Part 1: Mating Season

Even the Christians were getting all kinds of action.

Lilia watched them while she waited for Sofia, feeling a hole open up inside her.

Theodore always said that people only fucked in movies. “It’s not really like that,” he would scoff whenever a sex scene came on. “Not in real life. Nobody does that.” 

Lilia wasn’t sure when this notion had become one of her core assumptions about life, but now, on Easter Sunday, in the church parking lot, she watched it dissolve in a storm of petals.