Hindsight by Trevor Dodge
“my dick. She saw it from her rear-view mirror.”
Fiction by Trevor Dodge
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When I met her the first part of me she got a good look at was my dick. She saw it from her rear-view mirror. My brother and her was friends and teased each other and talked dirty but never done nothin'. That’s what they both say, anyway. And according to him she was always telling him to whip it out in public, in places he never would, and he wouldn’t anyway because my brother is a chicken-shit sissy.
So me and him are behind her in the Taco Bell drive-thru. She’s in her Honda and we’re on the 4-wheeler, street legal and everything. And there’s a long line and it ain't movin' very fast, like it ain't movin' at all, so they get to chattering after she sees who’s behind her and she says what she says and of course he won’t do it.
But me, I will. So I stand full up straight on the front tires and whip it out right there and piss on her back bumper, right below the license plate. And she damn well knew what she saw because I could see her neck craning into her rear-view mirror twice and three times and her hands come up to in front of her face and then she finally come out of the car, turn my way just before I’m putting the snake away. And she definitely didn’t look me in the eye before I did it neither.
Later that night we got nice and acquainted and she kissed me but she made sure it was down there before she got me anywhere else, dragged that crooked little smile of hers across me, plucked my hair out of her teeth before she jammed them past my lips. She didn’t say a word but she didn’t have to neither. I knew she was saying hello.
First impressions, you know. They last forever.
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Trevor Dodge's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Hobart, Golden Handcuffs Review, Natural Bridge and Fiction International. He is the author of two collections of short fiction (The Laws of Average and Everyone I Know Lives On Roads), a novella (Yellow #10), and collaborator (with Lance Olsen) on the writing anti-textbook Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing. Trevor hosts the creative arts podcast Possible Architect, lives in Portland, OR, and can be found online at his official website.