How To Survive This Fairytale

Chapter 12

FORGET EACH FACE.

Each round jaw. Each angular jaw. Each sharp nose.

Each wide nose. Each brown eye, blue eye, green eye, gray eye, hazel eye—short-lashed and long-lashed, thick-browed and slender-browed alike.

Each braid, each bun, each red- brown- flaxen- black- straight- curly- wavy- long- short-haired head.

All the pale tan brown dark light unblemished skin.

Each (un)freckled cheek. Each plump lip.

Thin lip. Each smile with a space between her teeth.

Stop it. Stop. Don’t think of them. Don’t.