Rating: PG-13 for suggestions of f/f interaction and affection.
Series: One of my Lesbian Snippets.
Summary: An exercise in writing about my body from someone else's
viewpoint.
Author's Note: This is actually two snippets, but they're related, so I
put them together.

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Physicality
Ruth Sadelle Alderson
rsadelle@graphousa.net
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I love her body. I've always loved her body. She's all roundness and
curves while I'm sharp angles and flat surfaces. She's confident, too.
She knows she's beautiful, she believes it, even when other people
refuse to see it. She fully admits to being a sexual woman. It scares me
sometimes. I'm afraid she'll leave me. I wake up at night, terrified.
She holds me then and leaning against her softness soothes me back to
sleep.

We're opposites in other ways, too. She's a writer who cooks and hates
to clean. I love sports, I don't mind cleaning, and I work in an office.
Somebody once told me that that must be the reason we're together, that
opposites attract.  When I told her, she just laughed. "That's just a
societal conception designed to reinforce gender differences as a way or
reinforcing gender inequality. I hate to think we live up to that, being
lesbians and all." She chuckled then, and pulled me into a wet,
open-mouthed kiss.

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We were lying in bed one Sunday afternoon. She had turned up the heat
and closed the blinds and then had me lie naked on the bed with her,
just to enjoy our time together. I could never keep my hands off of her.
I always want to touch her. So I did. Just a gentle stroking of my hands
over her body to reassure her and me.

"Your hands," she said as I ran my hands up her legs. "They're so
strong, not like mine."

"I love your hands," I told her. "Your hands write the most beautiful
stories I've ever read." I kissed the palm of her right hand. "Your
hands make the most wonderful apple pie I've ever tasted." I kissed the
palm of her left hand. "And your hands can make me scream like nothing
else." I linked my fingers with hers and lowered my body onto hers. She
kissed me seriously then and I let her show me just how wonderful her
hands are.

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The End.
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