American Literary Magazine
beautiful things Annie Przypyszny Do you want beautiful things? There’s a man you can marry who will give you beautiful things. He’s an older man, with many things, beautiful and otherwise, to spare: his late wife’s white gold watch, his late wife’s South Sea pearls, his late wife’s Hermès scarf, the one with a Bengal tiger on it that’s only perceptible when laid out flat. He’ll tell you you’re young, and thus you deserve beautiful things—but fair must be fair. How do you show your gratitude? With fingers, mouth? A deep, full purr? He’s looking for a ghost. All you have to do is become a ghost.
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