We meet. It's been a long, long time. Almost 25 years. Time has, indeed, marked both of us. We've lost the wide eyed innocence of high school. Lost the sparkle of wonder in our eyes. Lost the rough, patchy skin. Instead, I look in a mirror and see strength touched with vulnerability reflected in my own green eyes. Lines of pain and joy and laughter and tears...
Ruby is sat flicking through a magazine. Mid-twenties, she's been working in the tattoo parlor since college and is soooo bored. So her face lights up when two sissy dumplings mince into the tattoo parlor. She gasps at their ridiculously effeminate outfits that no woman would be caught dead in. She can't believe they've handcuffed themselves together and loc...
Julie Bright had a lot of fun in college. She partied hard, studied diligently, and put in lots of hours at the school gym. But now she had graduated. For the first couple of months after graduation, the green-eyed brunette charged her apartment's rent to her credit cards and ignored the student loan bills. She knew she was supposed to look for a job, but sh...
We're going to dinner this evening but she insists we become intimate "her way" first. The bed has a headboard but no footboard, only the double-twin metal box-spring frames. She ties my legs, well apart, on each side of the headboard, my arms, to each side of the foot of the bed-frame, my head barely supported by the joining of the double-twin mattress. A...
Laurel was busily reshelving books when she first saw him. Alesandr had his head buried in a book and did not see Laurel as she moved her cart into his path, causing him to run into it. Alesandr apologized for his lack of attention to where he was going. Laurel smiled at him and gracefully accepted his apology, then watched him as he continued his stroll, hi...
Private Lesson "Now the topic sentence should be at the top of the page..." Buzz... buzz... buzz I jumped in my seat as my English professor droned on. Trying to keep as quiet as I could, I reached in my pocket and took out the cell phone hidden there. I looked at it quickly and saw the notice of a text message. I smiled as I flipped the phone open to rea...
Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don’t know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...
Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don’t know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...
I know you're here with someone else. I know we have only met for a friendly drink, which was a painful exercise in self-control. I also know you're standing in the corner taking a breather from non-stop small-talk. I stand up from the bar with a glass of wine for you, the same label you had at the restaurant when we met. It's not a great party-rather stuff...
Sometime during the night, Jason had come to bed. I didn't hear him, didn't consciously notice until I woke the next morning to find my arm thrown over his side. I laid against his back, my face buried against his toussled curls as I felt his chest rise and fall with each breath. I closed my eyes and settled back in against him, sighing contentedly against h...