The following is an excerpt from Sam Cohen's novel SARAHLAND forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in March 2021.
Themes in this story include: surrealism, erotic moments with girls with cat heads, sex with an ex-bully with a penis
Here you go, driving down the highway, short shorts riding up, thick thighs spread and sweaty on the leather of the driver’s seat. It’s the desert but not the gorgeous rocky kind. Instead it’s the all-tan kind, barren except for some dinky brush. You’re covered in a layer of grease from when you force-opened your tin of lip balm and, melted to liquid, it splashed all over you.
Now you feel like a plump and juicy bird, like your skin might bubble up crisp. Your AC broke, and you’re pouring water all ove...
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