Dominik Parisien: Survival Is Sinking

Dominik Parisien: Survival Is Sinking
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niece with a peach following four minutes of Planet Earth

 

nails & plastic cutlery

cut & stab & tear

the skin

 

at three she has teeth

like a beast & the instinct

to mutilate

 

understands implicitly she

is a predator at the dinner table

& survival is sinking

 

herself tooth & nail &

plastic tools deep

into fuzzy little things


Dominik Parisien's work can be found in places such as The Fiddlehead, Uncanny Magazine, Plenitude, Strange Horizons, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He is the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award, as well as other anthologies. His latest project is Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.