"A fleeting touch, shared in silence..."
What kindness remainstends to be shunnedby upturned coat collarsand downcast eyes.But I see you,a long-legged dreamlounging on that bench.Sitting by your side,I rest my hand between uswhile a candy heartlingers on my tongue.Its message dissolves unread.No matter what it said—words...
"Shy guy escapes the friendzone in time for the holidays"
As I held back my unrequited love’s hair while she relieved her troubled stomach all over the icy pavement, I reflected that this wasn’t exactly how I’d hoped to spend my first Christmas in London.The previous year, after months of...
"A professor and guest arrive at the college to share discoveries"
The road was bumpy, the carriage wheels jolted and hopped over stones and ruts as it made its way through the darkening wood. The professor and his mistress sat comfortably in the plush interior, warm with the glow of a...
"Keeping warm on a winter night."
Come to me!on a cold dark nightwith a full moon howlingin a clear Alaskan sky.Walk with me,on the coastal trailwhere the footprints are fewin the woods by the shore.Talk with me,tell me secretsthat only lovers can knowin soft whispers to...
This brings me back,takes me on a journey in the deep recesses of my mindto a time I remember well.And although it tastes the same(like winter)like hot chocolate on a crisp, dark night,feels like the sharp wind whipping at my...
"A feminine snowflake transmogrifies into an algid lapis lazuli"
Pearls of a winter’s day plash gently on open hands,Each snowflake a gem of melting opulence,Garnishing season’s moods with opalescent sheets.Purity celebrated in perpetual variety,With polished faces of ivory radiance;Their tender and alluring eyes abounding everywhere. Shades of winter relax not...
"In recognition of the Autumn Equinox (or Spring to my friends south of the Equator)."
As the sun gets lowerThe nights grow longer than everThe warmth and joy of SummerFeels like it’s gone and returning never Winter moves in with fingers of iceBringing with it cold and fearTearing away the last vestige of lightSpending its time...
"Can love conquer in a war torn city?"
The Bomb Shelter Virgin Christmas Eve 1941, Kyiv (Kiev) Russia.Natalya was busying herself peeling vegetables for Christmas day by candlelight. She had not long returned from Christmas Eve mass at the church, the deep cold still in her bones.Dressed in her...
"holiday wishes and desires are never as simple as they first appear"
The frigid, glacial cold slithers in through every pore in her body as she steps naked from the Jacuzzi. Then it slaps her full in the face, a stinging blow that reminds her of a nasty little French godmother that...
"Their spirited foreplay quickly approached the point of no return"
“Mmm, you smell gorgeous.”Beth felt a shiver run down her spine as her husband cooed in her ear. The smooth, rich timbre of his voice always made her warm and fuzzy, but all the more so when it happened to...
