The Way It Is Now by Laurinda Lind
YOU ARE TOO YOUNG to remember why the wars started. They coated your heart like candy, like caffeine that waits within your blood until you are crashed on the couch with one eye strung tight all night to the neon sign across the street. As far as you have ever known, everyone is armed and there is no dark that doesn’t kneel down in its own rich thicket of nerves. Fear, strong and sweet, flows from all faucets and as soon as one assassination gets going, a taxi speeds you to another so long as you are willing to pay with the pain hidden in the linings of your pockets.
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Read more of Laurinda Lind’s thoughtful, powerful work in Sheriff Nottingham XV: Black Friday – coming out November 23rd!
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