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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
"She loves you in the way she can...I tried not to think about the ways she couldn't, the ways she never would except perhaps in the place between dream and daylight, in the split second between here and gone."
"Something about me I knew was no longer true - something about what my body was for, or rather what some men would expect and demand from my body in return for opening a door, for letting me in. It was not the first time those demands had been made; it was the first time I had agreed to them. I had agreed with my silence; since I had agreed, I told myself I had wanted it." :(
"[We] held up our middle fingers, held them up for a good long time. We held them up at him, and at all of them, all the men who had tried to take our bodies and our names and sell them back to us for less."
"'I don't think I'll ever get married,' George said, as though this had nothing to do with me. 'I don't see kids in my future.' Once drunk enough, I asked him where I was in his future - if I was. 'You can come with me wherever I go,' he said. Then he added, 'If you want.' This choice I was granted, it was one I did not want to be given. I wanted us to be inevitable."
"Something about me I knew was no longer true - something about what my body was for, or rather what some men would expect and demand from my body in return for opening a door, for letting me in. It was not the first time those demands had been made; it was the first time I had agreed to them. I had agreed with my silence; since I had agreed, I told myself I had wanted it." :(
"[We] held up our middle fingers, held them up for a good long time. We held them up at him, and at all of them, all the men who had tried to take our bodies and our names and sell them back to us for less."
"'I don't think I'll ever get married,' George said, as though this had nothing to do with me. 'I don't see kids in my future.' Once drunk enough, I asked him where I was in his future - if I was. 'You can come with me wherever I go,' he said. Then he added, 'If you want.' This choice I was granted, it was one I did not want to be given. I wanted us to be inevitable."