White Chocolate

Aimee Parkison

If white chocolate isn’t really chocolate, we have a problem because white chocolate is my favorite chocolate in all the world. In the candy shop, in rooms of white chocolate, the woman who makes the candy tells me not to be afraid to love food too much because I just have to eat it to make it go away. I don’t want to love something so much I destroy it. I need it inside me. I want the candy, to have it, but it keeps going away, like the dreams I have where I am a child again. In these dreams, a girl comes to visit me and her face is white chocolate. I love her and want to be her friend. She agrees to be my friend and to sleepover. At night, when she is sleeping in the bed beside me, I pretend to sleep. When she wakes, it takes her a while to realize her lips and nose are gone. She places her hand over the hole where her left eye is covered in my bite marks.

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About Author

Aimee Parkison is the author of eight books, including Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Parkison is Professor of Fiction Writing at Oklahoma State University and serves on the FC2 Board of Directors. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals such as North American Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Five Points. Her newest story collection, Suburban Death Project, is available from Unbound Edition. Her recent co-authored collection, Disappearing Debutantes with Meg Pokrass, is available from OutPost19. More information about Parkison’s writing is available http://www.aimeeparkison.com/

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