If That's What You're Asking Rebecca Hannigan
We
sucked face. We sucked face so much and so hard until mine came off and
into your mouth, and then you spit it out and said, "Ew." And then I
said, "Ew." I avoided the mirror, but at a certain point I couldn't
avoid it anymore and I saw it, and when I saw it, I didn't say, but
screamed, "EW." You didn't hear me, luckily, or maybe if you did, you
didn't say anything, because when I came back, you were smiling. You
were, also, kicking at my face, which was all slumped and sticky on the
floor, and you were, also, picking up pieces of yourself, stuffing
skin-covered parts into your clothes, buttoning and zipping like nothing
had happened, and really, that's right, it was nothing, really, that
happened. Nothing happened, if that's what you're asking.
Rebecca Hannigan is a junior editor for Tethered by Letters. She has work in Maudlin House
and others.
"If That's What You're Asking" is a finalist for the Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction.
Read RH's postcard.
Detail of art on main page courtesy
of Joana Coccarelli.
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