"Our new house overlooks a women's dorm"
B-school classes. Unfinished taxes. Need anti-acids. Everything still in boxes.“You say something, Sweetie?” Laurel looks up from her Netflix binge. Relaxed as a cat.Not like me. “The Zantac?” I ask. Stomach in knots.“Spare room. Carton labeled ‘Bath.’”Moved Friday. Needs paint,...
"We are all prisoners of our own device..."
I’d hit a rough patch in my personal life. So I book a week at a Club Med, hoping to get lucky with a willing partner. To find an uncomplicated woman. And I have a few questions weighing on my...
"Something wicked cums my way..."
For my thirtieth birthday, I give myself a week at Club Med. Work is going great. Youngest partner in the firm, and all that. Personal life? Not so much. Samantha left with my best friend a while ago. The airport lounge...
"A shy girl’s first taste of oral sex."
“Salty sweet like caramel sea salt ice cream,” Billy says out of nowhere. Alice looks around. Billy’s the cute guy from Poli-Sci 101. Alice is the shy girl who’s not comfortable in her own skin. Can’t be talking to her?“Or maybe...
"“Ever see a naked gymnast?” Gina whispered, unfolding a three-way mirror from the wall"
Gina was always in the background of my summers, although back then she was so small that I thought of her as a little kid, if I thought about her at all.Small in size, not spirit. In some ways, Gina was...
"It isn't Tracey, but Tracey's Mom who watches me intently from the darkness"
"I hear she's a divorcee with a teen-age daughter," Mom hisses to one of her Love-Street friends in a voice dripping with disapproval.My parents have owned a lakefront cottage in the Love Street development for as long as I can...
""Jason," she whispers. "Show me how you touch yourself.”"
“Yes!" I shout to Tom as we toss our helmets and pads into our lockers.I’d gotten the green light to accompany Tom to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving. The only hitch, I promise to tour UCLA and USC."No problem," Tom replies...
"A shy music student displays an uncanny talent for Asian massage."
When a Korean family rents a nearby Summer cottage, my dear mother volunteers me as an unpaid woodwind tutor. My student is a pretty college freshman named Su-Yun. Actually, she’d be a knockout if she weren't so painfully shy. She has...
""Umm," Mary asks shyly, "Do you think I could have have a turn now?""
An unfamiliar local number flashes on my cell-phone screen.”Hi, Mary. It’s Wendy!”Someone has the wrong number. But the voice is young and pleasantly feminine with a familiar intonation."Yes. This is Mary,” I tease."My, what a deep voice you have," Wendy...
""Wait," Gretchen says, pushing me off the sofa. "Do it standing up so I can see better.""
I’m still unpacking when there’s a soft tap at my door. The girl who introduces herself as Gretchen, my Residential Advisor, has blonde ringlets, pale blue eyes, and a willowy frame that accentuates coltish legs that go on forever. Even in...