TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Elise Wilk

past her bra but that she’d keep flori posted and let her know when it happened when I read that ugly pencil-written letter it was the first time in my life that I felt real envy I longed for an ugly pencil-written letter I realized that the musical postcard wasn’t beautiful and that I’d cried in vain when I received it because it wasn’t real

MAX : that day was the first time emma felt pain not the big and cold jelly-fish kind of pain that would engulf you sometimes in the evening not the tiny shards of glass kind of pain that you feel creeping under your skin when you are sad it was real pain like a black rocket bursting out of you at the speed of thousands of kilometres per second

cracking your chest open and leaving a hole behind

While MAX is talking, GERD tries to give him an awkward hug. EMMA clings on tohim. GERD pushes her away just as awkwardly.

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