“And Father.”
“Idiots! They can become sperm cells.”
“That’s not legal.”
“Not yet. I don’t screw customers. I was wiping my eyes when Mother knocked. Actually, I wanted to email work and half of the women I’d dominated successfully and otherwise. It was dead. I didn’t ask her, why now after seven years. Not yet.”
Words left me. She took to sex with Ed like a lab rat to cocaine. He hates women.”
“But he’s a lesbian.”
“Themz jus’ werds.”
“He didn’t hide his sex. I tackled the heap closest to me. We always hung out at my- I stopped for a teary moment. I stayed up, reading an online manual for submissives. He was already estranged from his parents. We shared Grandpop’s old apartment, impoverished by law. I was able to save enough to buy a small home on the other side of town. It was time for a talk. Just one dating website would keep her in hot hetrosex for the rest of her vagina’s warrantee. How much of an apology do I owe?”
“To me? I’ll call your grandfather.”
“I’m not going!” I threw off Mother’s arms. I ate the whole bowl.
