Ky Simpson’s Reviews > Half His Age > Status Update

“I try tugging the sliding door shut but it's on the wrong track, so I push that door away from me and grab another one, which is still wrong, and then re-push and re-pull until I get this home-cooked slide puzzle challenge right, all those seasons of Survivor culminating in this one moment. But will I win immunity?”

“He stands up. . . and impales me like it’s nothing. And I wrap my legs around him like it’s everything.“

“I hate that phrase. ‘I was worried about you.’ Frannie uses it all the time. It skirts around the truth. Rather than own their own feelings, the sense of rejection or disappointment or whatever they experienced in reaction to something I did, they find a way of making themselves bigger and me smaller. I'm the one they have to worry about because they're the adult and I'm the child.”

“a look of concern on his cream of wheat face”

“‘Would anyone be offended if I say a pre-meal prayer for the group?’ he asks. Frannie looks like she might cum.”

“I thought it might be nice to be the more wanted one, but it's uncomfortable. To feel how eager he is to please me, to accommodate me. The unevenness reeks.”

Agh, her writing is just so readable.

“The offer hangs in the air for a second, the kind of second where a full four-course meal of emotions is devoured within it. Regret, then nervousness, then anticipation, then dread. All chewed and swallowed and partially digested, mixed with saliva and swirling around, just waiting. And waiting. And waiting.”