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“Has it ever happened to you?” he asks, shocking himself.
“No.” Bill squeezes his eyes shut. He goes to move his legs, but Alice hangs on tight. “But not because it couldn’t have.” Alice kneads the knob of his ankle, rubs along the arch of his foot.
They lay like that for a while: Alice petting him, Bill trying to gather hold of the fragmented pieces of his mind.
“What happened to you— it wasn’t your fault.”
Then why does it feel like punishment for every time he’s failed? Missing out on Helena’s dance recitals, half a dozen not tonights or maybe tomorrows, passing glances at gaps in a woman’s blouse or the slope of another man’s shoulders all screaming that he’s coming up short. Culminating in a failure of a man unable to fight off a horde of people forcing themselves on him.