tunes out her teacher’s prattle on American history, she learns new words: censure, vicissitude, caliginous, exegesis. Slick words, shape-shifting, Zey devours them, voracious.
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