- Excerpt from I Don’t Want to Need You
Chapter 1
I definitely feel like part of me is missing I just feel like - I don’t know I feel bad for
good I’m feeling good feel like total crap
this feels normal I feel feel like nothing
his breath is hot on my t-shirt and I can no longer feel
Chapter 3
feel like I sucked at making him feellikes to feel needed make me feel needed make him feel better feel neededI feel him relax can physically feelI get the feeling [End Page 151]
Chapter 6
have you told him how you’re feeling feel like I can’t even talk hard for him to feel how you feel feel like I’m going to cry
he can’t feel can’t feel can’t feel
I can feel feel my own dick it feels so fucking feel
Chapter 7
I talked to him about my feelings every shitty feeling every negative feeling
my smiles don’t feel feel his vocal chords vibrate makes me feel sohe can make me feel so I can’t feel anything but it is intense
I feel his hands slipI adjust to the feel can feel his cock pulsing
I don’t feel broken I don’t feel ashamedI’m not going to be able to feel [End Page 152]
Chapter 11
feel my cheeks warm worst feeling in the worldyou didn’t have feelings admit your feelings about my feelings
and how were you feeling my collarbone has been feeling feel his arm around meand his lips blowing little puffs of air against my skin
Chapter 12
relaxed and feeling bettertells me how he’s feeling he’s feeling tension lies feeling can’t feel my
I feel when he’s feeling can feel I just feel how you feel what you’re feeling [End Page 153]
Chapter 13
it still feels too good to be truesometimes when I’m feeling a little overwhelmed
I’m not sure how I feel the way I feel feels different
Epilogue
please feelmy throat feel like I feel as I feel touchy feelingSO FULL OF FEELS OF GOOD FEELS [End Page 154]
Megan Milks is the author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories (Emergency) and the chapbook Twins (Birds of Lace). Their fiction has been published in three volumes of innovative writing as well as many journals; and they guest edited The & NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing.