Love Among the Oddvalds

Jack Stratton
6 min readApr 5, 2018
Photo by Holly Lay CC Attribution 2.0 Generic

She promised not to smoke if I just came over. When I got there, she stank of mouthwash and she didn’t know what to do with her hands.

You could always tell the state of Amanda’s life by the state of her lips. As she moved in to kiss my cheek, I saw that that those absurdly plump lips were bitten, chapped, and raw.

“I broke up with him,” she said, walking to the window as I sat on the broken…

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Jack Stratton

Writer, New Yorker, foodie, hedonist, kinky, poly, dandy, switch. Find free stories and a list of my books at writingdirty.com