Originally appeared in the Boston Book Review.
(Date approximate).
“I love you Daddy. I need you.”
“You need this?”
And she made a sound that I cannot duplicate. It was deep and guttural
and so charged with pleasure that I got dizzy and lowered myself to the floor.
The sounds Etta made got louder and even more passionate. She never made
those sounds because of me; no woman ever had.
Mouse is crazy, I thought, just crazy!
But I wished for his insanity.
Etta did too.
Etta did too.
"A Red Death" (2002)
HB: Tell me about Mouse.
