Words with Pictures

Words with Pictures

Words with Pictures is a weekly two-part post that pairs photographers and writers. The first week, a writer is given a photograph to inspire the creation of a new piece of writing. The following week the photographer is given a piece of writing and responds with a new photographic piece. This series is curated by Conveyor Editor Dominica Paige.

Evan Rehill and Dominica Paige {Part 1}

I could murder her right now. I just got off the graveyard.  My eyes are bloodshot and sore from the cigarettes and too much coffee.  There’s a rip in my stocking.  My uniform has a gravy stain over the heart.  I’m nineteen years old and feel dead already.  I’m walking home when I see her in the vines.  Two skinny legs, a plastic sword.  Sixteen years old and still thinks the world is make-believe.  The world will make you believe, I tell her and she looks out a window while I smoke at the kitchen table, counting tips.  Then she picks up her little-kid sword and goes out slaying dragons and knights in shiny armors.  A sister is a terrible thing to have.  I want to go to her, fall on her sword and smack her awake already.  But I don’t.  I keep going through the vines, pretend she doesn’t exist.   

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Evan Rehill’s work has been published in Open City, American Short Fiction, Instant City, and 14 Hills.  He teaches at Pratt Institute and Rutgers University.  Robotic arms:{www.evanrehill.com}

Dominica Paige works as an editor for Conveyor and curates Words with Pictures.  She wanted to get in on the fun, too. {www.dominicapaige.com}