Erotic smells Stories

I met Jose when we were consultants for a tech company. I was thirty and he was twenty-two and just out of college. Our long days of training workers ended with dinner and a trip back to the apartment complex where we were staying. It’s lonely on the road. So we enjoyed each other’s company during our off hours. Who needed two separate apartments? Not us. So Jose often visited me for a scoop of ice cream, a movie on TV —...

… he says. It’s been a strange week. October is always a bit weird – neither summer nor winter, it’s that liminal month between the joys of sunshine and the dense, dark rituals of year’s end. This one is relatively mild, but at the office on Thursday, it rained so hard water squirted through a closed sash window. I picked up the phone, pretended to dial, and then said, “God? It’s Kelly. Yes, that one.” I winked at everyon...

Alan slammed the front door shut and slid down to his butt. He could hear the bathtub running upstairs and thought about going up to join his daughter in the bathroom. But it sounded like she wanted the night to be over, the last thing she said being 'Night daddy', so he decided against it. He retreated to his bedroom and collapsed onto his bed. As he lay on his pillow something tickled his nose. He pulled his head up and...