If the bar had been just a little more crowded, I wouldn’t have even noticed him. He walked in from the snow, laughing and stomping his boots on the entry rug. He was tall and thin with a thick black beard. He walked toward the hostess, and they smiled, greeting each other with a bear hug. As the pair stood around chatting, the man unbuttoned his coat and casually glanced around the bar. Our eyes locked for a fraction of...

No one intends to end up in a sexless marriage. It happened so slowly with innumerable, seemingly insignificant choices that it was hard to imagine that now years had passed since they had been intimate. This was what Anne and Michael were each thinking as they strolled arm in arm down the bustling city streets of London. How had it happened that it had been so long since they had sex that neither could recall the last ti...

We masqueraded impatiently through the day, watching angels and devils roam dusty streets. We waited for nightfall and the town celebration that would hide our encounter. We eagerly slipped away from the bonfire into the fields, waiting for harvest. A nervous kiss, a hand under my dress and slip. Time used efficiently, my undergarments moved aside, fingers entered me open, wanting and wet, his mouth on my slit. His tongue...