When The Buildings Began To Bleed

At the end of the day, their mistake was simple: they sent her body to the masjid.

Vanessa Taylor
Nov 3 · 14 min read
Image: downtown Minneapolis. Photo by Steijn Leijzer on Unsplash

We say her body was the seventh ’cause that’s what we could gather from records. Truth be told, she could’ve been the eighth. The tenth. The twentieth. It both does and doesn’t matter.

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Vanessa Taylor

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Vanessa Taylor is based in Philadelphia. She has work in outlets such as Teen Vogue, Racked, and Catapult Magazine. Follow her across social media @bacontribe.

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