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No one would be in any doubt when they saw the photos and video clips.
Perfect Choice – Joanna Delooze
I notice you first, which is all the more awkward.
Why Not Guacamole – Jennifer Donnell
… the toy bin was always new, the sheets were cleaned and pressed, the keyboard was sanitized …
Duck Boy – Joseph Szewczyk
“I love my grandmother,” he says, wincing a little, “but I wish she didn’t drink and smoke so much.”
Ulysses, sailing – Sally Reno
You were about to say, “Like the instructions on your Viagra bottle?” but remembered he promised you that necklace in the Duty Free shop.
Hot Ocean Breeze – Mark Rosenblum
Her sigh of disapproval is muted; she avoids confrontation.
Extraction from Lackey Place – Karen Eileen Sikola
… flicking me with droplets before drying them vigorously in the skirts around my rump.
Slut’s Pennies – Gill Hoffs
Estella popped her dentures back in and nodded.
Easy Mourning – Nathaniel Tower
He spends his lunch hour pacing the halls and stairwells of his building, watching his door for telltale metallic sighs.
Housekeeping – Pedro Ponce
I can’t go home yet. Peter is putting the kids to bed.
Two Marshmallows Stacked – Vanessa Weibler Paris
But I loved being kissed and touched. I longed to lose my virginity.
S-L-U-T – Dusty-Anne Rhodes
There was Lado, who came by on nights when Penicello wanted a bristly fugitive with an accent …
Penicello – Meg Tuite
“No one,” she warned, “wants to be the mother or the husband of damaged goods.”
Nice Girls – Doris Dembosky
He looks at me with deep brown eyes and what must be the longest eyelashes I have seen all day …
Espresso – Matt Potter
We went to the nearest café. Two seconds after I ordered, I couldn’t say what it was.
Hostage – Maude Larke
He ducked from the camera, “No evidence,” he said, with a grin.
The Shallow End – Elaine Donovan
She sat back down, that red dress sliding halfway up from the netherworld to eternity.
Lessons from The Gridiron: Voyeurism and Gingivitis – Cheryl Anne Gardner
“Fair enough,” I replied with a laugh. She had certainly worked me up.
Give it a go – Andrew Bowles
My dad had been gone so long I couldn’t remember his face.
My Own Gun – John Riley
“It makes him cuter,” Angie said. “Well, he is a looker,” Mark said, winking.
Sex in the Time of Now – Len Kuntz
“I gonna get some retard to kick his ass. See what kind of an action I can stir up at that cesspool.”
Crossed – Phillis Ideal
She had been lying there alone for a long time.
Three Minutes – David James Keaton
Tommy don’t like it when we ditch one.
Clocks – Tiffany White
The reality chef shoves the plate into her hands. It’s hot enough to burn, not hot enough to drop.
Red Light – Stephen V. Ramey
… leaning into her space, badgering Delia into going out to dinner with her unmarried cousin.
Dealbreaker – Michael Webb