The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else’s erased life: I rolled him into this as if into hell.

Her body, draped in towel and steam, shines with need. Even the gelid air strokes her like a sex toy.

silenced by a sweet and gelid smile

His ears filled with a dense, hollow din, and gelid waves breathed on his brow.

The husband looks at me, gelid. I’ve just attacked the woman he loves and would like to have a family with