The man wobbled his jaw. “Her face is contorted in beautiful agony. Her pain is what draws the beauty of her voice in contrast. The better the musician, the more beautiful her song.”
Annie Neugebauer
Annie Neugebauer has stories and poems appearing in more than seventy publications, including magazines such as Cemetery Dance and Black Static, as well as anthologies such as Bram Stoker Award finalist The Beauty of Death and #1 Amazon bestseller Killing It Softly. She’s a columnist for Writer Unboxed and LitReactor. You can visit her at her website. www.AnnieNeugebauer.com.
Naked
I will strip you bare.
Maxwell’s Demon
sits dangling his tiny legs
(because his feet can’t reach)