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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

Goddamn right, they are taking Katya with them

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Edith Bow's avatar

I see the real cat this weekend. I'll take a picture.

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

YESSS!!!

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Nick Winney's avatar

I somehow let this slip my consciousness and didnt come back to it.

loving it...it's got your surreal ultra vivid word splurged palette of thought speak AND a dystopian post apocalyspe story... and in this one the Witch is awake.

Nothing else exists like your work Edith. Wish i could turn it into a painting and frame it so i could get it all into my eyes/head at the same instant. overload.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

I feel like you just crawled inside my mind and ripped out something

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Edith Bow's avatar

Tasty. I will give it back, I promise!

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Zivah's avatar

I feel like I’ve been turned inside out, reading this. The Witch, The Witch and a yearning for a cigarette that I’ve not had for a long time. There’s a plate of ribs on the back porch and they’ve been sucked clean.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Edith Bow's avatar

The Witch is also one of my favorites. I quit smoking cigarettes, can you tell? I am trying not to romanticize them though. It's a dirty world. Love your end line there. It's getting heavier. It's like tasting static.

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Zivah's avatar

I did wonder about your cigarette smoking status, it’s a weird existence, afterwards.

Tasting static… that’s made the insides of my cheeks tingle. Quite delicious.

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Edith Bow's avatar

I am on vape but, I will ween off that too when I start going back to gym. I will probably get a bracelet to snap myself with (and like it)

I want a pack of my favorite cigarettes in the freezer for bad days. But honestly, had a slip up last week and couldn't finish a whole one. It was a puff and then the immediate "ew" why did I do that?

I am allergic to all anti smoking things, gum, patches etc you name it. My body is very anti pharma. Maybe anti human. Tasting static is very human. All the sensors get revived.

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Zivah's avatar

I gave up cold turkey, with a few ‘we’ slip ups along the way. All those patches and things - nope.

Love the snap of the bracelet and like it! 😂

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Edith Bow's avatar

I mean whatever it takes. My grandmother died of lung cancer. We don't need a revival. I eat pretty good her diet was garbage.

I think I might get a LGBTQ+A wristband and snappy snappy away.

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Zivah's avatar

Love the wristband idea! And if it’s rainbow, it’ll be pretty too (can’t believe I said that, I’m not a ‘pretty’ person!).

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Edith Bow's avatar

I was never really a tie dye or rainbow girlie, but I hope it makes creepy dudes disappear into the wall while I work out, because I will start spouting amendments and quoting legislation if I get pissy enough. Of course I'll have a large creature behind me watching(Emil), but the whole reason I've avoided gyms is BECAUSE gym bros are relentless fucks. I much prefer the California gas station dwellers who profess poetic love to me as their eyes spin in different directions.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

This one smokes. This one is smoking. This is burnt meat. Good and charred. Charcoal with sinew in the middle. Thank you for the Afghan tea. I love this.

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Edith Bow's avatar

Just working on the feelers. Zero draft. Insanity. It will just get better and better.

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