Annie Bradford, a highly respected College Dean from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was visiting some colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta, in hope of enticing one of them to accept a position at her university. Annie was a very young forty and divorced with no children. Her husband had left her for a younger woman four years before and, heartbroken, she'd thrown herself into her work. We meet her as she’s just finished wat...

I had taken the red-eye flight so many times between L.A. and Boston that when I finally had an opportunity to take a business trip to London and had to be in Berlin the following day for a meeting with the marketing director of our Germany office, I jumped at the chance to take the train and actually see the countryside. I didn't want my boss to worry so typed out a quick text: "Hey Karen, I'll be in around 2:00 tomorrow...

Kate’s finger hovered hesitantly over the mousepad of her dated laptop. As she closed her eyes and sucked in a deep breath, she swiftly clicked down on the button. Just like that, her tantalising order of erotic goodies disappeared from her screen, shot though the invisible depths of the internet and promptly delivered to the “Enchanting Desires” warehouse. As Kate looked back over the items she had just purchased for her...

Miriam was Nigerian but had lived in London since she was eighteen. Now she was around fifty and a secondary school teacher. She had a son but had never married, and what made that remarkable was that she was deeply religious, to the point of having had grave reservations about having sex with me because we weren’t married. We had met online through a dating site that was very proud of its squeaky-clean reputation and the...

From the kitchen window in my little white house on the hill, as I fondly refer to it, I could see the bounty from my handiwork spanning across my isolated backyard.  On one side, my flower garden stretched like a colorful patchwork quilt along the six-foot-tall white picket fence all the way back to the towering oak tree in the far corner.  There, a new wooden swing hung from one of the thick branches above a large patch...

Dave and Brittany are a couple in their twenties. They are about as cliché as you can get and quite old fashioned in some of their ideas. Being brought up in a very small country town will have that effect. High school sweethearts since their early teens, they never had any time apart or any other partners, provided you don’t count those strange sleep-overs and interesting weekends with her best friend Lisa, and Brittany...

As a carefree high school senior, Dylan was known for his athleticism, congeniality, and good looks. He had it all. He could have had any girl he wanted, of course, although he only dated Daisy McLaren. She was his sweetheart since their sophomore year. She loved Dylan as much as he loved her. They married soon after graduation in the summer of '43. Their honeymoon year was cut short when things abruptly changed. Dylan fo...

When I met my husband, Oliver, he loved fucking his little Korean girlfriend’s brains out. Oliver never thought about dating Asian girls until he saw “The Interview” with Seth Rogen and James Franco. After seeing Franco and Randall Park party with those “Korean” girls, he became obsessed with Asian girls. I never considered his ethnic-based attraction offense because I loved getting my brains fucked out. It didn’t really...

In high school, and even into my early twenties, I could never imagine being attracted to anyone. Couldn't fathom being romantically attached to anyone either. It was hard enough for me to meet one person I could call a true friend. I feel dramatic saying this, but with my high school and college friends, socializing felt more akin to an obligation rather than something I chose to do willingly for my own happiness. Althou...

Things had gone from bad to worse. To say I had dug myself into a deep hole would be an understatement. Marge had turned my day to day life to a hell on earth. If I was not doing her work for her, I was doing her personal chores, anything from picking up her lunch to walking her dogs. She wasn't the only one that was hard to deal with. Kendall had kept accurate to her words; there wasn't a minute of the day where she wasn...