Encroachment
Ghostly shadow mice nibble away at the edges of my perception. Their scurrying sounds bitten off consonants of words once important now so much detritus used for bedding. Gradually the picture window of my world becomes a narrowing view framed in tiny teeth marks. Like a man going slowly blind.
Guest Post: Kitty Thomas on ‘Comfort Food’
My name is Kitty Thomas and I write what I classify as “dark literary erotica.†I appreciate Remittance Girl giving me the opportunity to talk a little about my recently released ebook, Comfort Food. Comfort Food is told in first person and is about a woman who is taken prisoner by a very wealthy and […]
Lacunae
Supine beneath the onslaught of your shower’s cool benevolence, the floor hard and frigid below my back, sharp against the ridge of my spine. Eager goosebumps rise across my chilling skin until I am a landscape of moist texture. Nipples as tight as Gordian knots, breathing laboured against the storm. The droplets bead and join, […]
Finish Me Off (#hearteater)
This is the third drink. Perhaps the fourth. I’m not sure. This is the twentieth cigarette I’m grinding out with nervous fingers in an overflowing ashtray. This is the fifth time I’ve put on and eaten off my lipstick, blotting it in the mirror between times. The thirty-eighth time I’ve checked my phone for messages. […]
The Woman that is not Woman; The Sex that is not Sex
Caroline Nevin, an artist, (@RubiesAreBlue) tweeted up this Italian documentary: Il Corpo Delle Donne (The Bodies of Women). This project took off as a matter of urgency. It all started with the observation that women–real women–are an endangered species on television, one that is being replaced by a grotesque, vulgar and humiliating representation. We sensed […]
Apple Ginger Rolls – An R Rated Recipe
(For the dough) 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C) 2 eggs, room temperature 1/3 cup margarine, melted 4 1/2 cups bread flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup white sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons instant dry yeast (For the filling) 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed ¼ cup white sugar 2 tablespoons ground ginger 1 […]
Agni
Flames dance at his fingertips, little blue blossoms, stinging thorns of heat. How can something so beautiful burn with such agony? My incandescent lover, my heart of the sun, leaves seared skin, in the wake of his touch, then tenderly wreaks devastation with that first, sure thrust. I burn from the inside, a reactor core […]
Instructions to a Lover
This is what I want you to do: Stand naked in front of the mirror and, with the sluttiest, reddest lipstick you own, draw a thick crimson circle around your navel. Don’t look down. Use the mirror. Place your flattened palm there, over the garish circle at your belly, and slowly – but not gently […]
Summer Fruit
Secrets erupt from eyes, sightless in ecstasy: such wrecked beauty. Dark juice pressed from delicate fruit, summer sweet. Kohl stained tears mark the creases where age will take you one day. Wipe your face and let me break you open just once more.
Creature
I want to be your creature. Not your wife or your girlfriend or your lover or your slave or your whore. All those things are traps. Something made by someone else. A mold to fit into, pattern to conform to, role I learn the lines for, play the part of. but If I’m your creature, […]