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“It starts with Kim. Even though Emeka is expecting her, he is still startled by her presence in his bedroom; the way she steps around the strewn clothes like a guest, but then sits on his bed as if she’s done it a hundred times before, parking her jacksie on the Thundercats quilt cover that was, up until this moment, his pride and joy. Now he’s just embarrassed by it. ‘You alright?’ she says, but he doesn’t reply. He’s eyeing the straight hair, pulled into a bun, the hooped earrings, the loose Coca-Cola rugby shirt that hangs off her body, the snatch of a bra-strap, the tight pull of the laces on her Hi-Tec Squash. He’s thinking about her outside of these things, or maybe in just some of these things: in the shirt, but without the jeans, in the jeans but without the shirt. He’s thinking about all the things he’s seen in the crumpled and tattered magazines he has pulled from beneath his brother’s mattress, all the theatrical squeals and thrills on VHS cassettes." GLIMPSE