#on lust

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- Melissa Febos - Abandon me

[soircieres]

‘— But the thing about poison is that out of everything in the big, bad world, nothing tastes as sweet.’

from Gretel & Hansel (2020), directed by Oz Perkins.

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- The Small Hand - Susan Hill

[voicedwords]

The German word for dream is traume., Cathy Linh Che

[exolyrids]

trace your fingers over my palms for I am touch starved and you bring lightning to my veins. it’s all just biology, isn’t it? nothing personal, not really. just my synapses firing up acetylcholine; pacinian pressure of your skin on mine, dopamine rush to wash away reason, staccato heartbeats plucking bass on my heartstrings. today you are apollo and I am your lyre. it doesn’t matter that we will be strangers tomorrow, if I forget myself tonight.

–– on want