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penny dreadful commented on the post, manhattan 6 days, 10 hours ago

She reached and grabbed and poured and shook and he watched. A drop of red juice trickling down her arm.

penny dreadful commented on the post, soap 1 week, 6 days ago

After the abortion fiasco, Ariadne’s hair began to fall out. Steel stood by her side and reminded her that he’d taken an oath to love her, rich or poor, fat or skinny, in sickness and in health, with hair or without hair. She realized after the nightclub fire that he hadn’t vowed to love her with skin or without. But it was too late.

penny dreadful commented on the post, ensue 3 weeks ago

It started as an innocent prank.

penny dreadful commented on the post, planter 4 weeks ago

On her One-Minute Date with a Podiatrist

warts bunions calluses corns
cysts infections incisions thorns
ulcerations lacerations amputations
thorns?
She shook her head and shook his hand
He’s rich she guessed
Handsome she knew
But could she ever fall for a man
without removing her shoes

penny dreadful commented on the post, café 1 month ago

Eavesdropping
on the couple at the next table
she burned her lips on the black
arabica, spilled
and stained her skirt

penny dreadful commented on the post, metro 1 month ago

Grumbling stomach and jangling tail
the dragon breathes in and out
exhaling your turning pages of magazines
your ringtones of chirps and tweets
and messages Important! Don’t Forget!
I tried to sleep. The dragon lulled.
But you’re constant nudging in my ribs
interferred.

penny dreadful commented on the post, creature 1 month ago

Daddy told me I was the spawn of Creature Double Feature on Channel 56. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster. It wasn’t exactly the birds and the bees answer I’d been hoping for but it made sense. I nodded my head and made Barbie do a split.

penny dreadful commented on the post, anchor 1 month, 1 week ago

He finally went to the emergency room on the 9th day of July, five days after the epic tug-of-war competition. Surgeons performed a skin graft to repair the damage to his hands, arms and back. Movement might be limited for a time, they told him. But god willing, he’d be anchoring the team again next summer.

penny dreadful commented on the post, dashboard 1 month, 1 week ago

He sat for a spell in the mangled wreck, breathing in her scent. Jasmine, cigarettes and gasoline. The aroma of death. The mix tape was still in the cassette player. He ejected it and kissed the Play button.

penny dreadful commented on the post, trench 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thighs of milk
a mile long
he dug in
took a drink
nestled deep
in the hollow
and whistled
his daughter’s name

penny dreadful commented on the post, vines 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The big bodied Italian
assaulted my mouth
aggressive and rash
at first just too brash
she lingered and caressed
her fat sassy ass
on the nose of my throat
til I ordered another glass
Um. Wait. Make that a bottle, please.

penny dreadful commented on the post, bagel 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Just to let you know

I devoured
the garlic bagel
that you left
on the counter

and which
you’d already schmeared
richly
with cream cheese

Forgive me
smelling of garlic
when next
our lips meet

penny dreadful commented on the post, tornado 1 month, 3 weeks ago

One blue clog took wind in the swirl and swarm
of Beethoven’s Symphony # 9
It landed with a clunk in my brain. D minor.

penny dreadful commented on the post, destined 1 month, 3 weeks ago

She let the dirt fall through her fingers. M would be mad, she knew, when she returned home. Finally. Soiled and stained. M didn’t understand the magnet of the ground and the smell of life.

penny dreadful commented on the post, beware 2 months ago

A confetti of feathers and a symphony of squawks. The aviary rattled with fireworks. But the zookeeper inside stood still. As the body was removed from the lion’s lair he cooed to the birds above.

penny dreadful commented on the post, truth 2 months ago

Patrice scanned herself in the mirror.

penny dreadful commented on the post, director 2 months, 1 week ago

Off stage he was a different person. Doodling on a pad he’d draw a line down her spine to the periwinkles on the keel until she swatted him away in laughter. They’d lock and snake and talk in nonsense until his eyes caught sight of the eclipse from the gap in the venetians. Then he’d be gone.

penny dreadful commented on the post, tales 2 months, 1 week ago

She smacked my face for telling tales. And I cried. But not because she’d hurt me with the hard fire on her hand and not because she’d called me a liar. She’d find out. The owl-eyed man lived in the attic and he’d slouch down again.

penny dreadful commented on the post, withered 2 months, 1 week ago

She sat on the divan in her yellow taffeta staring at the frisee salad. It wilted as the hours passed and the doorbell stood still. Finally, she turned off the porch light and climbed the stairs to bed.

penny dreadful commented on the post, returned 2 months, 2 weeks ago

My diary. All my secret thoughts. Violated.

The rumpled quilt gave her away.

From now on I’ll hide it in the broom cupboard where she’ll never look for it.

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