You Give Me Butterflies

Makaila Keye's story, "You Give Me Butterflies," was selected a runner-up in Short Edition's Button Fiction, spring 2019 contest. Makaila, from Virginia, is a senior in high school. If she's not reading, she's writing, and if she's not doing either, it's probably the end of the world.

There's nothing I love more than eating. Mmm, yes. Fat Boy loves a good meal. I enjoy the crunch, the squish, even the quietest sizzles as I grind every little particle between my molars. I cherish the rhythm my jaws fall into as they punch up and drop and punch up and drop and punch up and drop. My tongue slithers between each crevice and crack within my mouth lustfully for the sweet nectar of my favorite snack. Only when I'm finished: when every leg has been sucked from between my teeth, when every wing has been scraped from the roof of my mouth, when every beady eyeball has been slurped and

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