ACT IV

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❝the green-eyed boy in the powder-blue t-shirt standing next to you in the supermarket recoils as if hit, repeatedly, by a lot of men, as if he has a history of it. that is not your problem. you have your own body to deal with. the lamp by the bed is broken. you are feeling things he's no longer in touch with. everyone is speaking softly, so as not to wake one another. the wind knocks the heads of the flowers together. steam rises from every cup at every table at once. things happen all the time, things happen every minute that have nothing to do with us.❞
a primer for the small weird loves, richard siken: section five.

in which madeleine aetos finally meets her appointment with hell, the same fate waiting for her since age fifteen. she did not know she would ever go down this way, but is it better than her brother got, at least.

ACT IV: THE HOUSE OF HADES




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