by Meg Elison
Published in Mar. 2021 (Issue 102) | 514 words
© 2021 by Meg Elison.
I was thinking about the power of Frankenstein not to raise the dead and become like god, but to redress the unjust nature of death (femicide in particular) to make god irrelevant. I was thinking about how not all women bear children, and some of us make people in other ways. How we all make each other. How we’re all riding the lightning, just staying alive. And then there was a poem.
—ME
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