N.K. Jemisin: "Dia sudah mati lagi ketika aku sampai di rumah hari itu...

"Dia sudah mati lagi ketika aku sampai di rumah hari itu. Mayatnya ada di dapur, dekat konter, di mana tampaknya dia memotong-motong sayuran ketika keinginan untuk menusuk dirinya sendiri melalui pergelangan tangan telah menghantam. Aku memakai darah yang masuk, yang membuatku jengkel karena itu berarti seluruh lantai dapur."

--- N.K. Jemisin

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.