Zarafa Rio sprawled on her belly on a futon, her Titian red hair spilling off the top of the mattress onto a woven grass tatami mat. Sunset bathed the room in a carmine glow that rouged her skin like petals of a dusky rose. A few thousand yards from her one-room bamboo-and-thatch hut, the surf crashed against white sand that powdered the islet of Aitanu like sugar on a donut. Outside the glassless window, orange-throated...

He stepped up close behind her in the aisle to look over her shoulder at a book she had picked off the shelf. With a mere inch between her back and his chest, their clothes lightly brushed. He felt the magnetic tug between them, and he sensed, hoped, that she felt it as well. When she leaned back, hardly moving an inch, and her shoulder blades pressed so slightly but firmly against his chest, she confirmed his suspicion....

Dream Girl ©️ 2023 Charlotte Owen In the dream, Zander woke up to sex. Lorna smiled, as she could feel his orgasm and knew that she was the source of his pleasure. But he would soon awaken in real life, and so it was time for her to leave the dreamroom. Lorna could make a man happy, send him to paradise and back, but he would never see the real her. Lorna, you see, was a Dream Girl. A Dream Girl could guide a man through...

Love... Love is a game that both can play and win. But we always have to remember that games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy them. There's a saying, 'Not knowing what you want is one thing but not knowing what you want and getting a person's feelings involved is another thing..... No need to play games.' But sometimes, the game of love can bring changes that make you feel complete. Love is but the dis...

“Mike died,” his wife, Shelly Carter, informed me over the phone. “Oh no! Shelly! I’m so sorry, hon.” It wasn’t a surprise, his cancer had become very aggressive in the last year. Still, it was difficult news for my friend. Shelly and I were work friends going back almost thirty years. She was "Auntie Shell" to my kids. She knew things about me no one else in the world ever did. Ten years my senior, I still had the hots f...

Josie leaned back, distancing herself from her computer screen. Surely, that was enough editing for one day. Her eyes felt squint, the back of her head throbbed in the way only an impending headache could. Josie sighed and closed the browser window. She took her coffee out onto the small, metal balcony and watched Melbourne go by, beneath her. Out in the wind she felt the beginnings of her headache receding and the wind w...

They decided to leave Jasper and head back to Banff. A leisurely drive back to the more cosmopolitan town would be good for both of them. He had called ahead to the largest hotel in the town. It was also the oldest. For a price, they would take care of every detail. He was counting on that. He wanted perfection, and could pay the price for it. As they approached the town, a slow sweet smile crept onto her face. She felt a...

The shower took longer than anticipated, on her part, for sure, because he joined her.  Hands touching.  Water cascading.  Mouths kissing.  Dinner was long forgotten, as they made love in the shower, and drying each other off, he picked her up, and carried her to the bed, and made love to her all over again.  It was dark, and neither had an inkling to get dressed and go out for dinner.  Dressed in their robes, they padded...

They woke, it was nearly noon, and both had slept so soundly after their night of passion, that neither one of them really cared, that half the day was gone.  The past week, they were always up, early, and met either before sunrise, to take pictures of the new day dawning, or they met for breakfast, usually no later than nine in the morning.  She had slept well, better than she had in years.  She woke, feeling truly refre...

He was ready, more than ready.  He had been alone, too long, and he loved this beautiful woman, with all his heart.  God, how was he ever going to last, he was sure that their first attempt at lovemaking would be very short lived.  He wanted to bury himself into her, but he also needed to know that she was going to be satisfied.  So for now, he told himself he must be patient.  He told himself, that she had only ever had...

He heard her moan, and it sent the blood rushing to other parts of his body, than his head.  The effect she had on him was dizzying, in more ways than one.  Reluctantly, he ended the kiss, and kissed her on the forehead.  "Let's go find someplace to have a nice quiet dinner, and get some coffee and breakfast fixin's for the morning.  The cabin has quite a nice little kitchen.""We should ask the desk clerk in the office wh...

the SUV was unloaded.  He reached out and took her hand in his, and she glanced at their hands, fingers laced, and then smiled shyly at him.  "I like you," he said to her, "a lot.""I know, I have feelings for you too," she admitted.  "I haven't felt like this, in a long time.""Hmm, nor have I," he admitted to her.  "I didn't think I'd ever find someone like you.  I'd given up on love.""What are you saying?", she asked him...