It’s been a pretty athletic performance, if I do say so myself, and as we finish I’m winded, just holding Jennifer close, and about to start kissing the salt off her neck when the birds pipe up at the window. All night we left it open to the breeze— more than warm already now […]
He is holding this grenade he’s found in the clammy fog of five am and he’s pulled the pin somehow on accident. To let it go will spring the lever. That, or he’s clasping an ornate doorknob, warm from fire in the room beyond, and he can’t decide if he should enter. Doing so might […]
the man remembers your body, remembers to love you again, flicks you like a switch waiting, ready in the room’s shadows. Loneliness rises from each reclaimed centimeter, a humiliating eagerness rushing you like a hound loosed in woods, your cry like baying or keening, months of waiting become sound. After, the man sleeps, peaceful, but […]
The football players, when accused of raping the drunk girl, said she had approached them, pulled their pants down and sucked their penises into her mouth. One claimed he was unable to achieve an erection despite her efforts. Another felt inappropriate, zipped up, and walked out. One was seen […]
In the beginning, every last one of them overshadows like a god. Their flesh, with its insistent power of resurrection, rends easily your inadequate membrane, silly shroud that surrenders as destiny is foisted upon you. A woman’s door is always ajar. A child makes itself at home, swelling you, as death does the […]
I’m one of those men, he told me with a crooked little smile, reaching gingerly across the space between us. Men you read about in history books, he said, as his right hand, the hand with one finger gone AWOL, vanished into the darkness up my skirt and crept beyond my underwear’s flimsy barrier. It […]
This one likes me best when I sit astride him, legs bent so knees push either side of his hips. I keep my eyes closed mostly but don’t mind that he watches my body, the grace of each easy collision. I like to think of twinkling lights, snow with no steps on it. I like […]
This is what became of the homely high school boy with the fine hands and big brain: he ended up sliding his fingers all day into the vaginas of other men’s wives. Expensive women who book six months ahead to take off their clothes for him. He keeps them waiting under a harsh light and […]