Matthew Goldsmith

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“The Age of Denial” by Matthew Goldsmith

Submitted to Contest #290

I watch movies for the sex and porn for the story—no wonder I’m always on the wrong side of my own life. Next to me was Claire from Philadelphia. I was annoyed to realize even girls like her, ridiculous at twenty-eight in braids and leg warmers, considered me old. She sat up and posed, arms folded on legs splayed, more mawkish than a kitten. I couldn’t help but think she looked better over cocktails in the dark than in the flat Hong Kong afternoon light. I had been fooling her about my age all along. Too much truth at the beginning of anythi...

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