Blinding Light
“Steadman said in his dictating voice, with a cadence that helped him remember the narrative line. “The soft hand of silk, the open weave of lace, the tug of elastic, the neat cut of pleats in a short skirt, the way that satin smoothly bulked over skin—and particular loose combinations, warmed by a warm body. Much more than a woman’s nakedness, the clothes were powerful aphrodisiacs. They were veils of enticement.”
“Nakedness,” Ava said, still writing, and in the tone that he was using, to let h...im know where she was in the middle of a sentence.
“Because a naked woman was someone stripped bare,” Steadman said when she glanced up. “And he had never seen a naked woman his own age, only older ones, or pictures of them, looking so much like meat he wasn’t interested.”
Writing fast, her thumb driving the ballpoint, Ava muttered, “These are abstractions.”
“To his terror-struck mind,” he said, “such women seemed unattainable and far-fetched. And he was so young, the gaping straightforwardness of nudity seemed artless and demanding—nerve without guile, all flesh and hair.MoreLess
“Nakedness,” Ava said, still writing, and in the tone that he was using, to let h...im know where she was in the middle of a sentence.
“Because a naked woman was someone stripped bare,” Steadman said when she glanced up. “And he had never seen a naked woman his own age, only older ones, or pictures of them, looking so much like meat he wasn’t interested.”
Writing fast, her thumb driving the ballpoint, Ava muttered, “These are abstractions.”
“To his terror-struck mind,” he said, “such women seemed unattainable and far-fetched. And he was so young, the gaping straightforwardness of nudity seemed artless and demanding—nerve without guile, all flesh and hair.MoreLess
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