from mirrored floor
by Dan Boehl & Carlos Rosales-Silva
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There was that article about the two boys who got lost in the
woods and had to eat iceballs for the water. They huddled
under the redwoods for three days before the hunger forced
them out and they stumbled upon a hobo camp. One hobo
brought them into the ranger station and they arrested him
for trespass. "Ain't that always the way," she said to the em-
pty kitchen. She poured some coffee, opened the Style sec-
tion, looked at who was getting married. She wasn't in any
of the pictures.

She had a dildo, but she was tired of fucking machines.
"Better than fucking assholes," she told herself, but that
didn't really make her feel any better.

"I sort of want to start going to the theater," he said, and she
knew she was losing him. He wanted to go see Claire's
plaything. "Oh, I am in this plaything," she heard Claire tell
him at the party. They were looking at books and talking
about movies. Plays. Puke. Movies. Puke. Books. Puke.
It's all so boring. Always the same thing about family and love
and murder and death. A kid getting beaten with a cord. A
chef who cheats on his wife. A doctor a lawyer a real estate
agent. Whatever happened to basketball? Sometimes she
wished he was into sports.

She used to look at the windows in the apartment building
across the way and wondered how so many things could be
happening at once, all stacked like that into the sky. The
breakfasts, the fights, the TV casting a blue glow across a
man late into the night. How it all seemed important to
somebody, but not one thing meant anything to her. How
everybody should be a giant, but instead are tiny and drive
around in cars.

"You can only touch me for part of the night," she said.
"The body part of the night?" he asked. It was the biggest
full moon of the century. Of the next eight centuries, but the
damn thing looked just the same. It was her time, but she
didn't care and didn't think he would care either. She put her
hand between his legs. "Yeah," she said, "the body part of
the night."