"Dan and Roxanna reveal their sexual likes and dislikes tro each other by phone"
"You once told me all about going down on your girlfriend when you were in college," Roxanna commented at one point in one of their many long, all-night phone conversations. "But has a woman ever gone down on you, Dan?"...
"Roxanna tells Dan about her first lustless first husband"
"Okay," Roxanna began telling Dan the story of her first husband. "I had long since gotten out of being a maid at a motel. I had taken a crash course and become a dental hygienist. When that wasn’t particularly satisfying...
"A teen abused at home finds love with an older man."
Alex Moves In Later that afternoon, after Alex and I had made tension, tear, and yelling filled phone calls to her father, Alex and I gathered her personal belongings from her parents’ home. I helped her with the larger things, but Alex...
"Dedicated to my great love NickC"
"When you find me, You hold my hand. Sometimes I see a crow; He squawks and my ears burn. Why does love find all of us? No it does not. It is a thing innocuous, Holding and holding. But it...
"Roxanna and Dan get to know each other by phone, all night every night"
Roxanna could scarcely believe it when she received a letter in the mail on that balmy May evening. It was from the dating service. No man had asked her out on a date since she split up with Jack nearly...
"What Happens When You Can't Have The One Person You Want Most?"
I run my fingers through my long brown hair as I stand in the middle of my motel room, my eyes wandering slowly over my surroundings, as my brain tries to register whether this room was worth the price or...
"A teen abused at home finds tenderness with an older man."
From the time Alex walked out of the warehouse security office where I work, she was all I could think of. What a night it turned out to be, for both of us. I couldn't help but think to my...
"What happens when you can't have the one person you want most?"
After an hour and a half of driving, the tour bus finally pulls into a parking lot of a simple motel. The walls are yellowing, indicating age and the doors to the rooms have rustic looking numbers nailed harshly to...
"In Part 1, lonely Dan didn't know that lonely Roxanna had found him; now Dan finds Roxanna"
For about the thousandth time, Dan pulled one of those red three-ring binders down off the shelf at the dating service he had joined. These metal-and-wood bookshelves lined the exterior of the room, from floor to ceiling. Red binders full...
"A teen abused at home finds love and tenderness with an older man."
I had returned home about noon Saturday to find the beautiful, 18-year-old, Alex sitting on my living room couch, sobbing. Her cell phone lay in pieces on the floor. To my surprise, after I held her a few moments, she...