See a little light

My submission for Lance's 100 Word Song, where the song this week was Bob Mould's See A Little Light.  This is decidedly not the type of music I'd prefer to be listening to, but I'm sure lots of people said the same when I went with Radiohead's vastly unpopular Idioteque two weeks ago.  So I played along anyway.  Wikipedia tells me that this Bob Mould character raised a ton of money to support the legalization of same-sex marriage.  And that is something I can get behind.  So that's where I went with it.

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“You’ve never been ashamed a minute in your life.”  It was a statement, not a question, as she traced the curve of my shoulder with a single finger.  I smiled, taking the last draw off my cigarette before dropping it into the glass of scotch beside the bed.

“There’s no time for it,” I said.  “There’s hardly time for this,” I said, kissing the spot just beneath her ear.  “And I’d much rather do this.”

In the shower later, I would attack my skin with soap, bruising my breasts red with the effort of becoming clean enough to go home.

(Sorry for the whole don't-publish-jack-for-days-and-then-publish-twice-in-two-hours thing.  I stick to a schedule on Trifecta.  I can't be expected to keep it up over here, too.)