Everyone screamed. Some screamed louder or longer than others, but we all cried out. Eventually, only a few sounds remained: Heather’s keening wail in the kitchen, Mari’s sobs, Tyler’s stream of profanities, and Lakshmi’s renewed, desolate moans. The heartbeat pounding in my ears threatened to drown them all out. Kyle and Blake had bolted from the room to check on their significant others, knocking over a couple of smalle...

On Monday, with his sister Sharon at work, thirty-nine-year-old Ian Dempsey thought back over the events of the last week, and ahead to what might be. A week ago, the unemployed Ian lived with his wife Suzanne, but he then got caught when Suzanne came home unexpectedly and found Ian fucking the lady that Suzanne employed to clean her house, Mrs Helen Elwood. Helen was sacked from her employment, and Ian was thrown out of...

Pictures are meant to replace a thousand words; even that is not enough to explain the road I took after capturing a single photo. Lost in a pile of limbs, sweaty by the consumption of passion, and feeling more alive than in the heat of the day, I look at my camera resting on the dresser, containing images that are worth more than words. --- Lake Louise is sublime, the snowy peaks in the background, the emerald-colored wa...

Colin Middleditch, aged sixty, had not seen his twenty-five-year-old lover Patrice Simmonds since she left his hotel room on Wednesday morning although they had exchanged several hot texts and had had a couple of phone conversations. As with most affairs, the more that they saw of each other the more they wanted time together but also as with most affairs, secrecy was important for at least one of the participants. It was...

I found the battered box in great-gran's attic. In a niche guarded by spiders. Inside was a silvered photograph, dated 1931. For all the world a dapper gentleman of means, there's no mistaking the she beneath the drag. The ribbon'd yellowed pages are my revelation of another life lived, then buried away. ...eighteen today! Berlin! Feel myself, alive! ...took me out dancing. I believe I love her. ...and used our "little ma...

Ray Fletcher was aged fifty-eight and was in a totally sexless marriage to Sally. They lived together and ate together but now slept in separate rooms. Ray had never been physically unfaithful to Sally, nor she to him, but Ray had gotten deeper and deeper into online relationships with various females and now, as he was in a room on his own, often masturbated late at night whilst in contact with one of them via his laptop...

Anthony Lorimer was aged in his early thirties. Over the last year or so, he had progressed from occasionally putting on his now estranged wife's underwear when she was not at home, to the stage that he was now at of going out fully dressed and made up as a woman. When dressed Anthony became Toni and, in part due to his build and bone structure, he became a very attractive female.In the early days, he would wank whilst we...

You are sleeping alone again, tossing and turning with broken dreams, unable to rest easy. Waking with a start, you feel something cold touching your face. You start to lift, but before you can, a cloth hood is pulled over your head and cinched closed at your throat. Shocked, confused, terrified, you fight to scream, but a hand cuffs you sharply and you feel the sting on your cheek. A hard voice hisses in your ear. "Silen...

Dan was becoming frustrated because he had been searching the house for the last thirty minutes looking for batteries. They always kept spare batteries. After all, they had two children who seemed to constantly need to replace used batteries. Dan bought them in ‘bonus sized’ boxes at the discount store. “Damn it, Kathy,” he said to the air. “Where have you hidden them?” After working his way back to the master bedroom, Da...