Stories tagged “masochism”
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Depressing Poem I
My dearest friend has become Death, My sister’s name is Pain, Though while we’re not on speaking terms, I feel we’ll be again. Torture and Masochism are my cousins, Never seen without the other, Happiness has drifted out of view, While Life has f...
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It Takes Two
I stared down at the sparkling ring on my finger the entire plane ride home. It had been a long eighteen months of dating, and should have ended the second week, not well into the second year. And yet, here I was, on a plane trip bought with all the ai...
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Earl Gray.
China teacups did not shiver, let alone crack in his hands. Unlike other things, he thought lasciviously, baring his eye-teeth and biting neatly into a cherry scone slathered with cream. Hesitant glances darted towards him from fluttering, heavily-pai...