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James S. Dorr's new short fiction and poetry collection, DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET, is due out from Dark Regions Press as a companion to his current collection, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE. An Indiana resident, Dorr is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and a multi-time Rhysling finalist as well as member of SMFS, an Anthony and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, winner of Best of the Web 1998, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and is currently keeper of a gray and black cat named Wednesday (after Wednesday Addams of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and whose favorite toy is a plastic fake spider!). The Assignation by James S. Dorr
A bitter, a batter, a kiss and a clatter, she reaches behind her, the drawer, the knife. She kisses him harder, arching into his hug, murmuring how much she missed him when he was gone. Eyes dart to closet doors. Lifting the knife now she grinds her hips into his, stabbing down, harder, blade carving his backbone, then, moaning, she lets him fall. Quick, to the cupboard, she lets her new lover out, gasping and giggling, she opens the freezer, has him heave the old one in, cold, with the others.
James S. Dorr © 2007 |