A breeze in the dark field, the earthy sweetness of poppies the same after all these years. One glint of moonlight made her eyes oceans or vast ancient forests. When inside her, dark starfires, violent rainbows. No experience, just feral young need....
competition
Trial and Tribute
"Winner takes all"
Troy crested the ridge, orange light from the twin suns illuminating weary features. He’d made it. Survived.The meadow stretched below him, prize as yet unseen on the central knoll.Negotiating boulder-strewn terrain he plunged into grass, shedding clothes as he advanced....
Stolen Kisses
"An afternoon delight ..."
The wind softly blowing onto the fields in tempo with the birds serenading from afar. A good time for an afternoon walk. A woman's faint moan like relishing a pleasurable dessert in contrast with the man's groan like he is in pain...
Toys For Us
"A budding writer seeks views from friends about the toy experience."
It's time to enter his first writing competition. The Airbook was open and the fingers poised. The trouble was that the story was about toys, and as a bloke he didn’t really have any experience with toys. Yes, he had watched...
Solo Sex In The Time Of Coronavirus
"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...
Jill in the Box
"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...
Zucchini and the art of environmental maintenance
"“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...
Alice in Winter Wonderland
"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...
A Night Out Becomes A Night In
"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...