Contributed By: Stephen Gibson
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.
In storyboards, tentacles surround their necks.
What gender do you think is doing the drawing?
It’s possible to loathe and desire the same thing.
What the heart wants isn’t simple. It’s complex.
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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…
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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:…
Before meeting Phil and Elizabeth, I’d hypothesized that longings for pity, care, or power might motivate or inform BIID desires.
I would have liked to flee to Marie, who would have driven this person from the city with a single brief appearance. But even the moon with its pocked face wanted, it seemed to me during this night, to mock me from a distance and to proclaim to me that I, too—as if in the […]
The muffled sound of the fruit as it carefully breaks from a branch, amid the incessant chant of the silence, deep in the woods. 1908 Return to table of contents for Issue 3 Fall 2010
