Dadaoism (An Anthology) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Chomu Press
Published: 2012-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Romance, with Mice

Sonia Orin Lyris

The story goes like this: this woman named Kathryn meets this older man. He’s sensitive, insightful, and listens to her when she talks in a way that feels like intimacy of a sort she’s never known. They grow close quickly, very quickly, and within weeks she finds that she’s falling for him.

But he keeps her at arm’s length emotionally, never really letting her in the door of his heart, despite the clear connection they have that blazes like a meteorite across both their skies.

She learns a lot about him as they talk, getting together nearly every day, both from the things he says and the things he doesn’t, but there’s plenty about his past that he won’t reveal.

Is he vulnerable? He is, but it’s that kind of vulnerability that never comes all the way inside, that’s close enough that you can hear it breathing, but which stands just outside the door and won’t come in.

They’re sitting in the park here, today, side by side, but not touching. They’ve barely touched in all these days that feel like years—a stroke across the fingers, a touch on the shoulder, but nothing more. It’s only been a few weeks, after all, but that’s not it.

She says, “Look, you must know how I feel about you, Marcus. Yes?”

He nods slowly, not meeting her eyes, but they might as well be naked in each other’s arms, the way it feels to be together, just how it feels.

“So—” she says, haltingly. “I love you. You know that, right?”

He nods again.

“I want to know—I do, and it’s okay if you don’t love me back, I mean—”

“Stop,” he says. “Don’t do that. You know it isn’t that. Love is—it’s a word, it’s just a word, but what’s between us—” And now he does turn to face her, to meet her eyes, and the electricity is so intense while she’s looking into his big blues that the world could vanish around her and she wouldn’t notice.

“Yes,” he goes on. “I love you and all that. And more. But.”

“But what? Tell me.” She’s surprised at the force of her own words.

He looks away. He reaches out and takes her hand. He puts it on his knee and strokes the fingers. Lines of fire, it feels like, that go through her arms and into her heart and stomach. And groin.

And then, after a moment, slowly, he nods.

Now, see, I’m the author here, and I know a bit about what’s going to happen next. Do you feel it, the tension? The draw toward the end of the story? Is it beautiful? I know, I know, you want me out of the way so you can get on with the story.

But not so fast. Now that I have your attention, I want to explore a bit.

See I wrote this other story once, about a guy who paints. He’s not well in the head, this guy, but he’s reasonably good at the art stuff, and so he’s sold some of

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