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    “Why isn’t it simple?” Vocalizing this question is impulsive, but Father isn’t here and Shreve is. Shreve might even know, as blood runs high in young men, as Shreve isn’t a Compson, doomed by the name we carry. The dark is still, the silence more pregnant for its brief reprieve. Shreve turns and the moon is in his eyes.
    “Why isn’t what simple?” Tone neutral, avoiding declaration of war, avoiding damage to a landscape still aching from my grandfather’s error. Those eyes hidden behind glowing feminine mystique.
    “Unvirginity.” I feel the blood across my cheeks and am grateful that he can’t see it. The shifting of bedclothes. Stiff words stiff lips stiff spine, hands clenching and unclenching.
    “Unvirginity,” he repeats, as if tasting the phrase. I stare blindly at the ceiling, keep my itching fingers still and quiet like dead moths. Shreve swallows and I hear the wet squelch of his throat.
    “It seemed pretty simple to me.”

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    09 Jun 2021

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    'cause broken people can get better if they really want to
    (or at least that's what i have to tell myself if i am hoping to survive)

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    22 Jun 2021