The Wood of Suicides by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Author:Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781579623753
Publisher: The Permanent Press
Published: 2014-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

RAINS CONTINUED throughout the first week of our relationship. I was in love with the sodden fields beyond the classroom windows, with the slick bricks and asphalt, with every silver droplet hanging from the eaves. My love was boundless. It encompassed everything, since everything was part of the same world as my love for him. Everything in the world seemed to reference our love. The azaleas on the path to the library were as full and red as his desktop chrysanthemums, as anything that opens or bleeds with desire. When I heard the rains, I couldn’t help but think back to our midweek tryst in the locked classroom, and my own pearled stomach. I heard the rains and longed to be flooded.

I lost whole lessons in dreaming; dreams that differed from those of our courtship, since they were grounded in the rich stuff of reality—in the actual salt of his sweat, the actual dimensions of his manhood, the actual moans that I elicited from him, simply by being a young and beautiful receptacle. I gave thanks to the gods of interior design, to their unlikely penchant for doors that locked from the inside and windows that faced out onto the natural world, rather than into hallways where schoolgirls shuffled and lynx-like deputies prowled. When, at morning break, Marcelle waved a giggling palm in my face and snapped her cold-pinked fingers loudly, my only reaction was to beam.

“She’s out of it,” Amanda concluded snidely. “Totally out of it.”

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