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BY
JOSH ABRAHAM




Cecilia

Cecilia shaved her head. I loved running my fingers through her long brown curls, but I have to admit, the bald was sexy too. Her skull was so round like a basketball. I couldn’t resist the urge to bounce her against the sidewalk and slam-dunk her into the hoop above my driveway. That’s when she stopped talking to me. Not only was she incredibly pissed, but also my slamming her head against the pavement like that smashed up her brain causing speech to be very difficult to her.

Her hair’s growing in now. Little stubbly patches of peach fuzz. Which makes me crave a peach cobbler. So it’s probably for the best that she’s not talking to me.

Dana

Dana was into really kinky stuff in the bedroom. She was always incorporating a cucumber or twisty-ties or swatches of felt. One time, she even brought in a Ziploc bag full of crickets! This was all too much for me. I guess I’m kind of an old-fashioned guy, because I like my intercourse to involve only me, the girl, and my sock puppet, Gary.

The thing is, Gary was really into Dana’s deviant forays. He loved it when she’d dip him into a bucket of red wall paint, or when she’d unravel the threads at his heel. And then one day Dana ran off with Gary on her arm. I should have seen it coming.

Jeanette

Jeanette was a real catch: she was smart, she was funny, she was cool. She was a great dancer, she was wild in bed. But she was a dead ringer for Sir Winston Churchill. I loved her dearly, but every time I looked into her fat, bulldog face, all I could see was Sir Winston. It drove me bonkers. I kept my feelings bottled up for a long time, because I was really crazy about her and I didn’t want to blow a good thing just because of some superficial quirk. But one day at dinner, she was going on and on about her ex-boyfriend and every time she got angry, her jowls would shake, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I excused myself to the bathroom, snuck out the kitchen door, and never returned.

Occasionally, I’ll still get messages from her on my answering machine, where she’s pretending to be somebody else, like a call from Blockbuster or a doctor’s office confirming an appointment… but I can recognize that slurred yet over-enunciated British accent of hers in a second. She thinks I don’t know it’s her! Girls are so crazy like that.

Mia

Mia and I were together for three wild years. When I finally proposed to her, she admitted that, though she loved me, she couldn't marry me, because not only did it violate the hooker-john contract, but also Slick Leo, her pimp, would likely bust a cap in my ass, fo sho, muthafucka.






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