Once You Go Black

Please don’t go back

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

My breathing was deep. I consciously deepened it to slow my drumming heart.

“Samuel, don’t fail me now,” I said.

Samuel was the name of my penis, a name given to it by an ex, making reference to Shaft, a character played by Samuel L. Jackson. I liked it so I kept it, using it with other women.