"Friends with benefits adapt to the travel ban."
A little background about me, might at this stage me useful. I am Mark a newly divorced Londoner who is rediscovering life and starting out afresh. After years of deeply unsatisfying, resentful sex, my wife and I went our separate...
"A woman suffering cabin fever decides to host sex toy parties during lockdown in NYC"
"Bring out your dead!"The cries rang up from the street into my Brooklyn apartment, Now while that was humorous in a Python film, here in the real COVID-19 world it was horrifying. The USS Comfort, a naval hospital ship which...
"“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,” William Shakespeare"
“Hey, Natasha,” the editor of Sydney’s trashier daily paper called across the newsroom, a smirk on his overweight face, “Are you eco-curious?”For me, an out and proud young journalist, this kind of banter was a tedious occupational hazard. But one...
"A playful spin on the classic."
“We’ll get through this, Al.”Alice and her sister stared at a three-by-three grid of monitors pinned to the Aspen Orthopedics exam room wall.“If I can’t ski, I may as well be dead.”X-rays glowed on the displays showing various angles of...
Words hurt, but a knife wounds with the sharper pain.He had admired the Russian Sami people for creating two hundred words to describe snow and ice. That eloquence used to impress; less so now her lexicon of inadequacy had grown...
"Some guys get all the luck, whether they deserve it or not."
Kimberly and Todd made their way out of the Fire Cats nightclub and laughed as they tried to decide where to go next, settling on going back to her house for a drink and a little ‘fun'. They were enjoying...
"South of the equator Halloween falls in spring"
The wedding invitation, blood-red script on black, didn’t surprise. However, the time and place did pique my curiosity. Aza and Harri’s wedding was precisely timed, six minutes past eleven on Halloween in the Terminus Chapel at Rookwood cemetery.Now Rookwood wasn’t...
"Discovering my girlfriend's unladylike desires"
“A fucking lady? No way; how, why?” I babbled, shocked.“Lady, darling; the word is always capitalised,” Cyn, my girlfriend of four months, clarified, “I’m Lady Cynthia Fortescue-Smythe, second daughter of Edward, the Earl of Battersea."“And you are me telling this,...
"Finding more ways to have fun."
I’m an older guy and having been divorced for a while, my sex life has been somewhat a non-existence thing. With being in a loveless relationship with my ex-wife and then being an older single guy, it just didn’t make...
"An anthology of five separate shorts, connected by pride."
PrincessMy mind is a fucking slugfest. Muhamed Ali versus George Foreman. The Rumble in the Jungle. I sit in my car, pensive. Two massive personalities square off inside my indecisive head. Punch after punch controlling my every thought.In one corner,...