I leaned back into the couch. Sydney sat next to me, her head resting on my shoulder. Two steaming mugs of hot chocolate sat on the coffee table before us. Akasha sat on the loveseat a couple of feet away. She watched us as she sipped from her steaming mug of coffee. She took another sip, set her mug on the coffee table, and leaned forward, her eyes boring into Sydney. “You said you would explain your actions this evening...

I took a quick shower and washed every sign of Linda from my body. I dressed in fresh clothes and jumped in the car. It was a little past 11:15 when I reached the checkout in Kings of Artane, a litre of milk in one hand and a box of Leonidas Chocolates in the other. I got a pack of cigarettes and handed over my card to the shop assistant behind the counter. I arrived at Anita's house five minutes later and knocked softly...

Bruce was a long-term friend of mine. He is tall and strong and had a shaved head. His wife, Dana, was a gorgeous brunette. She was about ten years younger than Bruce at twenty-four. They had no children, as Bruce was sterile. They seemed to have a good sex life as my wife and I could often hear them fucking next door. Dana was a screamer, and she sounded like she was cumming multiple times in each session. My name is Mac...

The doctor's registrar shook my hand and left me alone in my hospital bed. I threw my head back on the pillow, relieved. The door opened slowly and Críona stuck her head in. “Good news, love?” she asked. “Yes, finally!” I said. “Well?” she said. “Do I have to pull it out of you?” “That sounds interesting, love,” I said. “I’m just putting this on record here, I’ll allow it as long as only one of us is inserting something i...

As I approached Eva’s hall door, I walked with trepidation in every step. I had thought long and hard since the chat with my mother and it was all rolling around in my head as I took the brass knocker in my hand and rattled it gently against the frame. I needed a sense of where she was, emotionally. But that all disappeared in a cloud of love as she opened the door and smiled at me. She looked like an angel. She smiled an...

It had built up between them, the feverish tension, inexorably, achingly, deliciously, Building, and building. When they came closer in the small kitchen, preparing the ingredients, they both felt the pull, unmistakably magnetic, invisibly tugging. He held off to tease her, she willed herself to wait, but they both knew it was there, and growing stronger. The dinner itself, from the chopping and slicing, colors and textur...

I was invigorated as I woke on Friday morning after, what I felt was, a successful session on the training pitch. It was a great feeling to start the day. It was tempered, slightly, by the looming horizon of a first date with a beautiful woman and the fear that I might make myself look like a complete fucking idiot. So it was, in this twilight humour, that I set off for work, my stomach in a confused knot of triumph, on t...

It would be Iris’ birthday in two weeks. Always a blessed occasion and cause for celebration, Ivan wanted to do something a little more for her this year. She was the love of his life and he now had, from years of labor, hard work and some good decisions, the resources to give his wife he thought she might deem a wonderful birthday evening. He told her to reserve the weekend, and that he had special plans. The weekend in...