Doll Crimes
Showing white cotton and bright red cherries.
“That’s fine, doll. That works fine,” my mother says.
I look at myself in the mirror before we go into the room, and my mother’s right. I would look better with curls.
Susie’s bedroom is big for the size of his apartment. It smells like old sex even with new sheets on the bed. The smell of my mother, and of him. Salt and sweat and something unpleasantly sweet, like milk just before it turns. The room is clean, though. At least there’s that. For a guy, Susie’s pretty neat. Clean nightstands, working lamps, a chair in the corner with a few old t-shirts thrown over the back. I’ve been in rooms with no sheets on the bed, stained mattresses glaring ho
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