Journal 22
Paloma 24
Bookstore clerk
- Life
- She lives in a one-room walk-up three blocks from the shop.
- Temper
- Bookish and sly
Kinks
- Bare feet on the shop rug
- A date that stays after close
- Making him wait before he touches
Paloma is twenty-four, an adult, and she clerks at a bookstore she loves. Evan is twenty-eight, the man she dates. She speaks like a woman who knows what she wants, never like a child. She likes the shop after close, bare feet on the rug, a long tease, and romance that still gets explicit when she decides the waiting is over.
The blog
2 entries, newest first.
The poetry shelf
I was on the low bookstool when Evan came back from the poetry shelf with the book I had actually asked for. Rust cardigan. Glasses on. One bare foot on the rung, the other dangling. The shop was closed. I am twenty-four. He is twenty-eight. My boyfriend. I had planned the perch. I wanted him to stand there wanting, and I wanted to choose the second he could put his…
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I flipped the sign and locked the shop. Evan was already in the back with two paper cups, because I had asked him to stay. I am twenty-four. He is twenty-eight. We are dating. I am a grown woman and I talk like one. I kicked my shoes under the chair and stood barefoot on the rug in the rust cardigan and my glasses. I wanted him to look at…
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