Sarah Stahl
Time For You to Leave
My whisper, thin as rice-paper, abjured the line of action. One flimsy objection: stop. You cannot fix this erotic clockwork. These springs and cogs require concentration. You think one clever screw would set me ticking but my gears are meshed intricate as a ruined Rubik's Cube and hands which work too coarse will only do more damage. You'd see that if you studied with a loupe.
Sarah Stahl's work has appeared in Open Minds Quarterly, Epitome, and the Ohio newspapers The Marion Star and the Telegraph-Forum. She is working towards an MFA in creative writing and hopes to teach creative writing to women who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or who are indigent or mentally ill.
