I stopped for a drink after work, just me and a tall Long Island Iced Tea. I sipped the icy cool drink, letting the week fall away, but I didn’t want to go home. Thoughts still plagued me, at work, too many people… too many demands… and my house is too empty… too quiet. I closed my eyes to the big-screen televisions, the football games, the waitresses and bartenders, the boisterous customers placing bets, letting the liqu...

Eden curled up in a large papasan chair with an overstuffed pillow, a blanket, and a cup of cocoa. Usually, she loved evenings by the fireplace, alone with her dreams, but tonight she was unsettled. Her thoughts drifted back to the office, where she had met hundreds of businessmen and models. She’d been unfazed. It would take more than money and a hard body to turn her head. Pickup lines? She’d heard them all. But today,...

Luke sat at a table near the dance floor, mesmerized, and watched Aurora sway to the music. She was absolutely magnificent, and not in the ‘heavily-made-up, girl-trying-to-attract-men,’ way. She embodied a dark, mysterious allure, knowing that men were watching her, caring not, and paying no mind to anyone around her. She was here, dancing in the bar, but she was a million miles away, lost to the music and lyrics. Surroun...

You wounded me deeply, finding some kind of perverse pleasure in it, and I was thinking of all the things I wanted to say - do, while you stood there in the doorway lazily smoking your cigarette. There was a self-satisfied smirk twisting your lips, and I closed my eyes, picturing me slapping it from your face, hearing the resounding crack, letting it echo through the halls of my mind, and feeling the fulfillment of my han...