Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery, from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better, from Main Street Rag Press.
"Dreamwolf" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Dare we invite the dreamwolf in, to jump through our chaste window, carry us over the midnight snow under a far moon?
Dare we—at this stage in the old game—dare to feel the galloping charge of hot breath, rough hair?
Outside our window the dreamwolf passes, hungry, unconcerned with us.
She sleeps like a dead weight now beside me, lowered into the night, the ropes of the day swaying around her. We know nothing about each other really. She does not know how often my ex-lover visits me
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Georgia lies in bed, eyes closed, curled into a ball, listening to the soft tick-tick-tick from the clock in the living room as it counts down the minutes until morning. The minutes tick into hours
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