Pierced

by

Tracie McBride

Grandpa mutters,
There’s mysterious goings-on next door.
He doesn’t understand
the neighbor’s
electric-blue hair,
death-black lips,
metal-skewered flesh;
one man’s beauty
is another’s
mutilation.
He tires of listening
to her screams,
sound swirling
beyond
the bounds
of concrete walls.
A door opens,
a skull splits,
instead of blood,
Light flows.

 

 

 

 

Tracie McBride is a mother of three from New Zealand. She has a diploma in creative writing and is a member of the Wellington-based Phoenix Science Fiction Writers’ Group. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in various electronic, print and podcast publications, including Pulp Net, Gambara, Electric Velocipede, Bound Off, Bravado and T-Zero.

 

 

 

 

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