2025-26 SotA Literary Magazine | Page 10

Article 3: Freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment In Salem and in Pendle, they bobbed women like gala apples and with teeth animal sunk
in to the sweet flesh soft of our mothers, whose trunks bore burls too brazen for the likes of mankind.
Offended were their eyes at such filthy displays of texture- their dissent must be crushed.
I despise how, still, I would sooner burn myself at the stake for the crime of complexity than sink my fingers through the orange-peel intricacy of womanhood.
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