Metonymy by Alex Schillinger

I am a nameless lying next to a nameless. She, after a long lapse in words or moans or movement, says “There would be fewer divorcees if the movies would just stop calling it ‘making love.’” And I realize she says those things that I want to hear and she doesn’t what I don’t. She has become I with red hair and lipstick and a skirt too short for her legs and she would stay a nameless for as long as I couldn’t come up with a name for her and she was perfect.

Alex Schillinger is a senior at Eastern Michigan University majoring in Creative Writing and English Linguistics.