Janey A

“Sometimes I imagine what it’d be like to show you I’m alive. The thrill of it. The sharp inhale. The nerve exposed. The bone.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

“A hand pressed lightly against
my neck. Lips grazing
the apple of my bottom lip.
Your name like a tongue
over the ridges of my teeth.
Your body like a downpour
with me dancing underneath it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Crybaby

“I think I wait for people to hurt me," she said quietly, "and when they do I feel a certain smugness at being right. And, after that, I just feel pain.”
― Sue Zhao

“The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea