Excerpt from my upcoming novel, ROSE WITCH: the lesbian, YA retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” in verse. COMING SOON!  Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when ROSE WITCH is released!

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“I want you,” Grace tells

the spiraled girl,

the freezing girl,

the monstrous girl,

“to live.”

From the depths & darkness

of the frozen mud,

from the irreversible act

of forever sleep,

Perish rises.