Amy Feltman is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Fiction at Columbia University. She has been published in
The Rumpus
and interviews forthcoming in
The Believer
and
Electric Literature
.
First, stop eating. It’s easy because the flavors hurt: the shock of cinnamon atop pumpkin spice latte, the harsh curl of cilantro in an otherwise bland bowl of Vietnamese noodles. It’s easy because it feels like control, and your body will thank you with the amelioration of cramps, of crinkling pain in your stomach, to the left and right of your stomach like the less desirable regions surrounding a bull’s eye. Your body