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𝘸𝘩𝗲𝗇   t𝘩𝗲   t𝗂𝗺𝗲   𝖼ɑ𝗺𝗲   t𝗼   𝗽𝗎t   ɑ𝘸ɑ𝘆   t𝘩𝗲   𝘸𝗼𝗹𝗳, 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘥   𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥   𝘪𝘵   𝘩𝘢𝘥   𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥   𝘩𝘦𝘳,   𝘵𝘰𝘰.

[mournfulroses]

Tillie Olsen, from her short story collection "Tell Me A Riddle," published in 1960

[heavensghost]

Shirley Jackson, The haunting of hill house

[geryone]

Dispatch, Cameron Awkward-Rich

[soracities]

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[zoiamossour]

Zoïa Mossour for Excess Only (2020)

[zoiamossour]

Happy 21st Birthday, Zoïa Mossour (10/02/2001)

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “The Seven Ages”, Poems 1962 - 2012

[lifeinpoetry]

“i laughed today. / for a second i was unhaunted. i was the sun, not light / from some dead star.”

— Danez Smith, from “it began right here,” Don’t Call Us Dead

[heavensghost]

i love you, it looks like rain, june gehringer

[mournus]

““You think you know death, but you don’t. Not until you’ve seen it, ’til you’ve really seen it. It gets under your skin and lives inside you. There’s nothing you can do. Nothing.””

— - Cook. Rise, part two.

[luthienne]

“She herself is a haunted house. […] She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking…”

— Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Lady of the House of Love”

[lifeinpoetry]

“she… longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you, girl?”

— Euripides, from Hippolytos, Grief Lessons: Four Plays tr. Anne Carson

[raeb-log]

i am dismissed & can breathe again. sometimes i see a scarf as a snake, writhing down from the scalp, twisted round the neck, tight. i / remember the first time i did that, waiting for my own venom to take me down. to spit through this body, to make me holy again, i was / perseus, new-aged & the first to be slain / this time. i was a child turned to stone from the inside. i taste / the blood & out comes the coral / of the red sea, hissing through the gullet.

— ‘mother medusa’ – lahraeb munir

[theewhitewitch]

Untitled.

[draumas]

ZOIA MOSSOUR 2023, ph. India Lange