Fiction

When the Buildings Began to Bleed

Their mistake was simple: They sent her body to the masjid

Vanessa Taylor
Human Parts
Published in
14 min readNov 3, 2019

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Downtown Minneapolis. Photo: Steijn Leijzer/Unsplash

We say her body was the seventh ’cause that’s what we could gather from records. Truth be told, she could’ve been the eighth. The 10th. The 20th. It both does and doesn’t matter.

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Vanessa Taylor
Human Parts

Vanessa Taylor is based in Philadelphia. She has work in outlets such as Teen Vogue, Racked, and Catapult Magazine. Follow her across social media @bacontribe.