Sean Morris loaded the last cake in his SUV. He had it fitted with special racks so he could deliver Harper’s cakes to four coffee shops on his way to work. He closed the hatch and looked at his scarred face reflected in the window. It had been six months...
I sat in my car waiting for Cara. It was New Year’s Eve 1998. I was parked in front of a strip mall a few blocks from her high school. She was performing in a concert with her school orchestra. She’d told her parents that she was going to stay with a...
They have twenty minutes. It’s all they could steal. There’s no time for romance or foreplay. They’ve gone without for too long. He drops his pants. She lifts her skirt. That’s as long as they’ll wait. Their coupling is frantic—almost violent. A cl...
Kelly and I met on an adult dating site. We were two lonely people in loveless, sexless long term marriages. At the beginning of October of that year, I had to go on a road trip halfway across the country. Sometimes it’s less expensive to go pick up the i...
Kelly and I met on an adult dating site. We were both in non-affectionate, sexless marriages. We had been seeing each other for about a month when these events happened. Kelly texted me one day to say that her monthly friend had arrived. My first (selfish...
Heather Anderson’s stomach lurched as she blankly stared at her desk. She could taste bile, she felt like she might vomit. Heather had just emptied the contents of a mysterious envelope that was waiting for her, and the afterglow from the previous night a...
My husband Bryan and I were on our way to a party that was being hosted by Bryan's best friend Derek. The two had been best friend's since college, meeting in freshman year, a few months before Bryan and I met and got together. Pretty soon the three of us...
She looked at him from across the crowded room. He was gorgeous. He noticed her looking and winked subtly, making her blush. She smiled, a seductive little half smile and then turned away to concentrate on the conversation that was happening. She should h...
