Tall Tales With Short Cocks by Arthur Graham

Humanity’s legendary scale-bellied creep is also a creeping sex machine on the earth:

Slithering across the harsh desert…sliding on one’s belly over the hot sands…is a markedly more pleasurable experience when one’s soft, vulnerable skin has given way to hard, unfeeling scales…see the world from such an ideal vantage… For now, the narrator is a reptile, a snake. How can the young narrator be oblivious to what he describes, dust clouds, and not (at the time) cognizant of scales? Does the narrator need an editor? OK it’s a story. Though I wasn’t cognizant of it at the time, my skin had begun to resemble the scales of a certain reptile native to the area – fine, brown grains of sediment adhering to the sweatiest patches, while the coarser, yellow component formed layers over the drier spots. I could barely feel anything at all, frankly, oblivious even to the billowing clouds of dust that were now beginning to whip across the high desert plateau. …So there I sat… for the first time in my life I no longer felt abusing myself in such a manner. I do remember being surprised by a Faulkner corncob rape, but, like humor, surprise is personal and varies with experience. You didn’t think I was rubbing myself raw to Faulkner, did you? Honestly, I’m surprised you’re so surprised. The narrator assumes that the reader is surprised: Whoever the editor is–the unnamed narrator, a young orphan who remembers “days of reading and masturbating in my room” but doesn’t remember, at the time of telling, what his age was (17 or 28)–is dumped by auntie and uncle into the cruel sea of the outside world with his heavy burden, a suitcase filled with dirty magazines.

Noun - an article presenting the opinion of the editor. The following (edited) definitions of editorial are from : The following is my editorial of Arthur Graham’s Editorial (Bizarro Press Edition, 149 pages).

Tall Tales With Short Cocks by Arthur Graham