Sarah Fannon is a graduate of George Washington University's Honors English and Creative Writing program and she continues to live in the DC area. She attended the One Story Summer Writers Conference in 2019, and her work is featured or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Diabolical Plots, Dark Moon Digest, Divination Hollow Reviews, The NoSleep Podcast, and elsewhere. You can find her on:
Twitter @SarahJFannon,
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Siren Song
I was taught to unravel boys
so they quiver like fish and crash their ships.
It brings me little joy except to watch
the gentle sails fold into the water.
The girls bend forward,
curls tickling the sailors’ necks.
They kiss the almost drowned,
craving the taste of death.
Maybe the boys too. I’ve never asked.
I sunbathe on my own rock,
stare at the girls who lick their pretty lips,
and I ache for each pink shape.
When they begin to sing again,
I wish I wasn’t immune to our serenade.
Then I could be unraveled,
sink to the ocean floor with the taste
of their song in my mouth.