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  • Excerpt from I Don’t Want to Need You
  • Megan Milks (bio)

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

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.

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