Chapters tagged public sex

by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 2

It jumps in the air between you and the well-walk, hard enough that it lifts on its own, and the throb of it is stupid and simple and you do not ask how you got to a yard with a woman tied through stone. She can see your face from this side. She can see the dress. That is not the...

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Chapter 4

You run. Not toward the gate. Toward the collar, around the well, to the bucket. Hoping to see a face that is not the one sitting on your neck. The dress scraps your new thighs. The chest slaps with it. You hit the bucket with both hands hard enough that water slops over your wr...

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Chapter 7

The answer pulls itself out from the wood. A man comes out of a side door with a keg hugged to his chest and his mouth already full of a complaint, and he sees you before you see the sign over his head. Thick arms. Apron that was white this morning. He looks at Hal, then at your...

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Chapter 9

You hear it before you mean to look. Not one woman. A lot of them. Yells that are not all pain and not all want, slapping on stone, men counting out loud like they are in a line for bread. You go to the tap window because the sound is coming from the well-square and you have alr...

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Chapter 10

You lie down with the scrap in your fist and the blanket up to your chest and you tell yourself you are going to sleep. The square does not care. It comes through the open door and through the boards: men talking over each other, a woman swearing, another woman making a high so...