Twenty Questions (Eight, really. It's Never as Long as You Think)
A Short Story
Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary, Romance
| Author: | Merilyn Simonds | ISBN: | 9780994841858 |
| Publisher: | Merilyn Simonds Publications | Publication: | September 12, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Merilyn Simonds |
| ISBN: | 9780994841858 |
| Publisher: | Merilyn Simonds Publications |
| Publication: | September 12, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A whimsical, provocative romp through a woman’s life with penises.
Originally published in the anthology In the Flesh, edited by Lynne van Luven and Kathy Page, Brindle & Glass (2012).
I didn’t know what to expect. Not a pale, soft snail curled on a taut peach (peach because of the cleft, though it looked more like a rubber ball, it was that exact dull pink, the texture rough).
Want to see? he said and pulled wide the waistband of his shorts.
We were sitting cross-legged, face to face in the white hammock under the guava tree. (White, under that old fruit tree? Wouldn’t there have been stains?)
Now show me yours, he said…
A whimsical, provocative romp through a woman’s life with penises.
Originally published in the anthology In the Flesh, edited by Lynne van Luven and Kathy Page, Brindle & Glass (2012).
I didn’t know what to expect. Not a pale, soft snail curled on a taut peach (peach because of the cleft, though it looked more like a rubber ball, it was that exact dull pink, the texture rough).
Want to see? he said and pulled wide the waistband of his shorts.
We were sitting cross-legged, face to face in the white hammock under the guava tree. (White, under that old fruit tree? Wouldn’t there have been stains?)
Now show me yours, he said…
