A Good Little Girls Zine

Your expectations rise from the phone, attach easily to the insides of my elbows: a leech draining blood—a steady pulse of “I wish you were’s” and “I wish you would’s”.

Weak from the loss of blood, I sit up, find my armor: Audre, Maya, Alice, Maxine, Rupi. I glance at the inside of my elbow and scrape at the slimy organism of lies and distortions and remember:

The power and shape and love of a woman who walks in the crimson pool of her full identity, unwilling to accommodate it for others,

A pillar of powerful posture who is so easily concealed in the light of day.

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Sonia Chintha

Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.

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