42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

2 May 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 1

Desperate Mothers Are an Easy Lay

They usually treated Detective Summers as though he were brave

because spending time with him would bring their children back.

Summers approaches some women by what they're willing to do

or outdo. They believe it themselves, a freedom with bunions.

It's easy to use someone's body.

Speak with bait or don't speak.

During the time of hysteria, women were brought down