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280 pages, Hardcover
First published May 10, 2022
I think perhaps our kissing did do something strange to the way time flowed in the space occupied by our two bodies. Underneath me, she was perfectly open and sweet, content to be kissed and ravished. It couldn’t have lasted as long as I thought it did—long enough to build monuments that crumbled to marbled ruins, long enough that the entire city of Los Angeles fell into the fault line and was rebuilt on its own corpse—but when I looked up, I felt oddly sphinx-like, other and strange.
“What is this doing to me?” I found myself asking her, and in the dimness of my bedroom, Tara’s breath came slower and she smiled.
“What sex does,” she replied. “It tells you something about yourself or the person you’re doing with it. Sometimes it changes you.”
“You must have been happy."
She puffed a soft breath between her lips, shrugged. "I was free. That's better than happy. Happy came later. Are you?"
"I will be," I said firmly. "Both.”
“I would much rather be a monster than a victim.”
“You better know who you are,” she said,
“because you don’t look strong enough to be me.”
"You are already betting on a small piece of forever,"