Daphne stirred the next morning around eight-thirty. She woke her phone and scanned Instagram through a few minutes of mental grog, liking a self-portrait of stripper “Nadiaaa93” displaying the incandescence-rimed curve of her ass between scant red loops of graceful string. She flicked through a few more photos, one of a tall tree looming almost straight up in half-silhouette against the vividly blue sky. Another depicted a grimy car parked next to a bollard with the word “DIE” traced into the rear windshield’s dirt-patina. And the breath fled her lungs as the prior night’s blood pooled out again.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Daphne stirred the next morning around eight-thirty. She woke her phone and scanned Instagram through a few minutes of mental grog, liking a self-portrait of stripper “Nadiaaa93” displaying the incandescence-rimed curve of her ass between scant red loops of graceful string. She flicked through a few more photos, one of a tall tree looming almost straight up in half-silhouette against the vividly blue sky. Another depicted a grimy car parked next to a bollard with the word “DIE” traced into the rear windshield’s dirt-patina. And the breath fled her lungs as the prior night’s blood pooled out again.