Part 1 – jazz music I have arranged to meet you in a pub in Islington but I've forgotten about London travel, how the connections don't all work out, how one double parked car can cause chaos and now I'm late, terrified you won't be there. I can't explain about this because you refused to give me your number even though you have mine. You can't have noticed...
Spilled a little cappuccino on my white skirt. The brown stain spreads like a sunspot, an areola. The waiter glances back at my discomfort with a contemptuous smirk. I smile back sharply, an unspoken fuck you. My nails tap impatiently at the green patio table. Don't know what I am waiting for. Fuck I just bought that skirt, dry clean only. I have a good...
I'm touring the Louvre. I have a three day lay-over in Paris, and since it's raining, I thought I would walk through the ground floor of the Louvre, in the rooms devoted to the Middle Ages. Statues of the saints mixed with thoughts of knights and ladies and heavy swords. I had a fascination for this at a young age, and I still have it. I find it restful to...
"Did you feel me lover? Did you feel my arms around you at night as my lips melted into yours, my tongue searching? Did you feel me kiss your tears away or hear me whisper against your ear my words of a love that would keep you safe and always be with you? Did you ever hate me for who I was? That I was born one of them? Did you look up at the blue sky an...
"Thanks for picking me up," Lynn said, wiping the rain from her face. She looked at the driver and found she was a beautiful woman. This surprised her, all her previous rides had been men. The woman kicked the heater all the way up. "Don't mention it," the woman said with a smile, "I have a long way to go and need company. Didn't your sign say Miami?" "Y...
It had been fun hanging out awhile. The afternoon had passed quickly. The sun had been very nice. "Well, I've got to get going. My parents have some big thing planned," Helen told Rita as they lounged on the balcony of Rita's hotel room in bathing suits while smoking and drinking Diet Coke. The two gals were on vacation with their families. Their fathers w...
Midnight. A cold spring rain muffles the tears. The room is dark and my body tight, curled in the protective round that has become me. Soft cat noises intrude, breaking the spell, forcing me to listen. Time is my enemy.....declaring war on sleep, on the rhythm of a body that needs to be held....time, the heartbeat that races and slows with no pattern but onl...
Harriet and Helga have agreed to spend more time with each other after Harriet outs herself to Helga, but because Helga's husband has been spying on her for his masters, Harriet suggests they exchange private information about each other. Helga is hesitant at first but she is anxious to please her new found friend and is angry that the Nazis have been spying...
Sequel to 'Lynn's Journeys'… * "Lynn, these are powerful, girl, really fucking powerful," Ali said, laying the 8x10 glossies down on the desk. I had showed her a few of the shots that I particularly liked from one of the photo projects that I was working on. After I moved to New Orleans, I began shooting pics of the Ninth Ward, pics that showed t...
The clatter of high heels on tile was like a siren to Michelle Lord. She tidied her station and closed the file she'd been working on and pushed away from the desk. Tanya, the secretary one desk over, cupped her hand over the phone receiver and said, "Honey, when she snaps, you don't have to say how high." Michelle ignored her and picked up the coffee cup f...