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| Issue 19: | 15 Aug. 2023 |
| Microfiction: | 102 words |
By Keith J. Powell
Invited In
She gets a sly kick from secreting copies of Twilight around their house, collecting dog-eared paperbacks with cracked spines from garage sales and thrift stores, slipping them onto pantry shelves, inside pillowcases, his briefcase, the freezer, holding in her laughter so tight she turns pink whenever he finds one, asking him straight-faced, “How’d that get there” and her foreplay goes on like that for weeks, months, until one night it dawns on him how to play, and he strips naked, douses himself in glitter, and waits for her to come home, flip on the bedroom lights, and see him sparkle.
Keith J. Powell
is co-founder of Your Impossible Voice and has recent or forthcoming work in SoFloPoJo, Heavy Feather Review, BULL, 100 Word Story, and The Disappointed Housewife.
Find more at: www.keithjpowell.com
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Glow, flash fiction by Keith J. Powell in The Disappointed Housewife (7 February 2023)
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