My Throat an Open Grave By Tori Bovalino EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author Name: Tori Bovalino
- Book Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy
- Series Detail:
- ISBN # 9781645679301
- ASIN # B0C1X7HLFL
- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: February 20, 2024
- PDF File Size: 2.7 MB
- EPUB File Size: 4.2 MB
When I think of purity, I don’t think of the water that runs in the river past our
backyard, or the water in the baptism font at the front of the church, where
my mother and father and their mothers and fathers were baptized, all the
way back; where I was baptized too. I don’t think of the clean white sheets
on my bed or the innocent face Owen has when he’s drifting off to sleep.
When I think of purity, I think of the bathtub; of cramming myself all the
way in, all the way to the bottom, of squinching my eyes shut and opening
my mouth and letting the water run in to clean me from the inside out. I
think of screaming—but even more often, I think of inhaling. Letting go.
I haven’t let myself think about it too much, not since last year, when the
slope was too slippery and I was in danger of falling. Now, the last breath of
summer is hot on my cheek through the window of my history class, and
there’s a fly buzzing against the glass, and for the first time in a while, I again
find myself thinking of drowning.
The thought is interrupted by a paper slipped under my arm, onto my
desk. I peek down. It’s from Jess, the only one who I’m back on regular terms
with again. Few others were so keen to take me back in after last year, when I
was pulled out for homeschooling;
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