he & She

Stumbling on an image on the Internet, he sees a handful of words on the page and then he understands: she’s a dominatrix. The word triggers something inside him. It blows the dust off fantasies trickling back to adolescence, and slowly begins to re-choreograph his decades of sexual memories. Was he ever really the dominant male he thought he was? Did he have a sexual alter-ego? The face on the screen held the answer. He would find out, even if it killed him.