The Bluestocking 2023-24

Cheryl Chen Grade 11

A Retrospective: Season 1 of The Walking Dead After Carmen Maria Machado

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Careful. Like the living, the dead are naked. Later, clothes will start to fade and skin will not matter. Later, skin will start to fade and flesh will not matter. Later, flesh will start to fade and—bone. Bone the color of cream and the ashen scene. Bone will remember the body, once wrapped around it like a fist. I can tell you this: Names will not matter. A man and a woman in the woods. He licks her stomach, but you will not see her body. She is left wearing her underwear, but you will not see her body. Later, he will try to rape her while she is reading, but you will not see her body. A deer is standing in the woods. It is perverse, both animal and healthy. Later, its body will be a blood-flume. Later, its body will slow a bullet for a boy. Its ghost will stay with the boy for the longest time. Every time, it will block the bullet. Every time, it will grunt at its failure to block the grief. “Days Gone Bye”: It begins with two men in a car. Good Cop, Bad Cop. They love each other, but not in the way you expect. In a graceless hospital room, Bad Cop will take Good Cop’s hand and later, his wife. Later, in nightfallen field, Good Cop will stab Bad Cop’s heart like a Victorian lover. Above them the moon, terrible. Behind them the boy, terrible. His tiny hands shoot Bad Cop when he rises from the dead. He does not tremble. For now the two men love each other with their teeth. Like the walkers, bone-bared and snarling. “Guts”: A man is handcuffed to a rooftop. Good Cop will not kill him. Instead, he gives him a body. The man, in chains, screams. Later, 20