Sweet Terror
The way he gripped the stem of that Zinfandel glass made me want to be the glass, breakable and clear and desperate for his mouth.
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The way he gripped the stem of that Zinfandel glass made me want to be the glass, breakable and clear and desperate for his mouth.
He looked at me like a breach of contract I couldn't litigate my way out of, all sawdust and winter wind.
Her spine had this perfect, lateral curve as she reached for the railing, a mobilization of the thoracic vertebrae that made my own breath hitch.
Her skin was coated in that fine, glittery festival dust that gets into everything—your lungs, your gear, your memories.
I was a tourist in his tragedy, standing in a limestone cellar that smelled of old wood and new sins.
His thumb hooked into her lace, the tension between them snapping like a high-tension wire in a Santa Ana wind.
The compartment smelled of rain-slicked wool and the kind of expensive gin that tastes like you’re licking a primary-growth pine forest.