Caroline Eikenberry is an up and coming horror and science fiction writer. She traces her influence from the early pioneers of the genre such as Asimov and Bradbury. Her work has been published in several online journals and printed anthologies as well as entertaining her friends and family. She currently resides in the rust covered northwest United States with three cats and a Big Foot. (She married the latter for some reason.)

Hold Inches
By Caroline Eikenberry

I want to make love to you.
Pause.
In the rain,
In the open,
In a field with nothing
To shield me from the rain
Or you.
Stop.
Pressed on top of me.
Loving
Me
With every inch of
…your body
… your soul
Nothing.
I want you to feel
All I have
As I feel
All you have.
Naked in the rain.