It Girl Corpse: Or, I Cut up the National Enquirer and Turned It Into Shitty Poetry

by Lizzy Sparks

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Lizzy Sparks is an English and creative writing major at Ohio State, where she has recently read for the annual Non/Fiction Prize. Her work appears in Sheepshead Review and is forthcoming in Mantis and Outrageous Fortune.