Divya Maniar is a writer and dancer from Singapore. She studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Brown. Her work has been published in Joyland, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. More at www.divyamaniar.com.
When she swallowed, you could see, if you watched closely enough, a lump moving down her gullet and into the abyss of her impossibly beautiful body, infinitely and effortlessly more beautiful than mine.