Illustration by Kelsey Zigmund
Afterglow
fiction by
ROBERT DUFFER
It started as an endearment, her finger in his belly button an intimacy that was uniquely and solely theirs. His navel swallowed not one but two of the knuckles on her index finger.
“It’s just so deep,” she said.
“Fountain of youth,” he said.
She liked textures, how the hair on his chest and belly bunched between her fingers, the slow swirling of her palms and fingertips a steady growing arousal. Afterwards, her cheek on his matted chest, he rested his arm on her back, relaxed but secure. Then she dug in his navel. READ MORE
