Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello

Author:Gina Frangello
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: chicago, chick lit, erotica, gina frangello, my sisters continent, other voices, sex, slut lullabies, the nervous breakdown, womens literature
Publisher: Emergency Press
Published: 2014-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

It is eleven when she comes in to work the next day. I am silent, trying to swallow the need to ask her what we are going to do with our letters of resignation, which are sitting in my top desk drawer. She smiles a weak smile at me as she goes to her desk. Her hair is messier than usual.

At lunch she comes to my desk and waits for me the way she always does. We are quiet in the elevator, but as soon as we get outside, she says, “I know I shouldn’t have done that last night. Please don’t lecture me. There’s just such an attraction between Phillip and me that I couldn’t resist it. It doesn’t affect how I feel about Jeffrey.”

There is a long silence during which I am sure that she imagines me to be struggling with my moral stance against adultery. I cannot think of what to say. When I speak, I say, “That was him, wasn’t it? The third important man in your life. The one besides Geoff and Jeffrey?”

“I have such a weakness for him,” she says. “No matter how long we spend apart, we’re always drawn back together. God, you should see his apartment here. The painting he was thinking of buying last night wasn’t even half as expensive as most of the art he owns. You should have come with us. Larry wasn’t so bad once he sobered up.”

The sudden realization that I have no idea what is going on hits me. “Look,” I say, “maybe it’s a bad day to resign.”

“I was thinking the same thing,” she says. “I don’t know if I can afford to be unemployed just now. Jeffrey is trying hard to save, but his expenses are making it difficult. As soon as he’s saved some more money, we’ll do it. That will give you a chance to save, too.”

“So did you have a good time last night?” I do not say, Besides your crying fit. I do not say, Did you actually sleep with that guy? I do not say, Don’t you see what’s going on? I do not say, Who are you?

“Phillip puts me through an emotional wringer,” she says. “But he’s just a very honest man; he says what he feels. He has the power to draw me out, to make me see things I don’t want to see and act in ways I don’t normally act.”

Geoff, a limp penis, and two women tumbling around on a bed to please him.

“Like a Svengali?” I venture.

“Exactly,” she says. “Do you see? We understand each other so well.”

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