M. B. Moorer
56 min readJul 23, 2019
Gender Maps/Pocket Universes by M.A. Schwartz

DEATH RATTLE

or (not) THE KELLY LINK STORY

#DeathRattle

The death rattle is full of teeth

and broken ear stones

baby’s breath and stolen words

Bits of dead cell phones

“It’s from the original Death Rattle,” Ben answers like Jessica asked. “Anabel hired someone to hack the server for the deleted file.”

M. B. Moorer

Work published at Tin House, Electric Lit, Hobart, The Offing, Future Fire, The Toast. I research for Roxane Gay. | melissamoorer.com