"Two people, seeking solace in one another...?"
I can’t help feeling increasingly aroused as I watch from the sidelines, as my father - the best man - dances with one of the bridesmaids, who he’s met for the first time just this weekend.She’s in her late twenties...
"A man's last story tells his children, and the world, why he wants to be buried in a local cemetery."
I don’t know why, but I have always been fascinated with cemeteries. As I travel around the country I often walk through graveyards– especially country graveyards– and visit the graves. Back home, I know most of the departed by name.Perhaps...
"Letting go of the past isn't as easy as it may seem..."
It is a spring evening in 2000. I am twenty-two years old.We sit across from one another in a restaurant booth. Meg’s black hair comes just past her chin. It’s the shortest it’s been since high school. She’s wearing a white...
"What if you could plan the perfect first time?"
(Eloise) Sometimes he looked at her in a certain way and it no longer seemed possible to speak. There were words right in her throat at the moment, climbing up her tongue and then slipping back down again and again like...
"What if you could plan the perfect first time?"
After the reading and dinner with an old college friend, she retired, as had become the custom, to the hotel bar. Here her company was a boyish bartender who seemed to be desperately trying to think up something witty every...
"Adventures in polyamory and bisexuality."
It was strange having my wife spend time with another man. All the feelings of jealously had become replaced, however, with a feeling of excitement, wonder and love. I wouldn't like to say that I and my wife are monogamous or...
"The love of a dying man brings him into a future he did not expect."
Sex in space is amazing. The main event requires some forethought to avoid chasing each other around the room. But there are things you can do that just won’t work on the ground.All the plans and preparations led to this...
"A strip bar can be an interesting place to hang out."
It had been a rough week, so Craig knocked off early Friday afternoon. Actually, the whole engineering group knocked off early - there was a going-away happy hour for Patsy, the senior team leader. Patsy was a compact but plush...
"A relaxing day at the lake leads to a steamy night at home"
The day on the boat had been perfect. The weather was pretty much exactly what you’d ask for if you were gonna order it from a menu: mostly sunny, no more than eighty degrees, and just enough of a breeze to...
"Blake is saved by his lady love who happens to be a mermaid."
Although all his friends laughed at him Blake knew that mermaids are real. It was a strange thing for a cowboy to talk about, since he lived and worked, well, inland, away from the ocean. However, after every cattle drive...