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Elina Bystritskaya |
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by Jac Jemc
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Elina Bystritskaya was a woman they only saw peripherally.
People feared setting their sights directly on her, perhaps because she was so beautiful, perhaps because her gaze tended too easily toward their own. Or maybe it was that her hair was crows and that behind those eyes there was all that cawing which might pierce them through.
She died young. Stepping off her front porch one summer night, a spider web fixed itself to her sweaty skin and she began to shriek. And then the sound of all those crows as the neighbors turned to see what the matter was.
Just like the girl in the old scary story, just like the knife through her skirt and the grave, Elina collapsed to the ground.
Suddenly everyone could look and they didn’t know how.
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Jac Jemc makes monsters and writes in Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hotel St. George, Sleepingfish, Handsome, Bird Dog, Circumference, Tarpaulin Sky, Zoland, The Denver Quarterly, and elimae. You can view her recent rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.
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