I Would Have Known You Anywhere

Avra Margariti is a queer Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. "I Would Have Known You Anywhere" is in Short Circuit #06, Short Édition's quarterly review.

How do immortals recognize each other, you ask? By our palimpsest of scars and wrinkles, every inch of skin marked by the shooting of stars, the spinning of the Earth yielding under similarly marred fingertips. By the taste of our mouths, the dust of fallen empires, dead dinosaur cells, and myriad wines' noble rots embedded in the ridges of our tongues sucked clean at last. By the look in our eyes, a glimmer sharp as the edge of a knife that has cut through tender flesh and ripe strawberries alike. A knife that slices you a homecoming feast.

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