"July Had Tried to Kill Them"

Jul 01, 2023

∙ Paid

From “The Black Body” series by visual artist Kendall Bessent (2020). I nicknamed these two models “Samuel and Isaiah” after the main characters in my novel, *The Prophets*.

“July had tried to kill them. First it tried to burn them. Then it tried to suffocate them. And finally, when neither of those things was successful, it made the air thick like water,…

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