The Pompeii Premise
About Anita Felicelli
Anita Felicelli’s short story collection, Love Songs for a Lost Continent, is forthcoming from Stillhouse Press in October 2018. She is also the author of a poetry collection, Letters to an Albatross (BlazeVOX). Her short stories have appeared in The Normal School, Joyland, Kweli Journal, Eckleburg, Strangelet, and Stockholm Review. She has contributed essays and reviews to the New York Times (Modern Love), Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.
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I was pretty sure from what I’d heard in church that if I did black magic then I’d be cursed by God. Just look at what happened to Kurt.
It was hairless and white, without visible scarring. It looked like there had never been an arm there at all, as if this were just a different way for a body to be constructed. It possessed a peaceful aura, Quinn thought.
When someone you’ve had sex with hundreds of times compares you to a flimsy, transparent mechanism made for stopping insects, you have to examine yourself.