"Written for a woman I used to call Kiss..."
We are lying together in a bedIn a mountain cabin.I can hear the sharp snapping soundsof split pine burning in the fireplace.Embers appear like orange fireflies,Dancing drunkenly.I feel your hand exploring my body,Trying to make all of my body feel...
"A 19-year-old SoCal girl discovers her sexuality with a glamorous young Thai prostitute."
Ally sat at the end of a cheap hostel table listening to young Westerners discussing the nuances of social circles back home. She focused more on the slowly advancing time of her iPhone than the chattering of her friends, as...
"A young Widows Lessons in Life and Love in rural 1930's America"
The watching crows sat cackling in the skeletal trees as a cold October wind blew through the graveyard as Mr. Brannigan was put into the ground and laid to rest.We stood a ways back from the black-veiled widow as she...
"To consummate their mysterious meeting there seems but one thing to do."
I try not to shake as his hands slip over my shoulders, his body close to mine while he watches me, his mask now gone, abandoned somewhere on our journey between the ballroom and here. A dark room that smells...
"Ode to my Scottish love"
Ower the haugh and yont a glen there is a bonny dunWhere the corbie flies agin the sky, afore the setting sun, Wi talloun and cracklings we sit doon and have a little drinkAnd efter a wee heavy or two, we...
"Final part in the Blind Girl Rain/Snow series"
Everything comes to an end sometime.And when you reach that end it's only natural to look back on what was and had been when everything was new and exciting. Looking back at those moments that changed the course of who...
"Mr. B opens up Kimmi in the great outdoors ..."
Kimmi hopped out of his SUV in cutoff denim shorts and a white t-shirt. Mr. B had rolled down the windows for the trip so they could smell the fresh air, but he also liked Kimmi with a windblown, wild...
"Follow up to The Blind Girl in the Rain (read first)"
I was sat behind my desk when the call came."What?" I shouted down the phone, "You mean now?" I jumped up with a mixture of surprise, delight, fear, and anticipation. At that exact moment, Janet walked through the door with...
"A Love story about a boy and the girl from his Dreams."
The Northern night sky slowly rotated above us inside the great astronomical dome of the Magellan Planetarium as the audience sat listening to the astronomer in residence as he talked about all things universal and our place in it.The auditorium was...
"The Slow Burn Ignites"
I eventually press myself away slightly, the heavy thumping of my heart becoming overwhelming and the tingling of my lips disconcerting. His fervour is something I've never experienced before and I think I like it. He lets me gently slip...