"She has a scar that trails down her left eye, back to her left ear. The scar looks like one tear crying. Sometimes, lightning strikes twice."

Ian Crutcher Castillo is a writer living in Brooklyn and sometimes Madrid. He can be found online @_ian_castillo.

I AM MARKED SAFE originally appeared on the XRAY website: https://xraylitmag.com/i-am-marked-safe-by-ian-crutcher-castillo/fiction/

Music by ponyboy: https://soundcloud.com/ponyboyict