Image: Aaron Siskind – Untitled (Back of man’s head), 1960
TIMIDITIES
at the same time…in and out of…i was going to
in front of me … he was going to … for the first time
the back of my…in front of him…i could feel his
i want you to…the back of his…the end of the
on top of me…was going to be…in front of the
in the middle of … the edge of the … he looked at me
i didn’t want to … you want me to … i could feel the
on the bed and…he said as he…do you want to
up and down the…i told him i…for a long time
i don’t want to … he told me to … on the back of
for a few minutes…up and down on…as soon as i
and i could feel … after a few minutes … at the end of
the middle of the…as much as i…the side of the
what he was doing … i told him that … i knew he was
if you want to…the front of his…the first time i
i looked at him…looked at me and…on the edge of
and i felt his…the other side of…the top of his
asked me if i…all of a sudden… a couple of times
i was able to … didn’t know what to … i was about to
i could see the…what was going on…by the time i
i said as i…was the rst time…on the other side
i didn’t know what … and told me to … the rest of his
back of my head … he told me that … i looked up at
down on the bed … i don’t know what … to be able to
for a couple of…his hand on my…for the rest of
to go to the…i could feel my…what are you doing
in front of his … sat down on the … look on his face
in the locker room…i had no idea…i went to the
i knew i was…i opened my mouth…was one of the
so that he could … what i was doing … it was time to
and i could see … if i wanted to … you don’t have to
know what to do… looked up at me…i told him to
other side of the … so that i could … in front of my
up and down my…on the floor and…as soon as he
i thought to myself … he wanted me to … i could tell he
he gave me a…looked up at him…he said with a
it felt so good … i closed my eyes … he didn’t want to
a couple of minutes…is a work of…the two of us
walked over to the … i am going to … he looked up at
for a few seconds … told me that he … got out of the
i got up and…are you going to…what do you mean
as he continued to … he let out a … smile on his face
a bit of a…a work of fiction…what do you think
Corpus: The complete gay erotic stories from nifty.org/nifty/gay; retrieved May, 2015; approx. 57 million tokens at 1 million types.
Process: The first 140 4-grams of the corpus were listed by frequency; obscenities were eliminated, and the result was concatenated with ellipses
Hannes Bajohr is a Berliner in Brooklyn who writes digital literature as part of the writers’ collective 0×0a. Timidities is <a href="http://www.readux.net/books/timidities
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