SHE STOOD IN A SHADOWED DOORWAYA Story by ROBERT DAVIDSON
SHE STOOD IN A SHADOWED DOORWAY By Robert Davidson She stood in a shadowed doorway a few moments before stepping out to stroll nonchalantly under a street light. Her white sheath skirt tight to the thigh. A flashy female figure with fading, red-brown hair with face set in lacquer smile. The neon nightscape reflecting in plate glass. She dodging back into the doorway. A police pick-up car cruising past. On the other side of the street a well-fleshed man of forty was eyeing her with bright predatory eye. ‘Roxanne.’ ‘Is that all?’ It’s enough, isn’t it?’ The masculine shape of his voice said he was called Tony - Tony Hart. Turning back to the doorway, her mouth smiling. She beckoned him to follow. A hallway leading to a flight of stone stairs smelling of damp, the banister greasy to the touch. Stairs going up and up steep and dim as ‘I’m disappointed, sorry,’ he said. But a deep, bedrock distrust was hardening her heart. If she were female foolish enough to … No, no, no, she told herself, men must be kept strictly within the four-square enclosure of themselves, and I must keep myself taut and tight within my own self. She said to him: ‘Now you’re terribly male upset, aren’t you? Well, you crossed the forbidden frontier. What must you expect?’ she thought, stiffening, hardening her spine in resistance. They were fitting together for the thrust of lust. But the deeps are dark in the human soul. Feeling herself turn to stone, Roxanne shut tight her mouth, her eyes becoming fixed, her vision in-turned, her body slipping from her as he entered her. She, mentally detached from her body, was thinking of Cherie, the girl who often worked the same beat as herself. Cherie would return to Roxanne’s room later that night. In imagination she felt Cherie’s blood-red lips upon her own. The warmth of the girl’s body and breath. Roxanne was living it all inside her head. Let your mind float, she was telling herself. Cherie, the woman she had come to know better than herself. Tender love kindled, a soft flame lapping her. Yet somewhere on the edge of her mind, or in her heart, Roxanne wept. In a closing of words and doors, it was like a nail being driven through your heart, Tony fancied. He was now beating a retreat. She following him down the stairs to where she stood like an avenging angel in the shadowed doorway. Her look of scorn unnerves, he thought. Enough to destroy the man in a man. Tony felt stiff as a conscience. His lusty night blowing away like dead winter leaves. Copyright 2007 robertdavidson © 2009 ROBERT DAVIDSONReviews
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