After the movie, the clutch of girlfriends decided to get a
late-night snack at a local diner. After the main course, they
sat chatting over coffee and desert.“Guess who I saw today, Surrey?” Janice asked, looking like a
tease. Janice was Surrain’s closest friend. They had been
roomates when they were undergrads. Janice was from New York,
tall, thin, …
I knew that there was something on Shayla’s mind when we went out to
dinner that weekend. Two glasses of wine later, she began to tell me
what she had been thinking about. I knew that she had been backing
off from her dominance in our relationship, and she admitted it when I
pressed her to talk.“I know it’s …
Miranda was 18 and had just left high school, she was going on her first job
interview and although she was happy for the chance to get a job before
Christmas, she was a little apprehensive about the establishment she would
be working for.Miranda’s interview was at an adult bookstore; actually they sold quite a
range of adult sex …
She was sitting in the sand, looking out toward the end of the jetty. The
waves were huge, frothing up as they swept down the breakwater. The beach was
crowded with people, busy walking and running up and down the beach and it was
only five-thirty. She had just finished her three laps of the beach and was
perspiring freely. …
I woke up at five-twenty on a Tuesday morning and found
myself seated next to Vivian on the first bus into the city. In my
morning stupor, I managed to deduce that she must have been able to
coax me out of my well-deserved post-finals slumber enough to get
me out of bed and dressed. Actually, I noticed, I was …
Laurel jumped nervously as the big lights came on and Dean’s pants crumpled to the floor. Dean tore off his tee shirt and bent to remove his shoes and socks. Laurel’s breath caught in her throat as she saw the man’s huge arms and chest, and he wished that they were alone – and in love – in this lousy …
“Wanna hear something really funny?” I asked Mike, looking at him
over my fourth rum and coke. “What’s that?” he smiled at me, shuffling a deck of cards just to
keep his hands busy while we talked. He’d been teaching me how to play
cribbage and I’d been losing. “I never knew Evelyn’s last name,” I said. “Isn’t that weird?”…
Sipping her vanilla milkshake, she sat at the bright white
formica table in Baskin-Robbins in her cheerful pink sweater,
waiting for the pedophile. The song on the radio reminded her of
a tune she had heard once in her father’s antique collection of
phonograph records. As she listened, the melody reminded her of
the ancient playback device, the slow rotation, …
The marionette set-up with Ginger was hot.Six spring-retractable lines came down from the ceiling and attached
to her wrists, ankles, a collar and pelvic harness. Ginger moved
around the bed a bit stiffly to pretend she was being controlled by
the strings. I piled some pillows up at the head of the bed and leaned
back, naked, into them. …
“She does love you. Perhaps too much.”Simon’s voice still carried the same self-confidence that Steven
remembered from the only other time he had heard it. His thumb hovered
over the “End” button, an instant away from silencing him. Instead, he
pulled the car to the side of the road, unable to look away from
Elyse’s name staring back at …