Elizabeth Evenson-Dencklau — The Monarch Review

Good Enough – Elizabeth Evenson-Dencklau

Monday, June 2, 2014 11:41 — 1 Comment

A phone vibrates from across the room, the tone inaudible from its resting place beneath the trousers he’d dropped. As he rolls off her, she can feel the cheap motel mattress. A cold trickle of sweat carves a path down her leg before seeping into the sheets. Turning her face away, she buries it in the pillow, inhaling the scent of sweat and aftershave. The man turns, the phone in his hand still buzzing insistently, like the last mosquito of summer.