Short Stories
Girl Woman Monster
trigger warnings: menstruation, misogyny, sexualization of minors, sexual assault, violence against women, murder, body horror
The first time you are called a woman is the first time you bleed on your sheets. You are barely twelve, and your mother looks sad. Girlhood is too much of a sweet food to say goodbye to. You do not want to. You look at your bloodied sheets with contempt and hate. You wish you had hidden them, put them under your bed. You do not want to stop being a girl yet.