Listen to our audio presentation of “She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow” by Sam Fleming. Narrated by Lisa Shininger.
Sam Fleming
Sam Fleming’s work has appeared in Black Static, Fish from Dagan Books, and Looking Landwards from NewCon Press. She lives in northeast Scotland with an artistic spouse and the correct number of bicycles, that being both entirely too many and not quite enough. Find her at ravenbait.com.
She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow
Chancery hissed at the sudden pain of a splinter in her palm. She took a deep breath filled with the scent of dust and woodsap, and exhaled the hurt as steam to dissipate in the cold air.