Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger

Author:Craig Clevenger
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781596929371
Publisher: M P Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2005-04-03T10:00:00+00:00

sixteen

I SLIP MY FINGERS BENEATH YOUR SHIRT TO THE SLICE OF FLESH ABOVE YOUR hips that feels so good in the dark but you hate so much. The places on you I love touching the most are the ones you like the least. Your touch fades. My dick feels like a prosthetic grafted onto me, devoid of sensation but heavy and rigid like a policeman’s sap. I switch on the lamp and I’m miles above the earth, floating in the center of the galaxy with stars on all sides of me. How did I get here and where did you go? Ten slow breaths and the pale patches of wall come into focus, the square ghosts of the old pictures linger like the afterburn of sunlight when stepping into a dark room.

The bottle of nail polish is a knot of burning yellow from the heart of the sun. One of the stars moves and my brain regains footing. Legions of bugs cover the walls, ceiling and floor, each marked with yellow nail paint and glowing from the black light screwed into the lamp. They tagged me, so I tagged them back. There’s nothing for them to report. I’m not doing anything but lying on my bed with my memories and my hard-on, but it looks like I’m floating in the middle of the universe. Shouting from the room next door, a crash against the wall startles the bugs and the constellations shift. Orion disbands, Scorpio dissolves, the galaxy crumbles.

I haven’t slept in days, since I awoke to my empty brain and, in a blink, those days are gone. The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. The time flies are in collusion with the rest of the bugs. Each wave of fatigue brings a riptide of memory pulling me back. I kick against the current, gasping and choking for sleep, drowning in being awake, struggling to break the surface but the memory is too strong.

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