I spent the first few days stewing about my mother being gone and having to delay the breaking of her heart. I still did not know how I did it. The days were a blur of cleaning, yoga, writing out what I would say, and thinking of my sweet Erskine. Ah, yoga class, the man who had started flirting with me, continued to try to pursue me. I put up my best defens...
This was it. Who would have thought that reading an article in a magazine about a website would lead to this moment? I took another look in the mirror at myself and smoothed a hand over the imaginary wrinkles in my dress. I'd met him through the message board of a site I had become hooked on after reading an article on it. Our casual friendship had taken...
For a woman to feel and think the way she did wasn't loose morals, she battled with herself. When she was ten, she overheard her mother on a bitter rampage about dirty ladies who double-pierced their ears and carried prophylactics in their purse. At the time she had no idea what a prophylactic was but remembered thinking that having an extra earring sounded...
Changi Airport is one of the best airports in the world. It is quite possible the only one where a passenger can clear a customs and immigration checkpoint, reunite with their luggage, and be in a cab in thirty minutes. Right now, though, I hated that efficiency with a burning passion. Were this a typically glacial airport, I'd be guaranteed another ten or...
The alarm sounded and I fumbled to turn it off still half asleep! "Urgghh!" I heard myself say knowing I couldn't afford to snooze, I knew I'd fall back into a deep sleep and today I just couldn't afford to be late under any circumstances. Pulling back the quilt I threw my legs out and stood up and as I stumbled to the door I realised I had a raging stiffy...
"Come check it out up here, Neve." "Paul, I told you, I just don't see the point. I mean--" "Just come up." "Alright." She still didn't see the point, but she hoisted herself onto the lifeguard chair anyway. Paul was surveying the wide swath of beach, teeming with oiled and tanned flesh that sparkled in the noon sun. "Look at all those people." He pulle...
After moving into the new house, I discovered all sorts of small projects to address. The first, and most annoying, was the steady drip of hot water in the bathroom. The tap set was shot – probably original hardware for the late 1950s style bungalow, and the shut-off valve wasn’t working either. While I pride myself on being pretty handy, I just didn’t feel...
Author's Note: This story is fiction, but it is based loosely on real events in my life. The names have been changed, of course. This story is the way I've chosen to remember those events, even though they didn't really happen in exactly this way. * * * * * According to the signs we passed on I-95, we were passing New Haven. We still had at least two more...
Come on guys and girls, let’s have a show of hands. When you were in college did you pick your friends based on how they looked? Were there people who you’d talk to in class or when passing each other in the dorm but who you wouldn’t want to be seen with socially because you were concerned about what you thought your friends would say? It’s okay, you can adm...
"Ok, guys, who wants to be first?" the ladies asked simultaneously. "First!" Shintani exclaimed. "My god, we're too hot to wait in line! Guys, everyone grab someone and let's get started!" "'Grab,' my ass!" Deborah said. Four or five of the men started toward her, faces alight with eager lust. "Back off, shitheads!" Helle exclaimed. "She wasn't asking you...