The Girl Who Spoke Spiders

Sara Amis lives in Pine Lake, Georgia where she writes poetry, fiction, and local news. Her work has previously appeared in Stone, River, Sky: An anthology of Georgia poets, Rolling Stone and The Saturday Evening Post. "The Girl Who Spoke Spiders" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.

I don't recommend it. You might wind up like me, with spiders on your lips, crawling out like words. I never meant to offend. I just never understood how the other one, my sister, got everyone to smile at her. She was nothing to look at. I stood her up side by side with me, our faces next to each other in the one small mirror. Plain and brown-haired, oh! The freckles! Yet, the very birds would come down to take crumbs from her hand. I could not understand it. When she came back from winter's house, rubies falling from her mouth and telling that tale, I thought, At last. Here is something I can

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