#29 Fiction

They sit together in school. They ride their bikes towards the hills and watch them smoulder. The Stepfather cooks boiled eggs for breakfast and Velvet sticks them in her pocket to feed to the birds.

Once I read in a girl’s magazine that all women should familiarise themselves with their vulvas, for situations exactly like this. I never did. If anyone else did, no one talked about it.

How can water be so clear. She reaches down to feel it and the cold is so shocking it is almost sexual. Drinking water after chewing gum so it aches