A Collection

I really enjoyed reading that. Thanks so much for sharing! I really wish I could point at something to criticize, but... I guess I'm not much of a critic. Like Tobias and Kurtle already said, the imagery is wonderful, and the feeling of self-doubt is one that I'm sure everyone can relate to.

Thank you! I originally intended to focus more intently on a specific metaphor. In this case, I tried to write as if I were a teenager discovering his place in the society of both genders (the knife would refer to his penis); pondering an inherent urge to breed (which, I believe, can be confused in our minds as "the will of our fathers before us") and the dismissal of his believed mission to breed for breeding's sake alone. By the time I got to the quintain, I sorta entered the same mindset as the narrator's and started going all over the place with my own questions. Nevertheless, self-identification would be the theme in either.

Also, stab me.

Your kinkiness knows no bounds.