Flesh Wounds (excerpt)

"Maybe this time you'll actually try."

Here’s the thing no one tells you about school “health class” and every book I ever read about menstruation: they lie.  Or rather, they oversimplify, which might as well be lying.  Nothing was happening the way I was told it would.  The sputter-start of my first period happened when I was 13.  It was a few days of brownish splotches on the cotton crotch…