Sex Sentences

by R.K. West

Jennifer thought it would be fun to write erotica under a pen name, so she carefully studied everything she found online. Soon she had a go-to list of salient adjectives: slick, firm, moist, tender, throbbing, hungry, insistent, and – if necessary --- engorged. The verbs came easily: slide, caress, submit, thrust, gasp, pound, quiver, melt. She was still too shy to write meaningful nouns and in the early drafts used popular euphemisms as temporary placeholders: manhood, flower, bosom, mound. She avoided obvious porn cliches, rejecting the friendly pizza delivery man, the lusty plumber, the naughty nurse, and the pretty girls who suddenly get excited by each other. The stern schoolmaster was tempting, but she wasn’t writing confessions, after all.

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R.K. West lives in the Pacific Northwest, writing flash fiction and indignant but anonymous blog posts.