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Who else will love you?

by  Jordan789

Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009
Word Count: 100
Summary: I wrote about 9 of these little flash dribbles. Involving everything from a duchess who goes poor to a boy scout who gets duct taped to a tree, and then there's this one.




We violated ourselves on a nightly basis to a sound track of ritualistic moans and a mix of Gershwin and Mozart. This lasted for six months.

I had savored her skin, the way it bled when tickled with a razor; I savored her clavicle, like the curve of a harp under my finger, my tongue.

One night she told me, “This isn’t what I want anymore.” The memories of our love scarred her pale upper arms like raised tattoos of albino worms.

“Who else will love you?” I touched a scar.

She began to dress.

“Who else will love you?”