No one ever told you the Minotaur was hung. You’d heard whispers, but always wondered if that was a little racist, like “all monsters are hung,” that kind of thing. But when you saw him for the first time?
You gaped. You stared. You felt small and you felt…was the reddening from shame or from sex?
You felt turned on.
Read MoreI am almost out of time in Paris. I keep my headset on and loop around back to the beginning of the museum, eager to see how big the crowds will have grown by the time I get back to the portico. It is when I am in the old drawing room, antique clocks and gold gilded moldings quivering in the firelight, that I start noticing the bleep bleep of walkie-talkies and the hushed exchanges of guards. My body registers this shift, mutating the space from museum to city building....
Read MoreDear Buwaya baby, Even a land can be jealous. Even a volcano can get sick of its own disruptions. It’s easy to find the fault lines. Pointed blame is just that. I’d never blame you, buwaya. The land rips open so that the ocean fish can get slick along the fissure. That atlas moth was employed to cover it up — a scapegoat with wings...
Read MoreThere’s a man in my neighborhood who comes to the park with his 5-year-old pet turtle named Herbert. He said I could touch Herbert and so I did. I touched his shell, rubbed it, and Herbert took his neck out of the neck shield and looked around and stretched before taking small steps. “He loves it,” said the man.
Falling in love with Herbert was instantaneous. Not slow. Steady? We shell see.
Read MoreHave you ever thought about going into business for yourself, the doctor asks while a gloved hand is inside me. She presses my uterus up left up center up right.
Her head pops up between my legs and I meet her eyes. Just a thought, she continues.
Ro Stastny is an artist and writer based in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 2014. Her fine arts training is limited to a few classes she took in high school, but she has been a practicing artist for most of her life. She is the owner of Rowan Shade Creative, a brand design + illustration studio.
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