The thumping of ravenous hearts bolstered the bass that shook both the walls and the creatures confined within them. The dance floor was pulsating with convulsing limbs, fluttering hair, and swaying hips. Stifled urges saturated the air as they eyed each other, gauged each other, breathed each other in. They bathed in each other's sweat as their demonstratio...
It is the morning after the Saturday wine tasting. Carol and I made love the evening before. She was still sleeping but I was restless. I was up early despite the cold front that moved through overnight I made my half-hour walk around my neighborhood. I had coded lock on the back door so I did not need my keys. I touched the numbers on the keypad and heard t...
{My name is Debra, married to my husband Danny. I am a Doctor, and I head up our local medical clinic. Danny writes all the time, I normally don't. Danny and I both are getting older, and time without fail gets in the way of life. So, there have been some upsets with Danny, and Medicare has spent close to 100K keeping my man alive which I appreciate. That...
"What's going to happen to her Maurice?" Chessa asked. "I don't know Chessa. But what I do know, is that she didn't kill that girl and she won't be going to jail for something she didn't do. I'm going to make sure of that." "You promise?" Francessca asked softly. "Baby, I'm not going to let anything happen to our girl. Ok?" "Ok." "Now I have to go. I...
The beach today is as white and pristine as any other day. As I watch the waves lazily roll in and out, the sun sets on the horizon. The huge orange orb seems to sizzle as it sinks slowly into the ocean. The water is always calm this time of day, the breeze cools my skin. Lush green palm leaves waft above my head as I stare at the setting sun. This island pa...
"Liz Baker has added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Liz in order for you to be friends on Facebook." Tom glanced at this subject line, halfway down a long list of unread emails that had accumulated on his laptop over the long weekend. He smiled. It had been almost thirteen years since he had met Liz at Duke. They had been in t...
"This really sucks." I lay next to my friend James, touching him at hip, knee and ankle. It was three a.m. and three hours away from him leaving. "It's only a week," he said. A week. Might as well be a year. Ten years, a millennium. "Six months I wait for this moment and now you're gone." "Whose fault is that?" he asked. "Oh, shut up." The truth was--if...
I had seen her at a stop light while driving around looking for a spot to eat. She drove a red Pontiac Sunfire, the convertible kind that no self-respecting man would be caught dead in. She was gorgeous, at least from what I saw from my elevated platform of the SUV I was driving. She was petite, her frame looked so slender but with just enough muscle to it...
If you haven't already, I suggest reading "Office Hours" and "A Second Visit during Office Hours" to get up to speed. * * * I had graduated and ventured out into that scary void known to college students as "the real world." My reaction was similar to others in my situation: "Now what?" After pondering this question for a good amount of time, I realize...
There exist few moments when a simple "yes" or "no", a quick nod or glance, a simple missed opportunity can alter an experience. "If only I had..." or "I wish I would have just asked her...", or "How could I not have noticed?" If only I had known then what I know now. Sometimes you miss these opportunities...but...sometimes you don't. It was the spring of m...