"What lies in wait within a dark confine to spring to new life?"
Nature stirs as snows doeth melt,All kissed awake by suns' warmth -- felt,What swells unseen, in dark-held berth,To mimic well, this warming earth,A favored bud might yield to coax,This promised rise that we have spoke,What hints in seasons fresh anew,Might...
"Best friends become roommates, then lovers."
“Wow, we really lucked out with this place,” said Vivian Hannity. She was talking about the apartment they had just rented on Sedgwick Avenue.Her new roommate, Miranda Grossman – or just Mandy – replied, “I’ll say, I especially like this...
"A student is surprised when a classmate asks him for a date."
Most of us of a certain age remember the 1989 teen romantic comedy, Say Anything. It’s actually an adult fantasy about how they wished teen life had been for them. Yet it struck a nerve with me when I saw...
"A college student has a late-night encounter with a strange young woman."
I thought I lost my virginity to a girl I met at Finley Hall, but afterwards I was never truly sure. I suppose it was a matter of definitions. It wasn’t really about the event itself, but rather the woman...
"The car: a 1946 Packard Clipper."
My favorite uncle was my father’s younger brother, Henry D’Amato, or Uncle Hank as we called him. When I reached college age in the 1970s, he had a successful fruit wholesaling business in the Bronx Terminal Market. By then he...
"Carl had come through for her in a big way. It was time to thank him properly..."
Melanie Chambers sat there in her landlord's basement apartment, nursing the first cup of coffee she'd had in over three months. She had come down to his apartment to give him an answer to a very unusual and quite salacious...
"Maria plays erotic dice with her guests."
This story is based upon a photo series, “The Bet”, by Italian photographer, Andrea James Bramley, who started a photo series under this same name at https://bramleyappletheforbiddenfruit.blogspot.com. I write this with the permission of both he and the model featured...
"Maria's guests arrive. She begins serving them nude."
For the next several days, Pietro first tried having sex with me; I suspect so he could reestablish his rights to me before they were given to others. I wasn’t having it after he wagered my nude body with his...
Amber Sansone wasn't sure if she was bi-sexual or heterosexual. She and her friend Laura had a moment where they shared a kiss together. They both were inexperienced but after locking lips for a while both became experts together. They enjoyed french-kissing...
"City people didn't have drive-ins."
In May 1975 I gave my girlfriend Michelle Hanley a tour of my hometown of The Bronx. We were both sophomores at the City College of New York and we had a Wednesday for ourselves. We decided to take her car...
