“There once was a woman who loved her husband’s cock so much she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.”
All of Sweeney’s trademarks are on show in this one-page story: the almost flippant treatment of time, the arch comedy, concern with the mystery and disappointment of marriage. I could read it every day and still laugh at “the French dish called chicken-in-wine.” Proof that among the many things a short story can be, a dick joke is one of them.
Collected in Modern Times, Stinging Fly Press, 2020
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