had to lose the notion of hellfire i wonder if you ever think of me, always i think of you; whether it be pink sunsets or white roses or vampires or kate bush or vnv nation or someone talking about repo! the genetic opera, there's always something to remind me— i felt bad our friendship ended without you knowing the truth, and i don't know if it makes a difference after our misunderstanding; but i loved you and i never knew how to tell you let alone admit it to myself— had to lose the notion of hellfire and fear of hell before i could realize that love was love, nothing more and nothing less; and certainly not something to be ashamed of.
Bio:
Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has eleven published chapbooks: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press – June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon – January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter Press, September 2017), splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018), More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019), the samurai (Yellow Arrowing Publishing, October 2020), Follow the Black Raven (Alien Buddha Publishing, July 2021), Unleashing the Archers (Guerilla Genesis Press, August 2021), Hecate’s Child (Alien Buddha Publishing, November 2021) and fat & pretty (Dancing Girl Press, June 2022), and three micro-chapbooks Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018), moon mother (Origami Poems Project, March 2020), and & so I believe (Origami Poems Project, April 2021). She is also the author of the novella Mates (Alien Buddha Publishing, March 2022).
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