A man taught me how to gut a fish while my mother was inside cleaning his house. I don’t remember the blood, only the cornsilk-colored eggs he scooped out with a glittering silver spoon and the fried flesh melting in my mouth that night, becoming a part of me.
Sydney Faith
Sydney Faith is a Midwestern writer and poet. Drawing on a childhood of rural adventures and strange occurrences, her work explores emotional haunting and healing through the mundane and magical. She has been previously published in Blood Orange Review and Déraciné.