Author: Laura Moseley
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What’s Bugging You?
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is my response to one of the most interesting writing prompts I’ve ever responded to: “An exterminator is called to a house for an infestation of memories. These memories are nested in the walls, chewing through the floorboards, and leaving droppings of half-forgotten faces everywhere. The exterminator gets to work…” ——– Carl…
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My Body, Rewritten
I didn’t get tattooed to be beautiful. I got tattooed to be untouchable. There’s a difference. Beauty is an invitation. Untouchable is a boundary. And after nearly two decades of marriage that felt more like captivity, I was done being anyone’s open door. I decided—somewhere between survival and that night he nearly erased me—that if…