
Beheaded
As a young woman, I fell in love with a man who owned a machete. He terrorized me for over a year. I have no doubt he would have killed me if I had stayed....
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Leni Leanne Phillips is an MFA candidate at the University of California at Riverside’s Palm Desert program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. She is a former blog editor for The Coachella Review and a former fiction and poetry editor for Byzantium. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Coachella Review, and elsewhere.