March 15, 2023
Genesis 2:31
Stephanie Holden
and god saw every thing
that he had made, and
behold, it was very good
genesis 2:31
you are your own god re
born under a new
name on the sixth day
you took a rib from your
skeleton built a man of
your own creation;
molded him in the
likeness of someone you
have yet to meet a life
is a laborious thing to
create, and scars will
come and then will
fade but tomorrow is
the seventh day on
the seventh day you
will finally
rest
STEPHANIE HOLDEN (she/they) is a Halloween-loving queer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She writes about love, trauma, gore, and the self. Her interests are fantasy books, body modification, and the South. Find her work at or forthcoming in Ghost City Press, Kissing Dynamite, The B’K, Dollar Store Mag, Voidspace, Bullshit Lit, The Madrigal, and elsewhere, or her narcissistic tweets at @smhxlden.