Love arrived like sunstroke. Though when we met, at water’s edge,amidst a crowd of suncreamed kidswho kicked the surf,it was too early then, by far.I thought your eyesthe only handsome thing about you:generous and blue; expressiveas your hands, which, gesturing, did...
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I have been with my boyfriend Brad for six months, and he is almost perfect. I am in love with his body and all its senses – its taste and its smell and how it tenses when we fuck. But deeper...
If you were to listen to her mother, Anna possessed all the attributes required to make millions from the sport of tennis. She had raw talent – though, God knows, she was wasting it. She was pretty too: long legs, a...
She didn’t realise until her kids had dragged her up to the glowing pumpkin at his door.By then, too late – they’d pressed the bell; he’d opened the door. She backed into the shadows.‘Trick – or treat,’ her kids chorused.He...
Alice woke Jake in the middle of a sentence.“When I was sixteen,” she was saying, “I pretended I had a year to live. I imagined death getting closer every day. It changed me.”Jake rubbed his eyes open. They lay naked,...
It was only as the train pulled away, and his journey home had begun that Colin had a moment to properly reflect: when married men forget about Valentine’s Day, it’s difficult to recover.In Colin’s defence, his wife, Angela, had said...
He grabbed her at the fireside.She said: “Wait. The kids…”She knew he was deaf, though, the way he wrestled her down and pulled up her silly elf dress and twisted her panties over.“… might hear…” she said, into the carpet.He...
When Orla McCready went missing, everyone suspected her parents.That was because the McCreadys were Christian fundamentalists whose piety was infamous. Isolated in their cottage down by Fairyhill woods, they kept Orla locked away at weekends, with the windows shuttered. She...
Things would have been simpler if they had never met Billy.That much is certain – though Jasmine and Neil would never agree who was to blame for what followed. Maybe both; maybe neither; maybe the root cause lay with the...
I am sexually involved with a member of my family.Conditions and qualifications apply, but I wanted to get that statement out there. Get the worst over with.I know there is a risk to that admission as a leading statement. You...