I become an escort again in my 50s. * "Was it really that long Christina?" "Yes I was just out of uni." "When was it?" "Er I was twenty five so it was nineteen ninety." "Jesus nearly thirty years ago. It's gone so quickly." "It seems to as you get older." "That's true I'm in my sixties now." "You don't look it," I said sipping my wine. "Neither do...
The perks of a business like mine still surprised me sometimes. I was accompanying Jackie Morrison and key members of her staff to New York City for a quarterly board meeting. I had been to a couple of these when I was with Artists Unlimited, but for low-level employees like me, they seemed more an excuse to steal cigars or bottles of booze out of the bosses...
I thought the Ferry Tales were finished. Then I had an email from Pushpa, which, by luck, found me in Spain, working in one of the advanced English language courses I participate in. Pushpa and I keep in touch, in case we can coincide in space and time, and yet again gratify each other. I had relayed her account of the week with Alex and Sasha (Chapter 6), a...
When I was young and naive, I did a lot of stupid things, the stupidest of which was to run off with a much older man. His name was Gerry, a former marine with a serious booze problem who was fast losing his grip on reality. Within a month, we'd been evicted from our fleapit apartment and were living in his car. Gerry tried desperately to pimp me out to mak...
A set of headlights turn and pull into a nearby vacant lot, stopping near one of the overhead lights to reveal a dark sedan. It's driver's side opens to reveal a man looking to be in his mid thirties wearing a grey suit, taking a long drag from a cigar before tossing it onto the ground. Stepping over it and making his way towards the building in front of him...
In 'Pygiaphilia' I introduced my long-ago lover, Alan, and his earliest adventure, going on in 'Semper Figura Chapters 1 and 2' to chronicle his next encounters, resident in his home town in Southern Rhodesia, as it then was, in 1942. Soon after, he came to England, not before learning that his youngest partner, was not pregnant. He served as a navigator in...
If you were to Google hotels in and near San Diego you'd have a chance of guessing where we were staying two summers ago. Our fifth floor room in this U shaped hotel had a side view of the ocean from the balcony, but it was within about 4 rooms from the ocean facing one. If offered a great view of the beach and the courtyard below. I know about San Diego hea...
CHAPTER 10: SORREL'S BATHTIME "Steve, can you soap my back please?" called Sorrel from the bathroom at the back of the house. I forced myself away from our bedroom window from where I'd been watching Eve's house and walked along the upstairs landing. Light spilled out through a six inch gap around the open bathroom door. When there was just the two of us, w...
"Burgh.. Confound it!" A lady with attractive and refined features, was perched on the edge of a sofa. Attired in a full floral dress, shiny black heels and pearls. Her greying, dark hair bunched up into a severe looking, matronly-like bun. She was determinedly, and with just a touch of exasperation, attempting to fasten shut a suspender clasp to the welt...
Ch 4 - My Role Is A Lie Ria hung loosely with her arms suspended above her, trying her best to fall asleep. As it was, her position would allow no such comfort. Her eyelids were drooping and she felt exhausted beyond compare, but repose would not pass over her. Her body clock told her that it was near midnight; the lighting in the room made her feel like i...