Seaside Stories

“A dainty young city woman, pretty and vivacious, short of skirt and of hair—” “Sounds like Daphne, all right,” Julia commented wryly, flipping her long red curls for emphasis. Tommy grinned at his cousin over the top of his newspaper. “It’s right here in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. The piece is called Odd Folk Inhabit Maine’s Lonely Isles and boy, they aren’t kidding.” Daphne, who had been listening through the ope...

Finally, the day for my long-planned trip to Ireland had arrived. Donna and I were ex-work colleagues who had grown very close during the lockdowns. We had enjoyed a lot of phone & cyber sex while we were separated and isolated. After the restrictions had lifted, Donna had flown to London for a week, and we had enjoyed a marathon sex session, living out all of the fantasies we had explored when we were locked down. After...