Cold Cuts is a short story by Julia Pierpont that I have adapted visually for print and web. In it, the author recounts when she was sixteen and living with her elderly grandmother in New York City. After a hard fall, bruises begin to flower on her grandmother’s body, and the narrator reminsces on how her sagging skin and the brusies remind her of cold cuts of meat. I wanted to keep the color palette muted and serious, with references to colors usually found in bruises, and show the contrast in imagery and texture mentioned in the essay.