Sasha walked naked towards the cabin. She was a thirty-seven-year-old ts girl from Thailand. She had always lived in Thailand, but worked as a marine biologist and meditation teacher. She was attractive in the eyes of all, she had short black hair, and delicate facial features. Her body was quite petite, and she had little in the way of curves, but she was beautifully female as she was.  Her two lovers were Alexander and...

James could not remember the last time he felt so simultaneously nervous and excited. Probably when he was a teenager he ruminated, an image of himself standing at a bus stop on his way to meet the girl of his dreams for the first time flooding his mind. He chuckled to himself remembering how he was going to spend the rest of his life with that girl, she was the one. She shagged his so-called mate about nine months later...

Half the school assumed that Sean and I would tumble into a relationship if given the right push. And push us they did, but nothing ever came of it. – Sean was my best friend. One of a long line of Male Best Friends that I did not get romantically involved with. I have had female friends, but I had a hard time getting past the cordial colleague state with any of my own sex. I have tried to psychoanalyze this tendency many...

Jack wakes up to see a pair of soft blue eyes watching him. She smiles upon seeing him wake and roll over to face the ceiling. The interior of the house annoyed Jack in many ways, but the slanted cedar slabs cut by two long skylights was not one of them. "Morning," says Marian beside him. "Overcast," Jack replies. "It was raining earlier," Marian says. "I enjoyed watching the water droplets fall down. They made little riv...

Jerry woke and saw that his right leg was in a cast along with his left arm. He was hooked to an IV and the standard monitors. His right hand rubbed his chin. Feels like three days of growth. I’m not bound, and it does look like a regular hospital. Jerry drifted back to sleep.   oOo   Hanna had been home for three days and told Julie everything she remembered about what had happened. They’d cried about being back together...

The coronavirus outbreak in 2019 was ultimately contained but had a devastating effect on the United States and world. Municipal, state, and federal governments approached the crisis in various ways, and my state instituted the ‘New York on PAUSE Plan’, which required residents to stay home to the extent possible, and to avoid all nonessential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason. But leeway was given for...

Andy left Candice while he asked the management about their facilities and how he could use them. For five minutes after he’d gone, she stood at the bar and watched the room. Client number two was still talking avidly to his companions. Was he telling them? Candice nodded to the barman to top up her wine with sparkling water and drifted over to a vacant table, hoping it was close enough to catch a few words. What she woul...

  Buying the bungalow proved easier than might be expected, mostly because it needed a lot of work. Before she died, it belonged to an old lady who’s family was in Australia. They had no interest in the property, so it was auctioned by an agent in its existing run-down state. Rhona had a careful look and came to the conclusion that the auction would not be well attended. “Think about who would it suit?” she said to Andy....

There was an awkward moment when Candice looked at Andy, trying unsuccessfully to read his expression. She thought about saying something, but Marsha pulled her away. “I’ll help you get ready,” she said. “What’s going on?” Candice said as soon as they were in the bedroom. “I don’t have a clue girl, but would Andy pull a stunt like that without a good reason?” “Yeah, but what reason?” “Either he knows something sensational...

Three became two, two became one. Her life was changing with no room for me in tow. She broke my heart and left me nowhere to go. Lost like a puppy who had run away from home. You tried to mend me piece by piece. But my wandering eye was a force to be beat.   A new prospect snuck in undetected one day. A few weeks later she planned to sweep me away. One month later the ticket was booked. A weekend with her was a thrill to...

"Almost a year." "In a few weeks."Who would have thought--""I did, Honey," Jacob interjected. "I hoped. These eleven months together have been wonderful."My brown eyes locked in on his. "Loving you is awesome." In the depth of our town's forest, I looked at the nearby banyan tree. "That's where we had our first kiss.""That's why I selected this spot for our picnic." On our patchwork quilt, Jacob unpacked the lunch he had...

Candice made breakfast, while Andy showered, and was watching the early news when a text arrived.‘Do you want to be here for this?’ The text said. Candice stared at it for a minute. Marsha must mean that she was going to do a pregnancy test. Trying to calculate dates in her head, Candice thought there was a good chance the test would be negative, but Marsha was a nurse and she’d done midwifery training, so maybe she knew...

Candice did not mention the Texan again throughout the meal. Instead, she played games with Andy as she invented one new persona after another. “You know,” Andy said, “I think I know who you are.” “A well-known fantasist and confidence trickster?” “No, I think you must be a scriptwriter, or a novelist, something like that, someone who lives off their imagination.” “Like I said, a fantasist—” “and confidence trickster," he...

Candy came home late in the afternoon and called up the stairs to Andy. “I’m making supper. Can you be ready in half an hour?” Andy opened the door, yelled “yes,” down the stairs, and carried on working. On his desk, his phone remained defiantly silent. Twice, he had checked to make sure he had messages set to ping when they arrived, but the phone never made a sound. When the half-hour was up, he picked up the phone, save...

After their discussion, they agreed that Candy would go shopping on her own and a trip with Andy would follow. That order of things was Andy’s idea, for which he cited two reasons. The first being that Candy had so enjoyed meeting the lactation nurse, her first chance to act on her own after weeks of depending on others, and the second being that Andy needed to get used to her being out on her own. He needed to re-learn e...