Taifas Literary Magazine, No. 13, February, 2022
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message, her body shuddered, her thoughts wandered away and she remembered the previous night and the deep breakthrough.
Ana Smiljanic Serbia
Making a pledge
The face of a woman in love was like an open shell. The pearly glow in the sclera revealed her heart secret. Could this love last while I was alive?! The CLICK followed, and this time I got a photo. Out of the open bag came a box in cellophane – that of the Bajadera sweets. I knew it!
She stood for almost a full minute, catching air, breathing in the splendor of the imagined space and smelling the intensive scent of hundreds of roses that she could not get out of her head. She nourished her eyes with beauty, invigorated her heart and accelerated her pace. She noticed the passersby’s gaze fixed on her and spoke to herself over and over again…Yes, I love! Don’t you get it?! I love!
the wound. When lust reached its peak, when it almost started to torment both body and soul, there was a period of those deep, real kisses that touched the palate and made me wonder whether her absorption into me excelled my penetration into her. Choking, yes, it was similar to choking. And I never stopped screaming with excitement in my head and checking whether our lips were warmer and wetter than the thing I was looking for with my “I’m in the shop. I’ve just stopped to buy hand under my navel. Bajadera sweets, and I will be home in half an “It’s sharp five now. So the alarm would hour.” – I’ve just texted her. Whenever she sound in an hour. I’m afraid I’m going to have heard that CLICK, which meant a new text a crazy day and that I’m going to fall asleep at year II, no. 13, 2022, February
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It was summer and the heat burned her shoulders and melted her make-up, while the silky dress revealed her bronze thighs as she walked. She herself stared at her body curves The mutual feeling of besottedness and felt dizziness while walking. fascinated and amazed us at the same time; it Anna Fonteg would soon pass a shop lifted us to unprecedented heights and selling fine crystal vases, porcelain figures, silk provoked laughter followed by gentle, long tablecloths, and other wonders, of which some kisses whose strength people’s hearts beat made us feel exhausted. stronger. And, if the vase I’d never kissed like that. she liked was still in the Anna’s kiss was special. shop window – so And I didn’t expect it to be magnificent and tall – she like that, but it was, it fell imagined it in the hallway on my lips like a on her grandmother’s old hurricane, like a tune, a rustic table with plenty of bite of the lips that made white roses…If the vase you lose yourself in it and wasn’t sold, it would be made your blood freeze. theirs! And she wouldn’t The kiss was like a stop loving, she wouldn’t tug, hundreds of tugs stop giving herself and falling on the corners of daydreaming of life in two. The beauty of the my lips and then slowly prickling, followed by soul was reflected in a crystal glitter this time. a gentle licking resembling a balm that healed
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