Paris, 1962 Inside Bohemia After Dark, patrons squinted through an ashen haze at the nightclub's featured combo. Stained indigo under mood lighting, a quintet of animated ebony carvings whisper-shouted wordless, haunting languages. Cigarette embers winked; wine glasses clinked; heads nodded with appreciation as notes jitterbugged in a tempo hurricane. The tenor man dismounted from the rollercoaster rush of a melody he'd r...

Once the limo dropped him off, all Andrew Lyne Barrett could think about was a decent coffee and a hot shower. And bed. Solo, not shared. The marathon 69 contest with a nubile starlet du jour — his reward for enduring eleven weeks of flubbed steps, sour notes and thespian tantrums in LaLa Land — nearly caused him to miss his flight but was worth the last-minute sprint through the terminal. Things went downhill from there....

Near closing time on a rare, rainless Cornish evening, I wander toward the shop where you work, unable to explain how I got here other than transport by sheer longing. The same compulsion told me where to find you in this village across the sea. A display window's counterfeit moonbeams stripe the dark sidewalk in front of my destination. Tongue-tied with grief and hope, I push the door open and step under clean fluorescen...

Ray: After the memorable supper during which mom and dad skillfully manipulated Kim's mom and dad to agree to permit Kim and I to go steady, things changed radically. After that, Sheila, Kim's mother, and my mum became quasi-inseparable. They frequently could be found working on their tans poolside. In addition, Kim's dad was now a member of the country club due to my father's good graces becoming the fourth regular playe...

Dawn If absence makes a dick grow impatient, the proof blasts through my bedroom window from the dick's muffler-challenged Camaro, twenty minutes early and fumigating the yard with thunderheads of exhaust. Every bump in the driveway extorts a creaky toll from the rustbucket suspension as gears grind to a prowl, then clunk into 'park' by the back door. My topless companion sports dreamily slitted eyes and a wrist tent in h...

Lita's cinnamon-heart vortex pulls taffy from the kingpin's grizzled candyfloss. Four decades of bubblegum diva ambition knelt in vain, warned industry gossip. Stage-tight chaps swagger into the suite, red-glaring rockets launched. From behind, each ravishes the worshiping fellatrix to a simmer, unsheathes, offers the mogul a taste. Gateway licks breed hardcore gluttony. Throat serially plugged, cravings uncloseted, the s...

Teri "Going over Dawn's today?" Aunt Denise asks without looking up from the newest Uncle Henry's classifieds. The overhead kitchen bulb shimmers in her teacup and burnishes her auburn topknot. Framed in the window is one of those typical maritime days when cotton bales of fog ghost the peninsula, monopolizing the air with their wetsuit chill.  "No, she's got a dentist appointment in Brunswick." And yesterday's sun packed...

*Teri* By noon, the sky is a clean slate in a color movie stars, myopic or not, would want to tint their contacts. Beyond the shore break's pearly grin, Dawn and I are frolicking like seals between gentle sapphire swells and a young summer sun that blazes without a care in the world.I'm squinting against the sequinned glare when a tug at my hip whirls me around. Mischief glitters with ebony brilliance from my new friend's...

Ray *** I returned home with so many mixed emotions. Within the space of a few days, I had gone on my first date, fallen in love and lost my virginity. Not only had I lost my virginity, but I had also deflowered a virgin. All this was a hell of a lot for the young high school senior to digest. Also, I had asked Kim the object of my affections and lust to go steady. However, her parents had put their foot down and said no....

It’s hard to foresee life’s unexpected twists and turns. Who would have known what a tortuous path we would follow to where we are today and how we got here. I guess I should start at the beginning.   oOo   I was born in Egypt. My father was of Russian and Armenian origins, while my mother was a mix of Lebanese and Italian blood. Both had been born in Egypt. After the Egyptian Revolution, my father decided to have the fam...

Keys click. Deserted welcome.  Scalding tears and suds purge her dutiful whereabouts. Beloved mom. Finite, fading.  Just like his understanding? Last week's soiree haunts the steam-curled solitude: carefree flirtations, a predator's perfume...amuse-bouches for a life-starved husband. Her eyes burn with soap and premonitions of rented release. Sylphlike fingers surround stiffened neglect, guide its escape from guilt. Engul...

His scarlet throb traces my lips, slickens them in a honeyed froth. Though blinded by silk noir haze, I divine its hue from its hardness.  It probes, a plum brimming with the taste of his control, the first breach of unclothed submission. I open for the deepest kiss I can bestow, all its flickering wiles unleashed to swipe desire's tears until his swollen rage strains as one with my bindings.  Heat withdraws. I breathe fr...

Through my mind race the images of us standing chest-deep in the sea and me asking Jan to marry me. I can’t help but smile at the hilarity of the situation. Jan, standing naked in front of me and of the shocked expression on her face as I make my proposal. I realize that we are not in an ideal location, so I lift Jan into my arms and trudge up the beach. Her silence at first fuels my fears of rejection. I can feel her sob...

I am in a state of turmoil as I realize that what is happening to me should not take place. I set out on this extended vacation with the intent of sharing my thoughts and impressions with a woman who is simpatico to me and with the resolution not to get into a physical relationship with her. Jan answered my advertisement in a local Boston magazine and me, poor fool, was beguiled by her candor and her sunny disposition.  I...

Mature Gentleman seeks travel companion. Requires younger cultured woman as a travel companion for a trip to Europe and beyond. NSA. Applicants will be judged on personality and culture. All expenses paid and an end of trip bonus of $10,000 per month will be offered. Apply by Email to WethersfieldR@ Wethersfieldassocs.com giving a brief apercu of yourself. Only candidates judged suitable will be contacted. I insert the ad...