If you touch me once more,I will scream, mister.You know it’s not right. Hush. Your hand travels crisp sheets of my camp bed,finds my girly heart.Then down, pulls asidethe elastic and finds another heartbeneath a barely grown garden. Your hand rests there,as if exhausted by the journey. I open my legs to fitall of your…
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Nothing, Shadows
I was lying alone in a double bed, doing terrible things to a pair of knickers. The house was the student house of White’s girlfriend – the room an absent house-mate’s. Every few minutes an ambulance would roll past in the night, turning the room into a silent disco, red and blue. Whenever this happened,…
More or Less the Department of History
After we fucked on the classroom tableI felt a searing need to be alone:to make my own way out into the dark,walk the knotted miles of country lanes home. Snow was falling: slow shivers of waxfrom the high, guttering candles of the night.The coiling lanes slid smooth as skin, as faras childhood: snow seemed tied…
How Alice Might Have Felt
I.In the lush yellow light before the storm,I ask you for your autograph. I’m jittery,a half-tame wolf bitch poised to boltacross the emptying bar. We talk–you over beer, me over whiskey, glassrocks-cold and skinned in water–until thunder heaves the pregnant air.You grasp the hem of my skirt, runyour fingers between skin and fabriclike a bee…
Saturday Night After Work
Well wait just a minute, you told me.I didn’t come all this way for nothing, you know.It was Saturday night after work.You had crawled out from between the cushions in the backseat of my car. I know, I’m sorry for your trouble.I have to get home. My hand shook over the key.Your head extended out…
Silencer
He put a tube in her mouth like a cork to silence her. Down the hall, it only sounded like a little pop each time he murdered her. Trigger, hammer, bullet and like magic no sound came out. She took it out one night, her child hands grappling with his deadliness, and her parents watched…
Projectile Sounds
That year, I learned about the Doppler effect in physics class. What makes the noise of a speeding car seem a pitch lower after it’s sped by you. It was fall. My pimples were mostly gone but I was still fainting. I had not yet learned how to take the new refrigerator for granted–the choice…
Asexuality
I am sexless. We spend this night like jellyfish.We sting and stingeach other and it thrills me.We tiein careful knotsuntil we fill this tank up. This spills over–this water that will never be drunk. Stevie Blue is a student from Leicestershire.
An Ever Widening Distance
Nicola squeals when Dean enters her. He takes this as his cue to really go for it. And he does: ramming hard, enjoying the smacking sounds his flesh makes against hers, the feel of his balls swinging under him. He hooks his fingers around her hipbones to get a better purchase and repositions himself on…
Broadsheet
Such a nice boyIn flat sixteenDecent honest Even pleasant Go figure whyHe shot them deadWife and childrenAnd best friend For an inflatable dollFound in the closetFull of love Canadian author Luigi Monteferrante recently morphed into a singer/songwriter: www.myspace.com/mcmontylive. Previous prose/poems published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Happy, Yellow Mama, Word Slaw. First novel, At the Hearth…