Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

Once the image of sweaty, naked bodies got in their heads, there was no going back. Sex does strange things to people—it’s like blacking out or going on cruise control. Your body knows what it wants and goes for it. This can be dangerous, as I’d learn later, but if you can manipulate the urge, you can control a person. I felt like Professor Xavier—like I was telepathic.

But I just laughed and I think he got mad—I wish he knew that when an NDN laughs, it’s because they’re applying a fresh layer of medicine on an open wound. “Give me twenty minutes?”