She never saw his face… …not directly, anyway. She wasn't even sure where he boarded the train. She suspected it was at Central, where the bulk of the passengers had hopped on, where the space she inhabited suddenly became cramped, both arms raised and ho...
Early retirement hadn't turned out to be the idyll either of them expected. Buddy had sold his business back in February and Sheila had had enough. For six months she had put up with his lazy-assed, fucked-up, king-of-the-hill attitude. It wasn’t just tha...
Helluva dream. I was working on a project to rehab old houses for the needy. Over the past few weeks, we gutted the inside, fixed some plumbing and electrical problems, and replaced fixtures. Now, this weekend, I’d been asked to take charge of tearing dow...
It was Saturday night and I was at a bit of a loose end. My wife, Christine, was away looking after her elderly mother so I had been guarding the fort until she returned. I didn’t fancy another night in front of the telly so I decided to have a pie and a...
"Hey, can you come over here tonight? I'll have some cold beers ready." Upon returning to my dorm room after a long run, I find this message from my friend Keith. With nothing better to do, it seems like a good plan for the evening. My last real contact w...
My name is Leo. I guess you could say I am three-quarters gay, but I mostly think of myself as straight. I have a smart, beautiful girlfriend, although, now that I think about it, she was always kind of butch-looking. Marisa was an engineering student, ra...
I was having a hard time with the scene in that basement. Here was this nice high school girl in her strange state of undress, and I knew she was going to talk about some provocative topics. I had a sudden attack of prudishness. She seemed to understand w...
I finally realized last weekend that my best friend Rick had been flirting with me for some time. Up until then, I had dismissed his jokes and antics as juvenile locker-room behavior. Even though he repeatedly flashed his (kinda big-looking) cock a lot mo...
I was at home, upstairs in the bathroom where the light is best at mid-morning. My hands shook slightly as I put on makeup, desperate not to smudge it or get one eye different to the other. As I worked, I remembered online tutorials and the advice of girl...
We don't usually go out, but we decided that since we’d had a rare few days together, and were in a city that felt anonymous enough to go unnoticed, that we should leave the bliss-bubble of our hotel room and go out for dinner. It wasn’t easy to convince...
Blaise and I spent all that Saturday together, first cleaning his house, then just hanging out. I had cleaned the Lodge pretty thoroughly the day before for my private show with Ezekiel that was more than just a show. So, we didn’t need to go out there....
We ended up spending the night at the twins’ place. Their bed wasn’t meant for four people—at least not for actual sleeping—but we made it work. We basically got really friendly: whenever one of us moved, the rest of us would feel it. When I woke up the n...
The following day was when the papers were due. I was already sitting there when Nora came bopping in. Later that year, I would see Young Frankenstein, and how she had moved reminded me of Madeline Kahn’s entrance into a bedroom. That was the scene late i...
I thought I lost my virginity to a girl I met at Finley Hall, but afterwards I was never truly sure. I suppose it was a matter of definitions. It wasn’t really about the event itself, but rather the woman I was with. Finley Hall was the Student Center at...
Three young people were working as summer interns at Jamison’s Magazine in New York; it was in an old, rambling building on lower Fifth Avenue. They were all nineteen-year-old students who had finished their freshman year at City College: Darina Kuznetsov...
