Getting Close
Calder QuinnStories, fragments, and feelings caught in moonlight.
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Heat and Steam: Before, During and After
A story 10 months in the making...
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The Observation Deck
The observation deck was technically public.
Technically.
At eleven-thirty at night, with the adjoining visitor centre locked, the access road gated, and Matthew’s friend having permitted them to stay after closing, it was also completely...
A Stolen Moment
Relax
Feel my hand on your heart and take a deep breath
Breathe with me
I lean in, and our foreheads touch
“Minha rosa…”
I pull you in close and rest your head on my chest
Kiss the top of your head
I squeeze you tight
Good n...
Yearning
I carry you beneath my ribs
like a country I was exiled from before I knew its name.
There are roads in me that lead only toward you,
fields bending beneath an invisible wind,
doors opening onto rooms where you have never stood
an...
Aubergine at Dusk
The field was already surrendering to evening
when she pushed him, laughing, into the grass,
his white shirt bright, innocent, and thoroughly doomed.
Her dress gathered slowly above her thighs,
revealing aubergine lace,
dark as the...
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