“I Want Her To Burn Me Forever” by Abby Horowitz (fiction, ’15)

A story with audio recording by Abby Horowitz (fiction, ’15) appears in Superstition [Review]:

“I Want Her To Burn Me Forever”

I once had a friend who believed in happy endings.

In the weeks before his wedding, the woman he was going to marry kept tapping at her chest with one pretty finger and warning him, Don’t forget, it’s pretty dark in there.

And my friend the groom would put his ear to her chest for a listen, saying: Just some regular thumps, same as the rest of us.

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