“I met a boy and he told me a story. There was a lady long ago who spent her life coughing up feathers. And one day when she was gnarled and gray, she stretched from a woman into a black… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“But in the night I slept and I dreamed of feathers in my lungs. So many I choked on them. I woke coughing and… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“Forget dying. I suddenly wanted to inflict pain. My anger was a living, breathing thing controlling my body, making me shake. It was funny… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“I met a boy and he told me a story. There was a lady long ago who spent her life coughing up feathers. And… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
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