Mariam ✮⋆˙’s Reviews > Never Lovelier > Status Update

Here I am, walking into it, dragging along a female a hundred times my worth.

“we’re peanut butter and black mold. Still, I think her lemon scent might be embedding into my DNA.”

“I’ve never had to crane my neck for a male, and now my entire spine is arched like a bow, strung impossibly tight. Warmth touches my thighs, dots of it in lazy lines where his fingertips smooth the hem. It reaches lower than my dress, nearly mid-thigh.”

“We’re breathing each other’s air. No. Stealing it back and forth, neither gaining ground, neither giving it. I wonder how long we can do this, how long he can roll the sleeves up my wrists. Until all the oxygen in the realm is gone? Divided into mine and his?”