The Sex is Always Just Fine

Initially I was going to skate by on some non-creative bullshit I wrote earlier today. Writing is writing after all. It is, but this shouldn’t have counted. Fortunately I’ve found time, so it won’t have to count.

(man, this new comma knowledge is empowering) I’ll have to learn about dashes next.

“Oh honey, the sex was just fine. The sex is always just fine–”

“Arched back? Gasping for–”

“What is it you’re reading? But really you’re on the right track here,” Connie centered her sweating Arnold Palmer on the cardboard coaster then dabbed her lips with a linen napkin. “He was funny.”

“Mmm. Doing it with a guy who makes you laugh is the best.” Lisa popped a cherry tomato leftover from her salad in her mouth and Grouch Marxed her eyebrows.

“Ew, no.” Lisa continued waggle her eyebrows. Connie grimaced, “Stop. Just stop. No, what meant was he was comical.”

“What? His thing did stand-u–”

“If you finish that sentence I’ll walk the check on you. No, he’d clearly seen too much porn.”

“The bush freak him out?”

“Jesus Lisa!” Connie sputtered. Their waiter topped off Connie’s glass with more tea, and the pair of women froze like nuns in a bathhouse.  The waiter left with a professionally blank face, but Connie would never eat there again.

“Don’t interrupt me. He was fascinated by the panty-lines on my hips. He kept tracing the indentions in my skin.”

“Cool.”

“Was that a question or a statement?”

“Whichever.”

“Cool. It was cool.”

251 words on day 542

Charma

First I should note that I’ve written the other days over the weekend. I’ve not yet posted them. One I won’t be able to post. My on the road experience continues today and through tonight so I may allow that to color the quality of my writing now and tomorrow. Lucky you.

Jun-kata always liked to chat her up before getting to the money. After what that old monk had told her last night Charming felt like using a spear instead of a net. “I gave you the touris for the shirts already. I’m not paying you a second time. Especially not in [cool money sounding name].”

Jun-kata grimaced.

The set of his face made her think for a moment he was upset for reasons other than the undelivered shirts. His words brought her back. “Drown me Charma. That all you think onna these day?”

Charming wanted to tell him not to call her that. Tell him she wasn’t one of his little fish. “I think onna lots these day. But only the one thing onna you: my shirts.”

“Charma…”

“I gave a money; you keppa shirts. Where’s my shirts, ah?” she asked, “Don’t calla me that.”

208 words on day 535

A Crystalline Swig

Purple clouds wall the Western sky. They beckon terribly. If someone asked you to recall the itch of a scrape healing on your elbow you’d say it was the same. The morning’s sun brightens this purple fortress and skips the ocean swells like a throwed stone. In Spring this near storm would have Bennies clattering down gangways and docks tying down boats and latching shutters. In Fall, now, shopkeepers drink coffee to the show while fisherman arrange their nets ignorant of the event.

Charming catches a few neon sparks strobe from cloud to ocean. Sweat beads on her Red Bull. She swirls the slush of the half-frozen energy drink, takes a crystalline swig, and heads back to The Pit to set up her t-shirt stall.

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“Ah, poop.”

Charming’s Sunday morning Pit neighbor chuckles while reading his pad. He’s not laughing at the feed.

“Hush-up Karl. We don’t all need to sound like fishermen.” Charming absently tugs the cord from her braid and shakes her hair loose. Karl waggles his head in agreement.

The vector of Charming’s consternation, Jun-kata, threads his way around the stalls and through the few customers in The Pit. He’s tall; girls fall for him. He thinks Charming owes him money; she thinks he owes her shirts. He’s a dick. Rebraiding her hair will keep her hands from throttling him. Maybe.

234 words on day 516