“I claim you like a pebble on a beach. You are a smooth weight in my hand carried for a period of pleasure then forgotten, captive in a dusty bottom drawer.”
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Back Here.
“Then, I see your face and I no longer have any desire to fight for my next breath. Your touch burns my skin. I feel your fist against my cheekbone.”
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She
“Wrecked women / Screaming at us, in pain / And fear / But men sway to their hurt …”
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A Letter to Survivors
“Seeing these words in his handwriting was the only truth that could have ever convinced me that I really was in an abusive relationship …”
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Easter
“At my back the blade refracts. I feel the rush.”
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Munting Behind The Shed
“and as i tried to / close windows / in your head / i think i / instead / smashed them …”
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Of Bookshelves and Barometers
“Victor Mott is perchance the worst salesman to ever exist. And yet, he’s perfect.”
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Imagining
“it’s not about my physical pain /
it’s the pain of their disbelief.”
I Still Wanted To Love You Until The End
“In the darkness, I still lie on my side of the bed. By doing that, you’re still here, sleeping next to me.”
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Hitch
This is an extract from the beginning of Kathryn’s debut novel Hitch, which will be published by Penguin Random House Australia in 2019.
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