Contributed By: Stephen Gibson
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely
and, so, to purchase someone to caress,
if not in flesh and blood, then in latex.
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely.
Girl-Who-Always-Smiles is an anomaly—
Girl-Who-Opens-Mouth is big business.
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely
and, so, to purchase someone to caress.
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It’s possible to loathe and desire the same thing. What the heart wants isn’t simple. It’s complex. In graphic novels heroines beg for it to sting. It’s possible to loathe and desire the same thing.…
The need to be restrained is a given— by rope, by ball-gag riding bit, by chain: the art of knot tying is not for everyone, but the need to be restrained? A given. Everyone understands…
She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news— she was buying a pack of smokes at the corner (not for herself, she didn’t smoke, for her father). She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news:…
Clo needs to believe she’ll help to end the war and, with those others she lives with in the Haight, that she’ll actually find peace and love forever. She’s run away with a girlfriend—this…
Opaline or starburst or emerald green— descriptors for barbus or brochis or gynmocorymbus. The bubble pump flares sidefins and whiskers. Aquarium fish appear as mechanical wind-up toys. They troll the bottom of pop-rock gravel. A floundering Butterfly Balloon Molly performs a sideshow for the children who muddy the clarity with their fingers or cause underwater earthquakes with a tap […]
I. Mugs are for coffee. Tea is served in china cups with handles too small to get your fingers through, on saucers, with a spoon, on a tray which also holds cream and sugar and (when you are very fortunate) scones and jam. Although these things are for you, they are not yours for the […]
It is said that McCullers remarked to a cousin about Lee, “Well, honey, one thing we know is that she’s been poaching on my literary preserves.”
