Taboo intimacy Stories

Her mother named her Alexis. I’ve called her Lexi since she was a baby and she is my sister’s only child. She just finished her freshman year at Columbia University. To save money, she lived at home and commuted by train to school daily. The college experience hasn’t been ideal for her. No dorm life, no sorority sisters, no sports, and most of all, no dating. After she spent spring break at my house I knew she had a great...

The door to the studio closed behind them, leaving the echo of the last take. The car, wrapped in thick silence, rolled through deserted streets. The intensity of the set, that energy which had seemed endless, had now dissipated, leaving them both in a kind of reflective stillness. The sparkle in their eyes had lost its fervor, a sign that the artificial euphoria that had accompanied them was gone. Upon arriving home, the...