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‘After Brianna 2023’ by Eleanor James Sharpe

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Trigger warnings: transphobia, depression, death

After Brianna 2023 I am breaking governments in my sleep. I am gluing once beloved authors to their screens and writing invoices to their solicitors. I am huge. I am everything that everyone wants to talk about all of the time. I am in mourning. I am afraid that I will always be  in mourning. I am selfish. I want the world to break  just for me. I want the world to end just for me. I cry  revolution in the streets and I am afraid to walk outside. So, what can I do but lay on my lover’s floor,  listening to Lift Yr. Skinny Fists and hope         that I don’t die? 
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About the author

Eleanor James Sharpe is a transfemme writer, poet, and comedian based in the UK. Her work has been featured in Eunoia Review and Last Closet on The Left, and Tadpole Press among others. She also writes about herself a lot because it’s the only one she has. She lives in Nottingham with her wife and son.

Photo by Matt Baron-Thompson on Unsplash.

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