Vanishing Twins by Leah Dieterich

Author:Leah Dieterich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2018-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Eric and I reassured each other that we weren’t being replaced. He made it clear that none of the women he’d been with compared to me. And since Elena was a woman and he was a man, the comparison was inherently more difficult.

We tried to shift our discussions away from the things we were doing with other people to the things we wanted to do to each other when he got home. He told me a story about a group of women taking turns biting one of the men on his birthday, and said it was incredibly hot.

I was surprised, because I remembered biting him once before, and being told I was too rough. It turned out the painter had bitten him too, and he’d liked it. I want you to bite my arms and shoulders, he said. I want a mark there. Or two.

Despite our talk of mark making, I worried that once we were face-to-face, we would fall back into a pattern of being careful with each other. An infinity mirror of delicacy. We tried to preempt it with dialogue.

Me: I want you to be a little less careful with me. That’s all.

Eric: I can be firm. This experience has opened me up to that.

He said with the women at camp he’d felt more wild, and we agreed that we wanted that for us, a more dangerous kind of passion.

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