I hear the screen door open, and my heart wakes up, Since we left the house this morning, We have been racing back to each other You rush to me, drop your bag, Bury your face in my neck, And I my face in your perfumed hair It envelopes, intoxicates and disarms me Your arms […]
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Definitions: felicitations fe·lic·i·ta·tions /fəˌlisəˈtāSH(ə)nz/ noun words expressing praise for an achievement or good wishes on a special occasion They lay in their marital bed, the second one for both. She on the right, lying on her right side, and he on the left, lying on his back with his eyes open. It is 3am.
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Timmy Jenkins, age 20, accepted a job an entire year before graduating from Stanford University with dual PHDs in Geology and Economics. Competition for him was international and fierce. Finding young men with genius IQs was relatively easy, but Timmy had that one in a million combination of deep and wide technical analytical ability with
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Tina Oppenheimer, 18 years old, graduated high school just a few months ago. This summer vacation, she got an entry level clerical job with a law firm owned by one of her father’s attorney clients, Timmy Einstein, Esq., aged 30. Tina’s parents had a life plan for their daughter. She had been accepted by an
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He watched her walking along their fence, softly humming to herself. A sliver of the top of the sun was just discernible on the eastern horizon now. A butterfly was following behind her and each time she would slow down, most times for no reason, the butterfly’s momentum would carry it dangerously close to her
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She pulled in her driveway and got out of the car. Her earbuds picked up the call when she turned her car off. Joan was on the phone with her eldest son Bert, and they were having the same argument they had been having since her cancer diagnosis two months earlier. Bert: “Mom, you have
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The Hands-Out dating ritual will start about 2035. That is when the technology will become cheap, portable and reliable enough. Tina took extra time getting ready for her date with Timmy. She hadn’t been this excited for a date in a long time. She felt he was a real boy. Her friends laughed at her.
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AUTHOR’S WARNING! GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT! TURN BACK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE AROUSED! Definitions: Paramour – An illicit lover of a married person. Call comes into 911. 911 Operator: “What is your emergency?” Tina Johnson was literally dead moments before she placed this call. In a voice that sounds like a whisper filled with
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We find ourselves in an apartment shared by three twenty-something women in the big city. It is Thursday night, just after work, and two of them are getting ready for their weekly Happy Hour Pub Crawl. Tina, the one not getting ready, has been blind since birth. A few things make her want to avoid
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Wife, video calls Husband: “Where the hell are you? All three location trackers have been displaying “Target’s GPS Signal Lost” for thirty minutes. That is statistically and geographically impossible! Don’t try to use the tunnel excuse because you know and I know the longest tunnel in our area only takes 2 minutes and 45 seconds
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