Interview: Nikola Tamindzic
“In [New York], sensuality completely turns into sexuality——no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt… Nothing except eating, if...
View ArticleEvery Time We Kiss
In my life, I’ve known only two men who didn’t kiss. One refused to. When I put my mouth close to his, he’d pucker wanly, like a kindergartener forced to brush his dry lips against his disliked aunt,...
View ArticleDrought Catalog
Let’s talk about the sex I’m not having. There’s a lot of it. It’s copious, the sex I’m not having. It could fill the Houston Astrodome. The bountiful nothingness of the sex I’m not having would echo...
View ArticleAre Y’all Ready For This?
There will be cheese cubes. There will also be a plate of desultory fruit, and another with careful loops of store-bought chocolate chip cookies. At the end of the night, as the columnist from...
View ArticleWhat I Learned in Girls’ School
One very cold night at the very beginning of 1980, I got very, very drunk and put my mouth all over my friend Melissa. The details are hazy. Underage, we drank many, many sloe gin fizzes, left the bar...
View ArticleUnderneath It All
I once had this boyfriend, this dick-swinging man’s man. He was a former Army Ranger and a silver-tongued ex-junkie, a guy who liked to refer to himself as the “cat-daddy,” the “goat-gatherer” and the...
View ArticleYou’ll Have What I’m Having
My lover likes to watch me come. He stares at my face encouragingly, intently. He makes these little moues of appreciation; they’re adorable. His eyes flicker about my face, half in wonder, it seems....
View ArticleCan the Cocksucker Speak?
I texted my lover today. “I miss your cock,” I wrote. “I want to suck it.” Then I texted a series of illustrations: an eggplant, an ear of corn, a cactus. With all debt owing to Sonnet 130, my lover’s...
View ArticleIn Praise of Younger Men
For one thing, it goes against the norm. The romantic norm is two lovers of the same age. The practical norm is an older man with a younger woman. In popular movies, the practical norm is almost as...
View ArticleBeing That Woman
On paper, I look like “that woman.” In my fifties with unseemly, long, entirely unnatural red hair, I’m a picture of harlot health. I’ve never been married; I tend toward open relationships; I spent a...
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