It Was Palpable

"I wasn't the only one who felt the tension in my spanish class."

  It was my freshman year of college and I was in a lower level Spanish class than I was supposed to be in. Little did I know how much I actually needed to be there. I walked into the...

a club quickie

"giving myself to a stranger"

Our eyes met over his girlfriend’s head and I gave him a look that said he could have me as soon he could slip away from her. We’d been flirting with our eyes all night, slowly looking each other up...

The Receptionist

"A receptionist meets an interviewee."

His hands were in his lap, he was so nervous. This interview could make or break him and he knew he couldn’t mess up. He went over what he was going to say in his head; “I’m enthusiastic, punctual, a...

Stockholm Story

"I was 20, he was 35, we met on the internet. Things could only go wrong. Preface for a longer story."

Arlanda Airport, Stockholm. You must walk for miles to reach any destination. It gets especially inconvenient when you finally find your bag among hundreds of similar ones. I've heard airports in London or NYC were even worse, but they are...