Touching Strangers by Stacey Madden

Author:Stacey Madden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Now or Never Publishing
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

STAGE 5A: DISSOLUTION

“Turn that off,” Dr. Sedgwick said. “I hate looking atmyself on television.”

Lisa rolled over, a clump of bed sheet between her thighs.“Oh, shush. Everyone says that. I’m tired of it.”

“Well, I mean it.” Rosamund zipped up the fly on her dresspants. “I was there. I know what I said.”

Lisa rolled back over onto her stomach and continued towatch, her feet in the air.

Roz stared at her girlfriend’s bum, covered by the thin whitesheet—a sloping hill of smooth, downy snow—and felt a stabwound of desire in her chest. She didn’t want to work today. Shewanted to spend all day in bed with Lisa. They hadn’t done thatfor months.

“Is it really that bad?”

“Yes,” Roz said quickly, and then, “Wait, what?”

“This flu,” Lisa said. “Should I be worried?”

“No, but these things are hard to predict. You’re healthy. Andeveryone who’s been quarantined so far has been male. I don’t thinkit means anything, but it’s strange. We need to look into it further.”

Lisa turned around and looked at her lover. “Really?”

Roz laughed. “Aren’t you paying attention to the press conference? We mention it multiple times.”

Lisa gave her a look like she was crazy. “You really arestressed, aren’t you.”

“What do you—” but then it hit her. The television was onmute. She shook her head. “Sorry, Lis.”

There was a look of pity in Lisa’s eyes. Normally, Roz hatedthat look, but this time she saw love in it.

“Go to work,” Lisa commanded. “But please, please don’twork too hard.”

Roz continued to dress while Lisa flipped channels. She wentto the bathroom to fiddle with her hair, and when she came backto the bedroom, Lisa had turned off the TV and was pretending tosleep. She kissed the top of her head and left the apartment. Thecreepy defense lawyer who lived in the unit across the hall waswaiting by the elevator. He smiled at her, so Roz took the stairs.

*

Zack Pike opened his eyes, climbed over the naked womansprawled out beside him, and stumbled into the bathroom just intime to puke into the sink.

“You kneeled on my arm, you fatass!” he heard Claire saybetween retches. “That’s going to bruise.”

Zack envisioned an animated .gif file of his knee pressingdown so hard on Claire’s arm that it snapped in two. It repeatedand repeated itself in his head while he spewed last night’s BurgerKing into his sink. He waited for a long enough break betweenretches, then moved to the toilet and continued to blow chunks.The bathroom smelled strongly of French fries.

Claire was making noise in the other room. Zack held hisbreath and rested his head on the toilet seat, watching her.

“I’m going out,” she was saying, as she stepped into a pair oftattered pink panties.

Zack pinched his eyes and looked at her. She was right aboutbruising. There were purple and blue blemishes all over her legs.It was sort of a turn-on, but also sort of not. She was a hookerafter all. Her upper-arms were covered in pimples, and her hairwas wild and crusted with various forms of hair product. Still, shewas amazing in the sack.

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