Romance
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I Knew You Were Still My Problem
Her hand was flat against my chest, feeling the heart rate I couldn't lie about, while the party roared behind us like a jet engine.
Why Did You Wait Five Years to Call Me?
The studio smelled of ozone and expensive dust, a sterile environment where he planned to dissect me with a high-definition lens.
Vivian's Montblanc
The way she unzips that dress is a procedural nightmare, a slow-motion violation of every ethics seminar I’ve sat through since the Bar.
Station Four
Her skin tasted like the sea, which was a lie, because we were in the middle of the Tuscan hills, miles from any coast.
Did You Really Expect Me to Believe You Had Never Used a Pasta Press Before?
I watched the way your thumb smoothed over the flour on the marble, a rhythmic, unconscious erasure of everything but our immediate proximity.
Leave Your Ring in the Car
The jazz is a jagged thing tonight, all elbows and sour notes, but you are steady as a cast-iron skillet.
Watch the Perimeter
You tasted like copper and rain and that cheap lime seltzer you’d been nursing since the sun went down over the main stage.
Willa's Bracelet
The clasp snagged on the cuff of my jacket, a tiny silver anchor keeping us moored in a room full of people we both despised.
Gauge
I could feel the vibration of the tracks through her hip bones, a steady thrumming that made every slide of my hand feel like a confession.
The Salt Cave
I told him the mud wrap was a spiritual cleansing, but I really just wanted to see if his composure would crack under the silt.
—but you're the one holding the light meter
She’s standing there in that silk slip looking like a tactical error I’m about to make with my eyes wide open.
Did You Ever Get the Ice Out of Your Coat?
He smelled like the cold air of Union Station and expensive wool, a combination that made my throat tighten like a poorly drafted non-compete.