family cursesby Kleio Kwok | September 6, 2025after clytemnestra’s husband returns from the ten-year war, she hacks him to death with an axe. the resentment was yet another thing i’d taken from her. the bird that wasn’t a bird thrashed its way out of my liver and fell into his palm. a family of birds land on the branch above us. a bird is just a bird, but her pictures turn out blurry, as if she’s worried she’s dreamed them up.