"It wouldn’t be long before James would be here but I just couldn’t wait."
I had been home all day, pacing the floorboards and waiting for James to arrive. I had taken an early flight to our holiday home and because of work, he would be following a day behind me.I tossed and turned...
"She found the perfect dress and he fucked her in it."
I’m not a huge fan of shopping, it’s fair to say. The traipsing around, the, “can I help you, sir?” The indecision, the waiting, the trying not to get caught flirting with the cuter shop assistants. But it’s all worthwhile...
"Part of an ongoing series about Annabelle's search."
It was Sunday afternoon, and I was ready. The apartment was neat and tidy again, and my laundry was clean, damp, and bagged by the front door. When Steve left last night, I wasn't thinking clearly enough to ask him...
"Melissa’s anticipation grew and grew – until she was at breaking point."
Melissa paced the floorboards of her flat; it was a waiting game after all. She had prepared everything and was ready to go. Her phone pinged and she read the message, prepared a few more things and put on her...
"Suddenly I was homeless and my future uncertain."
My name is Charles Dickredy and I have lived in the Norfolk Broads, in the year of our lord of eighteen thirty eight, for all of my seventeen years. I know not why I relate this story of love and...
The rooms were tidy; spotless, even. She liked it that way and yet the longer she paced through them alone, the more anxious she became. The apartment didn’t look homely enough; it suddenly seemed too clean and clinical. She stood...
"Anna offers some fast food for Steve"
After adding the lunch dishes to what was already in the dishwasher, I started it, and dressed for Mass. I wasn’t sure that Steve would be at St. Michael’s on Sunday, but since he had been at a bar with...
"This is how we make him ours."
Here we are again. He’s so… something. We don’t really know what it is, but it is compelling. On our knees before him, with our heads either hovering in front of him or resting against his thigh. We are leaning...
"Anastasia Popov was a flirt. A very big flirt."
Alexei bit his lip as he walked down the corridor to his office. He had a ten thirty, one-to-one with Anastasia Popov. He was her tutor and she was hard work. He was utterly confounded as to why she was...
