Strangers

Strangers

"Strangers" originally appeared in the lesbian short-story collection called Blue Sky Sideways, published by Masquerade Books in 1996.


Excerpt:
I could fix you, I wanted to say. I could make you whole again.

How I wanted to slide one finger into the ringed loop at the zippered neck of her jacket. How I wanted to pull down that zipper and reveal her, knowing somehow that seeing the shell of her skin would wreck me, devour me, consume me. I knew it all—I could visualize how pale her skin would look against the black of her snowsuit, how pink her nipples would be. Wanting to see the chill of the air bring a blushing hue to her all over. Bizarre. Dangerous to have those feelings for a total stranger.

But we weren’t strangers for long.


By Alison Tyler
Photo: Riendo