Vital Signs It's a public beach. We cannot act overtly. It's fairly empty, though. Somewhere exotic. We have, coincidentally, found ourselves with a day alone. Our partners have both gone off on an organised day trip. We have exchanged the odd pleasantry in passing before, but we don't know each other. We happen to be sitting close on the beach. Celtic Lad I watch you get up and stretch, as we exchange a few words. You sa...

Michael was sitting on the edge of the bed. He was finding this situation completely surreal. The student from his class that he had just started to date wasn’t the student from his class, but her twin sister. And the almost naked young woman in front of him wasn’t the twin sister he thought she was, but was in fact the student from his class... Wow. So he had just spent the last 30 minutes slowly arousing a beautiful, se...

In the morning Michael woke early as he always did. He was instantly aware of Juliette, still sleeping deeply beside him. He was tempted to wake her but then thought better of it. As a student she probably didn’t have to get up this early and might not appreciate his early morning enthusiasm. Instead he rose, showered and shaved and went through to the kitchen to put on coffee, leaving Juliette to sleep. A few minutes lat...

The next day Michael woke in his flat as he normally did, alone. He stretched and wondered sleepily why he had slept so well and why he felt so damn good. And then it all flooded back. The images and emotions of those minutes in his office yesterday afternoon. In his office! And with the naughty, sexy Juliette. Christ though he was terrified someone had heard them, or had guessed what was going on. Luckily his office was...

Michael was nervous. Today was the first proper workshop he had done with his year one drama group at the local University. In fact he had spent most of the last few weeks feeling nervous. It was a strong group of characters, despite the fact that they were all just starting out on this, their freshman term of college. And although they didn’t exactly intimidate him, Michael still felt he needed to be prepared each time t...