Author of the bone people5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She touches the lamp and the flaring light stills. I know that's irrational, but that's the way I feel." I veer away from it, because it always feels like the other person is draining something out of me. ![]() But ever since I can remember, I've disliked close contact.charge contact, emotional contact, as well as any overtly sexual contact. "I'm the odd one out, the peculiarity in my family, because they are all normal and demonstrative physically. There is nothing in my background to explain the way I am." She steadies her voice, taking the impatience out of it. ![]() I haven't been raped or jilted or abused in any fashion. "Ah damn it to hell," she bangs the lamp down on the desk and the flame jumps wildly. "I thought maybe someone had been bad to you in the past, and that was why you don't like people touching or holding you." "I suppose it is a matter of taste.""I wondered, did anyone ever," shrug, "you know, hurt you so you don't like kissing? love?" ![]()
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