Water Cure, The

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You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can.Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this.Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game.You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely can.Suffering will prepare you for the worst. The cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this.Now, come outside. It's time to play the drowning game.
Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta magazine and TANK magazineamong others. The Water Cure is her first novel.