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He picks it up, shovels it into his mouth, bites down. Thank you, he says, and chunks of eye slime fly from his face. He pets her hair. He asks, What colour would you say that is? She says, I don’t know, maybe a reddish brown? He says, Yeah, just like a fox. She grabs fistfuls of the hair and pulls. Warm blood rivers from her scalp, reminding her of the hot fudge she likes on her ice-cream; she’s a blood sundae. She hands him clumps of hair with bits of skin attached at the roots. Oh my, he says, thank you. He brushes the hair over his cheek, over his neck, over his chest, then stuffs it in his pants. What else do you like? she asks. That smile of yours. Yes, of course, my smile. She tugs at her lips until the skin around them thins. She tugs until the skin tears and the lips rip from her face. They're like dead worms in her fingers. Dead erms! she says and gives them over. She laughs because she can't make “w” sounds without lips. She gags because of the blood sliding down her throat. He chews on the lips. She throws-up rusty oceans. He pulls the lips from his teeth and spreads them back into her face. She tries her best to smile but the lips won’t take directions. Smile for me, he says. He presses his hands into the lips, curves the corners upwards to her cheeks. Smile for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bda5106e74940e6756f7efb/1542068705226-U090QQPNP6ZF804XGUDF/ethereal-839554_1920.jpg Other Words - 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 … ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bda5106e74940e6756f7efb/1542068577199-JJ11LA3LQHN7KRIG8PFX/map-595790_1920.png Other Words - Between Middle Earths in The Puritan’s Town Crier “When my boyfriend hands me his copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, his face pinches with emotion. We’re 20 and in the stage of love where we want to share everything with each other. This, he says, is the greatest thing you’ll ever read. I’m surprised by the book’s thickness but excited to finally delve into the grand tale of elves and wizards I keep hearing about—it’ll be a nice change from the John Irving marathon I’ve been on for the past year. I stuff the book in my purse and my purse becomes the shape and weight of a brick. I can’t wait to read it, I say. 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He grabs your hand, presses it to his chest, and a gelled noodle of hair falls to his forehead. Can you feel it in my heart? he asks. All you can feel is your stomach twisting and curling up past your ribs. Your throat stings with the vinegar of your stomach, so you start swallowing. You’re nodding and swallowing. 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When the nurse tells me there’s another girl on the ward born without a right ear, I tell her I already know. Laura and I don’t talk about operations or ears. Instead, we cram ourselves into the movie booth in the playroom and watch half-hour cartoons for a quarter. There’s room for just the two of us and our thighs touch and our knees knock together. It doesn’t matter that the cartoons are corny and babyish. It’s enough to be in the booth together. It’s enough to know someone else like us exists …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bda5106e74940e6756f7efb/1546445683464-2IWZE9WT9T6YO55PPEPH/window%252Bwrit.jpg Other Words - Kids of 7C longlisted for the CBC NonFiction Prize An excerpt from my memoir project, The Ear is a Heart, about the ownership and identity of a body medicalized from a young age. 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Laine on her back, legs loosening, legs hardening, rolling to her stomach, rolling to her side, and a long tube of — what, beef stroganoff? mangled muscle? — worming out of her mouth-face … ” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bda5106e74940e6756f7efb/1579581006256-0IFNJ65WLCMR571KQY2X/Screen+Shot+2020-01-20+at+11.28.39+PM.png Other Words - Your Smile is Crooked exhibited in Tapir Gallery Berlin When I was 13, a doctor traced my bottom lip with his pen and told me my smile was crooked. He suggested a series of surgeries to fix the “problem”. I declined, but spent the next several years trying to make my smile as small as possible. Other medical professionals have since spontaneously volunteered their opinions about my crooked mouth and I have learned to steel myself before seeing any new doctor. Last year I wrote a poem about these experiences. This past summer, I filmed it and the video was recently part of the Tapir gallery show in Berlin. 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She teaches creative nonfiction and expressive arts at George Brown College. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, The Humber Literary Review, Hobart, and the Best Canadian Essays 2024 Anthology. In 2025, she was named a CBC Writer to Watch. Her memoir, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, about her childhood medical experiences related to a missing ear is out now with Simon & Schuster Canada. 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