I fell.

31 March 2009 at 3:10 pm (Fiction...)

Gloriously dark. So, very, dark. Smoke filled rooms welcome red lipped women. She enters. One pedicured foot follows the other. She walks, she saunters, she makes haste at the same time. Black clings to her pale skin. Skin that has only been kissed by the moon.

Shiraz is a cliche that looks good on her. She tastes it, savours it, devours it. Her lips – a bloody red. We stare. Stare at the smoke and the very red lips. Stare at her heaving a sigh. We light her cigarette. We light our cigarettes. Smoke washes over our skin. So soft. So beautiful in soft candle light. In a haze of smoke. She flicks the cigarette ash all over me.

I stare. I just stare. Unblinking. Slow… Touch her. Follow her. Walk faster, I tell myself. Move. Do something. The ash washes over me. Specks of orange disappear into a dull grey. I stare. Unmoving. Unflinching. She owns me. I gladly submit. I stare with parted lips. She looks through me, she always does. She owns me, and doesn’t care. I follow her retreating frame; tears exposing my ridiculously powdered face.

Shiraz stained and covered in ash. In a trance. One unsteady step after the other… keeping enough distance between us. She shouldn’t know I fell.

5 Comments

  1. Silvara said,

    1 April 2009 at 1:18 am

    Hauntingly beautiful :)

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  2. Monty said,

    1 April 2009 at 4:32 am

    Nothing like some soft porn involvin girl on girl lovin first thing in the mornin.

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  3. D said,

    1 April 2009 at 5:52 am

    What a sensual piece!

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  4. chandni said,

    2 April 2009 at 10:01 am

    I likes. I loves. I adores.

    You’re fantastic at this!

    Reply

  5. Sirop said,

    3 April 2009 at 6:10 am

    @Silvara: Thank you :)

    @Monty: Whatever works for you Monty… as long as it works. ;)

    Oh and Monty, I was just wondering… did your gold digging wife kill you around 20 something years back? Do you remember your past lifetime? Do you?

    @D: Yes, I was listening to Nayan Tarse from Dev D on loop…

    @chandni: Thank you! You are so so sweet…! But what is “this”… short random pieces of writing inspired by errrr… everything from a slice of chocolate cake to a song I can’t stop listening to? :P I really wanted it to read better. I will edit. I haven’t achieved the tempo/ rhythm I wanted and Monty has turned it into porn so… haha… I wish I was as good as you say :)

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