We arrive at the restaurant just as dusk paints the sky in soft pinks fading to violet. The hostess offers us a seat on the patio to catch the last stretch of sunset before moving inside. Your hand settles firmly around my waist as we follow her past two other couples. She leads us to a curved booth at the end of the dock, secluded just enough, and you slide in close beside me. Drinks are ordered, the waiter disappears, a...

Cassidy nervously fidgeted with the hem of her sleep shirt as she sat cross-legged on the floor of Imani's bedroom. The three friends, Cassidy, Imani, and Dawn, had just finished watching a movie and were now chatting and laughing together, as they always did at their sleepovers. "I still can't believe Mr. Nowak gave me an A on that math assignment," Cassidy said shyly, pushing her glasses up her nose. "I thought for sure...

It’s just you and me, the bathroom glowing soft under the dim lights, the air already heavy with the promise of heat. You’re standing there in that silky robe I love, the one that clings to your curves and slides off your shoulders like a tease. Your eyes meet mine, sparkling with that mix of defiance and desire that drives me insane. I step closer, my fingers brushing your collarbone, undoing the tie of your robe with a...

Once upon a time, there was a fair maiden who knew nothing about the birds and the bees. That sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale, but then fairy tales are about fantasy like this story, at least in the beginning. We all know about Grimms' "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Well, we know the traditional version. Who among us can't imagine that Snow White wasn't so snowy white after all, and that she didn't have some...

I decided to have sex with Justin. It was not a decision I took lightly and one I thought about, but in the end, I decided I wanted the boy, and since my husband was going to allow me to do it, I thought, why not? I was also curious about what it would be like to have sex with another person. Another thing that encouraged me to have sex with Justin was that when I told my decision to my husband, Patrick refused to have se...

Following her tryst with Victor, Amanda had enough money to pay for car insurance. When the insurance was paid, she began driving her mom’s car or borrowing her cousin Babsi’s 1998 Ford Escort. She thought the model had a fitting name. Amanda’s mom asked where she got the money to pay the insurance. Amanda had already thought up a lie. She told her mom, “There is this nerdy guy, Jordan, at school whose dad is a stockbroke...

Siobhan and I had talked for years about checking out Comicorgy, but this was the first time everything had lined up for us to go. We’d settled on going as Terrance and Tiffany Tempest, a superhero couple of radiation-empowered scientists we’d always had a soft spot for. We’d really gone all out on the perfect costumes — skintight scarlet body suits with white accents and subtle raised lines, to suggest the presence of fu...

She waited for me in a dimly lit corner booth, half-shielded by a frosted glass partition and a tall vase of lilies. The restaurant was busy but intimate, candlelight flickering off polished cutlery, the low hum of conversation blending with the clink of glasses. From our vantage point, I could see the bar and most of the dining room, enough to feel exposed but not enough to feel truly hidden. Her mischievous smile curled...