Larissa Pham is an artist and writer from the Pacific Northwest. She is a regular contributor to Full Stop Magazine and has been previously published at Gawker, Salon, and Nerve. You can find her on twitter at @lrsphm.
There was the butterfly knife. The idea of it, not the thing in reality—sleek, wicked-edged, the same kind of knife you once asked to borrow because you were walking home alone and you wanted to be the most dangerous thing out there.