It had been a long week, but Louise was getting ready for a much-needed trip to the Canary Islands with her husband. Packing for this trip was easy, a bit of winter sun always brought out the best in Louise. However, before departure, she needed to get a...
My mind was in a whirl after Miss Susan left; what had I let myself in for? I realised that I really knew nothing about her and that she looked really young. I assured myself that she had to be at least eighteen to have been in the club, but should a woma...
Strange how pure chance can change a life. If I hadn't chosen to join John in Paris for Christmas, if I hadn't flown through Denver, if I hadn't gone to the bookstore to kill time, if I hadn't seen the book on display, if I hadn't bought a copy, if I hadn...
Just North of London’s Covent Garden in an area known as Seven Dials is a small recently refurbished hotel, it is a fraction of the size of the big chains but offers a very high standard of service at a reasonable rate. Above all else it is slightly off t...
Walking into The Dorchester Hotel is like stepping into a fantasy world. Italian marble floors and hand-tufted Kashan Persian rugs reminiscent of a king’s palace. Priceless art and sculptures give the feel of being in the Louvre. And the gold-gilded colum...
Viola picked up Sera and sat her on the table and leaned forward to kiss her. Sera’s fingers tangled themselves in Viola’s black hair, pulling her closer. Viola pulled at the strings of Sera’s shirt, undoing it a single movement. The kiss became more inte...
The first few days were kind of novel. Not surprisingly, after all, we were dealing with novel coronavirus. I slept in, ate leisurely and caught up on my box sets. All the things you dream of doing when work beckons every day. I lived alone, my requiremen...
All through February, Emma and Donald are in their own wonderful bubble. They become more and more in tune with each other, leaving the rest of the world behind. Valentine’s Day, they are in bed all day, leaving only to get drinks or food to enjoy toget...
When Emma wakes Friday morning, though she hates to acknowledge it, she still has a small bit of underlying anger about Donald secretly taping her in such intimate moments. But then part of her had been rather aroused watching them, and in time she knows...
It was March of 2005. Kelly and I were forty-five years old. Kelly and I had decided to go see The Blue Man Group in Chicago. The weather was surprisingly nice on that Saturday. We stayed in a beautiful suite at a hotel near the theater. And, loving Giord...
Emma smoothed the dress over her hips and felt a rush of excitement from doing it. Immediately she felt guilty that she had done something which she enjoyed without the Professor’s permission. She hadn’t meant to, so she hoped it was a misdemeanor, and...
I am a woman of forty-six and was married at twenty-one to a man of twenty-seven. We lived and loved for twenty-five years before he had a heart attack and died. He was a successful businessman and left me very well off. After he died I abstained from...
I arrived at work at my normal time, just before 8:00AM. Technically, I didn't have to be there until 8:30 but, as an intern, I wanted to make a good impression. My boss, Jill, usually showed up around 8:15 and I really liked her seeing that I was consist...
It’s been several weeks since Sam and I went shopping and we’re closer than ever. We had reorganised our room, our beds were now adjacent on the same wall and the rest of the room was laid out with a work area: desks, chairs, and laptops around the corner...
After growing up in a small town, sheltered by my family, I was excited to get away. When preparing for college, I traveled around Georgia and North Florida to visit a lot of schools. Some of the schools showed interest in me. Academically I was a good st...
