An Excerpt from the Collection of stories, Odd Voices...in Love
When I stepped back
into the bedroom, Barbara was lying across the bed. She had stopped sobbing. She looked at me with curious kitten
eyes. I turned the radio off, got down
on the floor, and did a few pushups. I
grunted loud and made sex motions as I raised my body off the floor. I stood in the mirror and flexed my muscles. My chest glistened with Brut and sweat. The towel dropped around my ankles.
“Axel, I love you,” Barbara
said as she raised herself off the bed.
“Shut up!” I
snapped.
“Axel, please.” Barbara came toward me.
I picked up the
phone and dialed.
“Thelma baby, what’s
shaking? Yeah it’s your ‘Axe’ talking to
you. You a
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