They’re probably fucking, or about to fuck, or in conversation—having fucked—calculating the optimal conditions for a subsequent fuck, consulting schematics, checking the math, modeling the geometry over coffee steaming from a beaker, probably wearing lab coats but also probably not.
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Pedro Ponce is the author of Superstitions of Apartment Life, Alien Autopsy, Stories After Goya, and most recently, The Devil and the Dairy Princess (Indiana University Press, 2021).
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image: “White Orchid”: Andrea Damic lives in Sydney, Australia. She has been published in 50-Word Stories and Friday Flash Fiction. You can find her on Twitter @DamicAndrea. One day she hopes to finish and publish her novel. In spare time she takes photos and creates Art.
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