In the blue moonlight, my mother’s naked body was laid out for me, even as I touched her with my hands. It was kind of a snoozer, and we both fell asleep before it ended, cuddled on the couch, my head on her shoulder, her head on mine. xnx I closed my eyes, and tried to calm my breathing and my racing heart. He showed me the half-finished wood canoe he was going to give me for graduation. “Already?” Mom yawned, and was able to get up under her own power. The shock of her warm mouth so suddenly engulfing my member made me shudder, and Mom slowly sucked me deeper into her throat. I saw the sadness that still clung impossibly to this gentle man, a life never quite made whole, even sixteen years later.




















