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In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

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Penny couldn't stop, she sobbed and shook into Ula's bony<br />

breast as Ula massaged her shoulders, stretched her out, then slid<br />

alongside her.<br />

"Poor ba<strong>by</strong>," she said kissing her stinging eyelids, lips, sliding<br />

her hand over Penny's still white and unburned breasts. When Ula<br />

rolled on top of her, Penny erupted into a fit of hiccups. "Penelope, I<br />

taught him everything he knows about women. E-ver-y-thing."<br />

Burning and jolted <strong>by</strong> spasms as she was, Penny did nothing to resist<br />

when Ula's leg pried apart her thighs. Square, don't be square, Penny<br />

told herself. There could still be hope, if she lay very still and let Ula get<br />

on with her little game. A cold slippery thing slipped up her thighs,<br />

pushing to get inside, and Penny had a pretty good idea what the thing<br />

was <strong>by</strong> the time Ula turned it on and whispered in a prim, almost<br />

clinical voice, "Penelope, it's his, it even has the veins, painted on <strong>by</strong><br />

hand!"<br />

"Fuckin' pervert!" Penny flung both Ula and her contraption<br />

off her and leapt for the door, the disembodied phallus flopping around<br />

behind her on the empty dance floor.<br />

Seconds later, Ula's wrath exploded against the double bolted<br />

steel fire door. Unintelligible sounds gurgled through the steady<br />

pummeling. "Oh, it's very too late now, bitch. You'll never have him<br />

now. Never! Never! Ghrwaughrr."<br />

BAM BAM BAM.<br />

Penny went to the bathroom and turned on the cold water. She<br />

let the cold water pound her to the bone, hoping it would numb what<br />

burned inside her skull even more than over her skin. Dripping all over<br />

the place she hobbled out and began searching for the silver cigarette<br />

box where she kept her stash of joints. She found the box, and with<br />

cold clumsy fingers wrenched it open, but it was empty, they must have<br />

smoked up all her dope yesterday. She ransacked the wastebasket,<br />

crawled over the concrete floor, under the futon, the tables, everywhere<br />

looking for a stray roach, but they were all smoked up<br />

<strong>Her</strong> hair still wet, she pulled on yesterday's outfit because the<br />

demarcation lines were inside the burn, then her jelly sandals, still<br />

sandy, and marched up to Washington Square Park to find Arrow.<br />

Police lights flashed around the park. She saw a cop push<br />

Arrow's shock of dreads down into the car.<br />

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