Featured in ‘The Paul Cave Prize for Literature 2023 Anthology’, Donna Costello uses second person prose to immerse the reader with a flash fiction piece involving romance and marijuana.
He waits for you in bed, a joint hanging between his lips. The sweet scent of Purple Kush, swirls into the air and he watches the smoke curl from the end of the blunt. He prefers something a little less floral, something with a more spice but this is your preferred brand of weed and tonight he wants to make this all about you.
You straddle his waist and lean in close, your nose trailing over his until your lips are barely apart. He exhales, blowing the fragrant smoke into your mouth before as he kisses you. The taste of candied berries plays across your tongue, and you drink it down, tumbling backwards into his sheets.
He makes love to you under an indigo haze. His calloused fingertips trailing over your skin as if he’s reading music, strumming the notes from your body until they collide into a symphony that only he gets to hear. When you fall, he falls with you, plunging through violet clouds with the taste of heaven on his lips.
DONNA COSTELLO 