Kate Gies
Writer
Ablution
in Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You
“She slides her finger into her mouth, bites down; the salted skin squeaks against her teeth. Blood on her tongue, fingertip pulsing like a tiny heart. Heat flushes through her arms and chest. She feels ignited, and if she’d known yesterday her body could feel this way, she’d have shoved him off instead of laying slack-jawed, swallowing the stuttered symphonies of his breath … ”