The Loop

by Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Yup. The butt. Which always seemed kind of crazy, to me at least. I always saw that as a bonus level. That’s not the default game.

Like, you have to beat all the bosses and collect all the stars or rings or whatever, definitely do a bunch of oral, and then maybe you get to the butt.

There was something about the scent that made her feel carefree,

This chick is nuts. She runs hot and cold like toddlers playing in the sink.

He’s going to know I’m damaged goods.

To think she’s damaged goods? She’s nuttier than a Cliff bar

discovering that being home behind a locked door meant nothing if the wrong people were on the other side.

She’d breathed in their smoke, tasted them as they died.