The Tick
As if it were possible to feel like a tick, she thought that for a while she had been one. Like a tick that, against its will, is taken out from its animal. She felt like a tick that after being taken out is burnt with paraffin, making noises, writhing, stinking. She was home-alone, and she could sob. She had cried before, but silently; not without tears, but silently. How relieving it was to be a tick for a while.