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I know I’ve posted Ben Greenman’s stories already for the Story of the Day, but I’m just about to head out to an event in Bryant Park for Underwater New York, which Greenman will be a part of, and I couldn’t resist sharing this story. “Barn,” appeared in FiveChapters.com (one of my favorite online literary journals), and can be found in Greenman’s new collection, What He’s Poised To Do:

“I guess I felt sorry for him, because I went back to his house after that, but we didn’t do anything except sit around on the couch with the outsides of our legs touching each other. Then he leaned over and kissed my shoulder. His lips were cool on my skin.”