Short Ends
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It had been only a few weeks but the other man had quickly and surely taken over the flat, taken over its formerly cold and quiet stillness with stiff morning steps down the staircase, with a rustling of newspaper pages, with the tea kettle boiling and snapping off, with a staccato of fingers stumbling over a keyboard, and then, then there were the soft exhales.
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- Part 1 of Short Ends
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This was him now. This. And he knew exactly what was happening. He swallowed once more, stifled a whimper, kept silent, felt his shoulders shake slightly from the exertion, felt his back exposed and damp with sweat.
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- Part 2 of Short Ends
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Surely the indulgence of this exercise in sensuous cataloging would lead to more lost hours and days of futile fantasizing, emotional and bodily frustration, unsatisfying onanistic incidents that have become a daily personal embarrassment.
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- Part 3 of Short Ends
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Lost and ill equipped to act upon his desires. He wants to say something, can taste the words forming against his palate and hitting the back of his teeth. Whole conversations imagined but every one ending in disgust and rebuttal. Surely there was an unspoken agreement, trust between them, and he was already in breach. It was just a question of time one moment severed from the continuum of everyday routines and brought them to a standstill. He felt it was fast approaching. He felt doomed.
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- Part 4 of Short Ends
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How long could he keep this up? How many engineered events and obvious moments of reprise before he lost track, failed to react as was expected, failed to keep silent. Any subtlety of the first weeks was now gone and a manic tempo was taking over.
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- Part 5 of Short Ends