A Thousand Words

"They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if it costs everything?"

The picture arrived on my phone with her accompanying message:This one?I tapped, made it full screen. Gasped involuntarily. The deep blue off-the-shoulder dress brought out the same colour in her eyes, dark tresses cascading forward into the lens, backlit by...

Closer

"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire."

Even though I'd craved it, the intensity of his kiss still takes me by surprise. The clubbers who surround us dissolve with the music into the curling dry ice. Even alcohol is secondary to the passion I taste as our...