The tornado is sexy, sultry, a slut. She sucks up everything in her path. Since she was born, since she touched down seven minutes ago, in a midwestern prairie, she has known her purpose: to consume. To get thick and...
She Sucks
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Skyler Melnick
Skyler Melnick is a 2025 - 2026 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, with an MFA from Columbia University. She writes about ghost girls, guillotines, and women falling from the sky. Her work appears in Wigleaf, Fairy Tale Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere, with support from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
To The Tower
There are six of them. No, seven. They cycle out of the tower and into the night, following their headmistress. Their headmistress wears a habit. The girls wear cloaks, cloaks to hide their hunger. I cannot tell you...