Some fan art hung on the wall, adjacent. A plain bed rested against the middle of a wall. You looked out the small window for a second. ‘Don’t wor...y, the aliens wont get us.’ he joked. You giggled as you slid onto the bed. He followed, topping you. You bend to meet his returning, smoldering kiss. He toys with the straps of your purple tank top, and eventually slides them down, along with the rest of the garment, all while maintaining the kiss. The built- in bra made things so much simpler. He. In my mind’s eye, everything I saw immediately took on a sexual connotation. The arm of the couch was the perfect height and width to straddle and rub against. Remote controls became excruciatingly phallic and had me wondering what all those little plastic knobs would feel like, bumping in and out of my hole. I’d pressed my arse against the washing machine during the spin cycle until the vibration nearly made me scream and had experienced a fervent desire to be reincarnated as a stamp when I. “Just like you?” I said. I looked over at my woman.“Whaddya think, Nadine? Think I oughta chance it one more time?” I said.“Well, it’s your call, honey. The worst they could do is betray you again; then, of course, there wouldn’t be any doubt about their intentions. And, if it’s really on the up and up, well, you’d be able to be around your daughter again. How old is she now?” she said.“She’s nine,” said Rodney. Nadine nodded.“Honey,” she said looking at me, “given the young girl’s age it might. Even though I had a fleeing affair with the summer breezes, the tower had always stood tall and unyielding, always ready and waiting for my return. Slowly, I began to fully understand his ways. His ways were quiet, not flamboyant like the summer. In the stony gray of his fortress were hidden the hues of the rainbow. The warmth his hearth provided burned longer and hotter than any rays from the summer sun, it was never fleeting or brief. The foundation was buried in the depths of the earth. He.