I wear a hair shirt coarse strands scratch my nipple my belly streaked in blood channels to the dead stinking gullies where
more loveAuthor: Chella Courington
Chella Courington is a cis, bisexual woman born and raised in Southern Appalachia in a storytelling family who taught her how to value the word. Courington’s creative publications include one novel, one novella, several chapbooks of poetry and fiction, and poems and stories in journals and anthologies. Her fiction and poetry have been nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poetry, and Best Short Fiction. With teaching as her livelihood, she moved from Montgomery, Alabama, to Santa Barbara, California, twenty years ago, giving her the space and distance to understand her past.