The Fiddleback

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Ivy, my mother. She’s beautiful, she’s evil.

I was inside her.

I watch her.

She says to Edgar, “This ‘Stang is my baby.”

I am her baby.

Ivy spanks the red hood. Ivy kisses the seats. She wears shorts.

I have on my boots, the silver of duct tape. I have on my hat, my white cowboy hat. Ivy, my mother: she calls me Cowboy. Ivy: she’s evil.

I watch Edgar watching Ivy, his eyes on her shorts. Edgar, her body’s my body. Ivy: I was inside her.

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Nelly Reifler is the author of See Through, a collection of stories. She lives on a loop, 77 mph.

 

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