My tongue is cardboard. Lex Luthor spills out as Lex Looper. My neck and face redden.
I begin to sweat, my brow and upper lip damp. The students kindly gaze up at the ceiling tiles.
A story is uninteresting if the protagonist has more power than the antagonist. The
inverse is also true. That’s why there’s Kryptonite.
My breasts feel as if they each have a case of the flu.
At home I avoid the winking steak knives in the kitchen drawer: oh so sharp and silver.
Have you ever studied your wrists? Veins are blue trails under a tender layer of snow.
Speaking with my neighbor, I break mid-sentence: There are so few blue flowers.
He knits his brows, follows my gaze to his hydrangeas.
I never knew blue could be beautiful.
Blue.
'Blue' by Rosemary Royston
Yasemin Asik (right) is an artist and illustrator. Originally a digital painter, she is now establishing herself in the game and film industry. She currently studies game and animation in Germany and works as a Lead Artist for CrashGem Studio's latest indie game project, Churbles.