Sixes and Nines

by Emily McPhillips

It’s gone 9 o’clock and the post watershed TV schedule is turning us on. An ice-cream van is driving down the street whilst Damon is closing the curtains. Our two small children are in bed, and my stomach is round because a third child is due. What Damon is trying to do to me is more of the same, but an ice-cream at 9 o’clock sounds like a better option to me - I crave it. I send Damon out, and he follows the jingle of if you go down to the woods today to the next block, and when I see him next, he’s carrying in a 99 for me. My mouth’s still cold from the ice-cream as I move my head down to Damon’s crotch, but he angles me another way, as he plays with the semantics of 99, to make us 69 instead.

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Emily McPhillips was born in 1985. She lives in Manchester, England.