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Incubation
Callum McLaughlin
She incubates a voice woven through time from layer upon layer of swallowed words.
Fearing a destiny of deafened ears and a lifetime hiding in the hollows of their bones, she
saves it for her sisters; a gift of warning brought about through the siege of her body, his
fantasies outweighing evidence of bloody stumps where once her wings stood proud.
“When ships break waves upon the horizon, girls, I beg you drown yourselves in dignity and
ice, lest the fire of man try to burn everything you are, reducing you to nothing but an
offering of fine, soft ash carried from his hands like a whisper in the breeze.”