Perfection Kills
No one gut-punches me harder than I do. Seeing my misty eyeglasses, crinkled spelling test paper in fist, my mother says: but you only missed one. Isn’t one failed organ enough to make a body a corpse?
Preeti Talwai writes from the California coast, where she is also a research executive in the technology industry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Typehouse Magazine, and Unbroken, among others, and her fiction is held at U.C. Berkeley's Rare Book Collection. Her chapbook, Chronic is forthcoming from Bottlecap Press.
See more of Preeti's work in 13.3