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Goblin Market 2005

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id you miss me?

Come and kiss me.

Never mind my bruises,

Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices

Squeezed from goblin fruits for you,

Goblin pulp and goblin dew.

Eat me, drink me, love me;

Laura, make much of me:

For your sake I have braved the glen

And had to do with goblin merchant men.”

“The Goblin Market,” Christina Rossetti (1862)

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Ann Vremont

Chapter One

rancesca Schiavo stood behind the couch in her

living room. The lights throughout the condo were

turned off, the only illumination coming from the

flicker of a horror DVD playing on the television. Her

fiancé, Mike, was stretched across the couch, a

stadium blanket covering his lower body. A shadow

among shadows, she could see the bulk of one hand

covering his crotch.

“You’re not touching yourself, are you?” she

teased softly.

Mike jumped to a sitting position and placed the

hand that had been under the blanket across his chest.

Taking in a deep, shaky breath, he turned to her.

“God, Frankie, you scared the shit out of me!”

Francesca moved around the couch, her gaze on

the set as she threaded her way through the shoes and

bags on the floor. Studiously avoiding a glance in his

direction, she sat down next to him and picked up a

bowl of popcorn from the floor. Tucking her legs

beneath her, she continued ignoring him and stared at

the television. He put an arm around her shoulder

and took a handful of popcorn.

Goblin Market 2005

“I didn’t hear you pull up,” he said. “How long

have you been here?”

“Long enough to see you touching yourself,” she

answered and turned to nip his ear.

Even though it was too dark to see, Francesca

knew that her teasing accusation would not make

Mike blush. Nothing sexual made him blush. Oh,

there were places he wouldn’t go in the bedroom—

things he wouldn’t do. And an angry flush would

color his cheeks when certain subjects were broached.

But a modest blush of embarrassment? Never.

As if he was reading her thoughts, Mike slipped

his hand under the bowl and rubbed a thumb along

the thin seam of her clinic scrubs. “Just waiting until I

could touch you.” He breathed the words into her ear,

his warm breath moistening the skin along her neck.

Francesca shifted away from him under the

pretense of finding the remote. She adjusted the

volume and then settled back against the couch.

Onscreen, a group of survivors were about to be

swarmed in a tunnel by a mob of the zombie-like

diseased. She nudged him and pointed at the

television. “We were talking about this in class,” she

said.

“About the possibility of it really happening?” he

asked while he tried to find an exposed area of her

neck.

Francesca shrugged away. They had fought before

she left for class and she was still pissed, her ego

refusing to quicken at his touch, despite her body’s

eager need. They were, she counted, up to round

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