Euphemisms For The Sex You Try To Have When Your House Is Also Your Office, School, Daycare, And 24-Hour Recreational Facility

Running upstairs for a sec…

Audrey Burges
Slackjaw

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  • Social Closening
  • Throttling the Bandwidth
  • Hopping in the Shower
  • Feeding the Cat
  • Playing Operation
  • Fixing the WiFi
  • Running Upstairs For a Sec
  • Tramping Through the Lollipop Woods
  • Snaking the Bathroom Sink
  • Mutual Merchanting (Online Only!)
  • Refolding Clothes with Marie Kondo
  • Kneading the Sourdough
  • Catching Up on Duolingo Lessons (Loudly)
  • Checking the Thread Count
  • Sanitizing Nipples
  • Taking the Trolley to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
  • Scrubbing the Bathtub
  • Dry-Rubbing the Meat
  • Sucking Up the Under-Bed Dust Bunnies
  • Playing Dress-up
  • One a.m. Slumber Party
  • Shucking the Oysters
  • Shampooing the Carpet

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Audrey Burges
Slackjaw

Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.