Today I was planning a pesto with salami and spring onions. I grabbed everything I needed for that recipe, along with the usual staples such as pasta and flour. The fact that there weren't hardly any women around made shopping a more relaxing experience. I can't really explain it to you but the constant attention that they give me sometimes makes me nervous...
Ada Beech poked her bowl of kimchi with a flimsy plastic fork. A staple of North Korean cuisine, the traditional dish of salted and fermented vegetables seemed to be all that was on offer aboard the carrier Baekdusan. Even seasoned with gochugaru, spring onions, garlic, ginger or jeotgal, the monotony of the same food day in and day out was beginning to mak...
She met him at the front door at the end of his working day, kissed him and laid his briefcase on the floor at the foot of the stairs. Taking him by the hand she led him into the lounge, pulled a chair from under the table and turned it round to face him. She pushed him down to sit and straddled her legs across him leaning in close to kiss him harder, her ha...
4: Sharon and Ben. Tuesday. The day after the day before. Autumn had settled in. Nature was preparing for hibernation and the landscape was cast in strewn shades of burnished copper. The air was crisp this morning as I walked along a gravel path that wound its way through the nearby woods. I stood for a moment and breathed deeply of its freshness as I thou...
Once there were two kingdoms, with two kings. The southern most was warm and fair, with long summers and ample harvest. But the northern one was cold and dark, with little light and fields that grew few crops even when they were not covered with snow. Two kings were brothers. They ruled the lands separated by a single river; one the bright, sunny land, where...
Emily was there before me. The two of them were sitting cosily in the kitchen over a glass of bucks fizz. I guessed I was doing the driving. She jumped to her feet as I entered the kitchen in front of Rosie. She enveloped me in her arms and gave me a big French kiss. 'Darling I have missed you so much these last few months. Where have you been?' 'Nowhere s...
Benny's Paper Round When I returned from touring interstate in my campervan, the garden had welcomed me home by showing off its weeds and over-growth of grass where flowers and vegetables could normally have been seen from the back door leading to the yard. I thought the garden could wait a little longer. There were plenty of other things I had to occupy...
This is a long story, a story about sharing my then girlfriend, now wife, with a guy. The conversations contained in this tale are for the most part true and only stray from the truth because I can't remember everything word for word. I appreciate that some people are turned off by this type of story so I will say to them that you should read it if it might...
I looked at my phone as it started buzzing at 17.59hrs, the ringtone was on loud as well: "Remember this aria?" Says Jennifer Beale's character, the faint strains of opera in the background. "Oh," says Leisha Hailey's character thoughtfully, "You mean our third date? When you finger fucked me at the Opera? Before telling me you didn't think we were right fo...
It was a sultry night, and Yang glanced over her shoulder as she hastened towards the home of Shihuangdi. It was not uncommon for a mistress of the Emperor Hsüan-Tsung to visit the elderly pharmacist, but their complaints were usually gynecological in nature. Yang's malady was somewhat more embarrassing than a tear in the walls of her labia from the Emperor'...