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Kissing the Monster Hunter

May 1, 2022 By Meg Pokrass

Kissing the Monster Hunter

The monster hunter and I kiss so fast we don’t see the monster. We kiss before we can see each other kissing. “Is the monster blue?” I say, kissing his lips so hard that he has to see me, has to recognize the monster in me. “One of the monsters is blue,” he says, “and one of them isn’t. One of them has feet, and the other one has lips.” I’m laughing, we’re laughing. Now we’re in the same world, kissing each other so hard in the dream that his neck feels like a sea serpent rising from the  deep. I’m on guard, but ready to be roped by the tendons in the old man’s neck.

“How old am I?” I say to my monster hunter. “Old and beautiful like me,” he says, “like all invisible animals are.” I can feel my wrinkles reaching toward him like fishing-lines in water. Can feel the monster in him rising from the salt of my skin. Later, I’ll be wringing my hands. Thoughts of capture will have taken up residence in the loch I swim in without him every day. “Help me,” I  say, kissing him so hard that I can finally see him.

About Meg Pokrass

Meg Pokrass is the author of seven flash fiction collections, a novella-in-flash, and is the two-time recipient of the Blue LIght Book Award. Her work has been internationally anthologized in two Norton Anthology Readers, Best Small Fictions 2018 and 2019, the Wigleaf Top 50 List, and her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Washington Square Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review and Smokelong Quarterly. She currently serves as Flash Challenge Editor at Mslexia Magazine, Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K. (Bristol) Co-Editor of Best Microfiction 2020, and Founding/Managing Editor of New Flash Fiction Review.

Artist Credit:

Brett J Barr is an artist/ tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Chuluota, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/ graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.

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