Later that night, Sarah and I had an excellent three-course meal at the hotel restaurant. It was silver service on Fridays and Saturdays. That was new to us, but something that we quickly got used to. Sarah was the perfect companion as we chatted away, al...
Miriam Cohen was gobsmacked: mother had arranged a valentine's date for her. Not with a random young man, of course; rather, mama confided, in hushed tones, that David’s mother had confided, in hushed tones, “Doctor potential.” He was intuitive, recognisi...
I lay in my bed about to fall asleep and, like always, my mind went a million miles a second. I was restless and needed to release some tension. I crossed my legs while lying in bed, knowing what this would cause. I started moving my legs to squeeze and h...
Jenny slipped off her bra and panties and reached for the black silk robe closest to her. Stacy stashed the clothes in the duffel bag for her roommate. “So let me get this straight,” she said. “This is how you’ve been paying your rent?” “Yep.” “How much a...
The whirring fan was a triumph of optimism over effectiveness, not a skerrick of breeze cut through the treacly mugginess shrouding my skin. That humidity, redolent of molasses, mango, and frangipani, continually asked: Always the outsider in this fugging...
Never look back; that's your mantra. It helped loosen the knots binding me to parental beliefs. But, now; fuck you, it's never, ‘just sex.’ So it’s a spiteful last longing look over my shoulder, before vanishing into the woods. Lot’s wife glanced back and...
The early morning sky was streaked with lines of smokey grey and light purplish blues, the sun only just starting to awaken. Traipsing through the garden, almost aimlessly, the ground slightly dewy and wet underfoot, virtue herself silently walked. Well,...
Visible steam rose from a porcelain cup of coffee as Chloe tried to sip at it, burning her tongue in the process. She got her coffee first, while her friend, Sylvia got an iced-mocha-chai-latte with almond milk. Chloe hated when people ordered that, it ma...
An act of sporting heroism made for the best day ever. An act of spineless weakness made for the worst day ever. For Jack, his dual-sport motorbike aggressively bouncing over the ruts of an abandoned forestry track deep in the Blue Mountains, the bitter a...
“Say it.” “Say what?” Fluttering her long lashes as she took a sip of coffee, she failed in her attempt to look innocent. “Say what you are dying to say … what you dragged me out to this coffee shop to say.” “Oh, well, if you are going to force it out of...
“Oh, Nicholas, you look exhausted this year.” “It’s a labour of love, my dear.” Mrs. Claus rubbed her husband’s knotted shoulders. “Shall we raise your North Pole?” she asked, leaning in to nibble on his earlobe. “You should pack, love. The Arctic and Ant...
Tap. Tap Tap. I heard it but was trapped in that foggy, disorienting state between sleep and consciousness. A voice inside my head kept urging me to wake up even though my eyelids weighed heavily, fighting me. Finally, they fluttered open, and I strained...
I wished that Simon would see me as more than just the boss's daughter. He'd come to work for my dad when I was sixteen, and for the last two years, I'd lusted for him from afar. We'd spent the last eight months on the road hosting fairs across the State...
2nd October 2018 My mind was a whirr. Had it really only been a day since my life had changed so dramatically? Since I’d been sitting minding my own business in a chatroom, trying to kill time on a boring, rainy Sunday afternoon? When she had butted...
“Oh my god, would you hurry the fuck up!” Jan moaned out loudly. Her lover had one hand with its fingers pinching and toying her nipples while the other was popping open the buttons on her skirt. The fingers toying with her nipples pinched harder as if to...
