We made movies about horror flicks and giving natural childbirth. We didn’t have a real baby, so we used my dad’s ornery chihuahua.
Hybrid Poem by Kate Bias
Art by Kiki Ren
We Were Thirteen
It’s strange the passage of time. I grew up on a corner. Country road. My friends lived a mile in each direction and would meet at my house for sleepovers. It was always seven girls. Jacia (Yasha) had long blonde hair and hips like razor blades. She was always catching them on corners of tables and things when she moved too fast. In the wee hours of the night, we dressed up like prostitutes in slips and my mom’s high heels like extras in a movie and picked each other up. We made movies about horror flicks and giving natural childbirth. We didn’t have a real baby, so we used my dad’s ornery chihuahua. We still have footage of him charging out of those bloody sheets attacking everyone like Rosemary’s baby. Jenny was a fast one. She didn’t know how beautiful she was. Later that year, she was killed instantly in a drunk driving accident. A car full of boys. We were thirteen.
About the Author
Kate’s writing is a reflection of her readers – mainly men. Though she rarely speaks to them, they provide inspiration for Kate’s art. Every word is true in the figurative or literal.
About the Artist
Kiki is best described as 45% Elvira, 45% Dolly Parton, and 10% Danny Devito. Though she’s always been a lover of all forms of art, technology has always been her forte. She studied computer science for four years before dropping out and coasting through life in various retail management positions. That’s until she found her true calling: being an embarrassment to her family online. When she’s not whipping up websites or blessing the world with memes and generative art she’s hunting for oddities at thrift stores or reading the most disturbing pieces of experimental fiction she can find.
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