V4V is amazing and made me laugh out loud
I liked the repetition of (ink) all throughout.
The cleansing is an interesting concept, getting rid of / having to physically cycle out old blood through nosebleeds and the mouth. I would never want to go through it myself…
“Absolutely catastrophic reading”, Alice laughed, pulling the Tower card out of a tarot deck. “Seven of swords, seven of wands, reversed Magician…” nah I would be preparing a funeral for whoever got that reading in real life
“And so the whole theatre came crashing down and all of the Etheldreds and Ethels and Adeles tumbled out of the backstage, all of them being a grand accusation against that new self which she wanted to create.“ I liked this imagery a lot! This is definitely my favorite line.
