FETISH FASCINATION
i didn’t forget that you put my lips
on a witch trial
coated them in mint & venom
i asked about half-truths
it doesn’t matter If i cast a spell
or told you a lie,
the story,
just keeps getting better.
LAKE
in all of the movies,
the teens hang out at the lake
wide dark water
lovely & unforgiving
with so many secrets [if !supportLineBreakNewLine] [endif]
the ghosts the lake keeps i’m jealous of the noise
i never had that lake
to drown myself in.
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Stephanie Valente lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has published Hotel Ghost (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and has work included in or forthcoming from Danse Macabre, Nano Fiction, and Black Heart. Sometimes, she feels human.