Hidden
If Yuca is Ys, who is this boy inside?
By: Rosethorn Li
Inside of him, there is everyone he has ever been; memories and presence together and apart. Not all of them clamer against the chains of their places to break free and be.
Not a lonely little boy named Ys.
Ys has never had a friend; he is afraid of people. He is a monster, possessed by one even darker than himself. He dreams of blood and a woman's tears, the bitter taste of cigarettes and his father's eyes, wide in horror.
There is nothing for Ys in the world beyond this 'Yuca'.
People want him. People want Ys and when Yuca stops thinking and is smiling and responds as if he is Ys...
It is better if he forgets that he ever existed as something separate.
I don't want to exist.
And, in the end, they both feel the same.
