Creative – Page 2

She

“Wrecked women / Screaming at us, in pain / And fear / But men sway to their hurt …”

“Seeing these words in his handwriting was the only truth that could have ever convinced me that I really was in an abusive relationship …”

“At my back the blade refracts. I feel the rush.”

“and as i tried to / close windows / in your head / i think i / instead / smashed them …”

“Victor Mott is perchance the worst salesman to ever exist. And yet, he’s perfect.”

“it’s not about my physical pain /
it’s the pain of their disbelief.”

“In the darkness, I still lie on my side of the bed. By doing that, you’re still here, sleeping next to me.”

This is an extract from the beginning of Kathryn’s debut novel Hitch, which will be published by Penguin Random House Australia in 2019.

“we laugh in our rummage sale kitchen / flat soda water mixed with room temperature despair / are we lost?”

“sometimes / i / waste —my time; / viciously, / craving / seductive.”