"Looking out the window one evening, I noticed something peculiar"
The Queens Road Christmas party was a grand affair; or so it seemed from the vantage of my study. Imogen and Simon spared no expense and initiated their preparations well before the frenzied onset of Michaelmas. By the time the...
"'It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion' (Henry James)"
What evoked the actions that had so astonished him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably some off-handed comment spoken as they rekindled their acquaintance. He had tagged along with friends to lunch at the house where...
"A first date becomes deeply erotic (and life-changing) for two struggling young women"
The noise is a kind of sensual assault that leaves me feeling buzzed and giddy. The large space is jammed with people, hundreds at least, possibly more than a thousand. Most of them are young guys with pretty faces and...