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The King Tiffany Reisz 14960K 2023-09-03

"Drugs?"

"They’d give us cas and make us watch lesbian porn Cunts on the screen Puke on the floor We casley tried to take Sahtly he could do nothing but place his hand on top of hers

"Even though ere so busy with all these delightful and wholeso with sarcasm and barely restrained fury, " and sane Whenever we’d see each other hisper our code words--More weight"

"More weight? What did that mean?"

"Some fundies consider lesbianis Just ask Pat Robertson So when I heard that, I decided to learn about witchcraft like your typical disaffected queer teenager"

"I was a disaffected queer teenager"

"What did you do?"

"Slept with another disaffected queer teenager"

"Why didn’t I think of that? Oh, wait, I did" Saain, and neither of thehed anymore "I read this book about the witch hunts in colonial times The law said a person couldn’t be put on trial until they’d entered a guilty or not-guilty plea This man, Giles Corey, was accused of witchcraft, but he refused to put in a plea The court had apeople to enter pleas They’d lay them on a board, put a board on top of the the person They did this to Giles Corey On went the weight, they’d stop, ask for his plea--guilty or not guilty And his response was ‘More weight’ He said it again and again and then finally ‘More weight’ were his last words They killed hiot hiht’ thatit on The pain The tortures We don’t care They’ll neverThey were the guilty ones’"

Kingsley wanted to speak, wanted to stay soth had humbled him into silence

"After a ress was ‘unsatisfactory,’ and ould have to stay another ood one We broke into the clinic and found all the pills we could find"

Kingsley gave up on Saainst hiainst the center of his chest, and Kingsley put an ar

"We held each other until ht now I don’t knoe decided to wait until dawn Maybe anted to see a sunrise one last time But at daallowed the pills and washed them doith mineral water--like you do Tentwentythirty pills And we shivered and burned and it felt like our skin was on fire And then we slept Two girls fell asleep One girl woke up"