We Want Our Bodies Back
written by: FC Malby
@fcmalby
In memory of David Carrick’s survivors (they are not victims, they are survivors)
We want our bodies back
the flesh you took
thinking it was yours
for the keeping.
We want our bodies back
the ones you thought you
owned, like a play thing
a game of cat and mouse.
We want our bodies back
they are not for sale
and they do not belong
to you or your desires.
We want our bodies back
because you thought that
by dehumanising us it would
make your fragile ego stronger.
We want our bodies back
because you didn’t hear
our no, didn’t ask, and
because they are sacred.
F.C. Malby is a contributor to Unthology 8 and Hearing Voices: The Litro Anthology of New Fiction. Her debut short story collection, My Brother Was a Kangaroo includes award-winning stories, and her debut novel, Take Me to the Castle, won The People's Book Awards. Her short fiction has been longlisted in The New Writer Magazine Annual Prose and Poetry Prizes by David Gaffney, and won the Litro Magazine Environmental Disaster fiction competition. Her stories have also been published online in Litro Magazine, Ether Books, Spontaneity Magazine, 1000 Words, Flash Fiction Magazine, Paragraph Planet, Flash Flood Journal, The Puffin Review, Vending Machine Press, Friday Flash Fiction, Ellipsis Zine, The Drabble, Spelk Fiction, Fictive Dream and Train Lit Magazine.
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