One Creature Devouring Another

Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “One Creature Devouring Another” by Alicia Lim. Alicia is an artist, writer, and labor organizer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in KHÔRA. She is currently obsessed with horseshoe crabs and bog bodies, and has recently become completely enamored with ceramics. You can find her artwork at alicialim.com. Boar With Wolf by Alicia LimI. Night falls, spreads. A woman with dark hair and dark eyes opens the door to the last room she will occupy and walks through it. She turns on the light, which glows a soft yellow overhead. She sits on the bed and pulls the gun out of her bag. It lies on her lap like a sleeping cat.The woman with dark hair lifts the gun with her right hand. She levels the barrel at her right temple. The trigger feels cool against her warm finger. She fires. Everything is red. In that moment, she excavates a new intracranial pathway, a conduit carved…