Character
Tom Meniscus, at first, did not realize that he
had found the secret backstairs to the bedroom of his best friend, Rolland
Hanson’s sister, Katelynn, who was both an invalid and a pink pants, so it was
rumored, until he saw the cracked door and its buttery sliver of light and saw
the upright, glimmering form of the young woman’s perfectly orbicular
mammaries, clad only in diaphanous bedgown, nor did he know what he should do
with this information except that he must keep it from his roommates, Jeff and
Jerry Kinnoson, who were known around campus as party boys with forceful sexual
proclivities, including the near-rape of a nubile, freshman bookbuster,
according to some sources outside their fraternity, not to mention from
Katelynn’s dipsomaniacal mother, Kathe, and her brutish father, Ron,
Congressman Hester’s aide, which amounted to a real test of Tom Meniscus’s
character, I’m telling you.
Copyright
2005 Corey Mesler
Fall 2005
Trying
to Drag the Dead Tail to the Conclusion
The worm in the book represents the death
of the word. The vermiculate page
represents my life story crisping at the edges.
The darkness at the end, well, that’s
as far as I’ve gotten with what I’ve gotten so far.
copyright 2005 Corey Mesler
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