FICTION WINNER- 'Neighbors'
By Murray Dunlap
The apartment door clicking shut wakes me. Charlotte walks in, smoking. She drops her cigarette into a beer bottle on the nightstand and lifts her gray sweater up and over her head. Feeling safe in the darkness, she unhooks her bra, exposing small, well-shaped breasts, eggshell white within the triangles of a bathing suit tan. I watch her surreptitiously, my eyes fully adjusted to the night. Charlotte pulls one of my t-shirts from the dresser, struggling to find the appropriate holes. She kicks off leather boots and stomps out of her jeans. The trademark logo of Havana 59, the restaurant where Charlotte works, is stitched into her panties. She crawls into bed as if her bones are made of rubber. I smell tequila, smoke, perfume, and sex when she presses against me, spooning beneath linen sheets….
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