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August 10 - August 24, 2025
What kind of criminal would go around advertising he’s a baddie?”
When we rise from this bed, it will be as one person, not two.
“Home can be a person, too. That’s what you are for me.”
Sloane lifts her glass to me. “Here’s to getting stuffed with premium sausage.”
Because for the first time since I was a boy, I’m fighting back tears.
His mouth still near my ear, he says, “I’ve never met anyone I needed to possess like you. I don’t understand it, this obsession. For you, for a single taste of you, I would die. I’d give up anything. From the first day, you owned me.” I close my eyes. A lone tears slips from one corner and slides over the bridge of my nose. “Tell me you’re mine.” I whisper, “You know I am. Forever.”
Reaching out to stroke her satin cheek, I murmur, “When the longing got too bad, I’d come sit in here and imagine you on that stool in front of the easel, painting something that made you happy. Maybe a picture of me.”