"I long for him, and I keep him"
The evening draped itself around me like a lonely shawl, the last light of day fading into an indigo sigh. My apartment, usually a haven of solitude, now echoed with a palpable silence that seemed to amplify my longing—a yearning...
"Clare's backstory..."
It is 1987, the last Sunday in August, and my arm is around Brenda. She is my new bull lesbian girlfriend and my first openly gay relationship. But my life is complicated. I am standing there by the apartment block’s...
"Amy and Mia show me the way to happiness, openness, and freedom."
Amy, indeed, looked like a poor waif from a Dicken’s novel! She had been waiting for a while in the rain. Her hair was soaked and matted against the sides of her face, outlining it in a frame of amber. ...
"Roser struggles to regain her self-esteem after porn. Can a handsome stranger help?"
Sitting in the lecture hall, I strained my vision to read the slides on the screen. They were swimming before my eyes, and the light of the screen set off jolts of pain in my throbbing head. I looked away,...
"A story of redemption through love."
The moment I saw her that autumn afternoon, I knew that I just had to have her. Sitting quietly in the shadows of the empty library, lit only by the lambent warmth of the reading lamp over the desk, her...
"A reversal of the classic ‘plumber’s visit’ trope. A young woman comes to her neighbor, seduces him, and takes his virginity in every possible way."
Marina is a young girl from a big city. She is a manager in a supermarket and lives alone in a small apartment. She is beautiful, smart, and cheerful, even a bit cynical. She has made a few attempts to...
"In this part, Baby K learns about trust."
Chapter 8: Ivories tinkled=Just another day in servitude as a maid, I helped prepare breakfast, served Mummy and Daddy at their table, cleared up, and started my cleaning chores.That morning, I had to clean and polish the drawing room. While I...
"A couple decide to wait before consummating their bond."
Elspeth saw Guy slow to a stop on the road beyond the front garden wall of her apartment block. She knew that the long wait to be with him was finally at an end.They had met quite by chance when...
"The love of my life"
As a poor Filipina working in Japan, I didn't have many allies I could count on. The Japanese are polite people but are suspicious and cautious around those from the outside world. Japan, was an isolated island nation for thousands...
"He was kind, but not to everyone, trustworthy, honest, and the best kind of friend you could ask for. Will our dynamic change after some distance?"
I stared down at my phone, my mind going a million miles a minute as I stood there unable to react. I wondered if he knew. How would he? If there’s no way he could know, would it be fate?...