“Quickies” are works of erotic ‘flash’ fiction that must be 1) erotic and 2) fewer than 500 words. This one is 499 words. She won’t look up from her phone, though she knows he’s touching himself. She can hear him, she doesn’t need to see him. His soft slaps echo…

“Quickies” are works of erotic flash fiction that must be 1) erotic and 2) 500 words or fewer. (This one is 495 words.) I hold your hand as we walk to the small boutique down the row of houses. Handmade items, clothing — junk, mostly. But close enough to shop. …

take me out, thrill me with desire paint me up, kiss me with a mouth of blood bind me to a throne, put a pillow in my lap use dusty tape to shut my mouth, then my eyes keep only my ears left, in the absence of oxygen strap me down…

a narrative love letter in two parts (part II) For a while, you only came out at night. You said you felt scared and lost and you didn’t know what you wanted and you weren’t sure how to ask for it anyway. …

High together in the back pews, you taught me to kiss to stay silent when we could not stop laughing every time we heard the word, “Communion.” “Cum. Union.” (Hold the moan, or we’ll get shushed.) We burst apart, hungry, stoned and starving, to eat the body and drink the generic grape blood, Miss…

In the Absence of Thought (and for e.e. cummings, always) I was standing here — in this spot — wondering how to write a particular poem. All I had was a poorly wrought opening line — something like this — “…” “……?” “……!” and Oh, my Jesus Christ on a…

(ceremony in twelve haiku) Into our good grace, we offer this fold of flesh made sinful by touch. Do you renounce god, and the frightened ghost shell lies of Patriarchy? If you do, say it: reject your birthright and moan into Daddy’s ear. Repeat after me: “I submit to gain control. I…

(for Miss J. Andronicus — I’ll see you when you come home) It’s hard not to surrender to every sinful word. Even those blessed by the breath of purity cannot help but attune to its siren call. The very same one that echoes as you open your tongue-curl full of gagged bounties and blessings by…

“Quickies” are works of erotic ‘flash’ fiction that must be 1) erotic and 2) fewer than 500 words. This one is 495 words. I twist your hips around and come inside you from behind. …