I was standing third in line ready to pick up my car from the Canadian Tire shop on a boring rainy Saturday afternoon close to closing time one August. Had had nothing much to do that day but run errands, and picking up my car was the last. Thought I had picked the perfect moment to walk the two blocks to the shop from my house when the rain stopped, yet just before I got to my destination I was caught in a sudden downpou...

"Right this way" the nurse said as she opened the door. She smiled at me as I approached and her dark brown eyes held eye contact just a little bit longer than one would think necessary as I slid by through the tight doorway. Making it a few steps down the long hallway I realized I did not know which way to go, stopped, and quickly turned my head to ask. Doing so I caught out of the corner of my eye a quick glimpse of her...

I walked that night into the salsa club expecting as usual to find her there, and she was, as always. A glass of red wine in hand, off to one side almost hiding yet on the edge of the dance floor close enough to be asked and pulled onto it. Almost a week had passed since Clara unexpectedly made her way to my front door in the middle of the night. Unlike that other night when she appeared undone she was now dressed to kill...

"Meet in 20 min!" The text message caught me somewhat by surprise sitting there in my meeting on a Tuesday afternoon at work. It was the middle of the day and looking down at my phone I did not know what to think. Clara and I had been seeing each other and fucking like a pair of adolescent bunnies ever since the night she showed up at my door. But it had always been later at night, usually carefully planned, and never nev...

When the door bell rang all my senses went into overdrive sending a rush of panic coupled with disbelief and sexual tension through my body at the thought of who was sure to be on the other side of that door. I looked down at myself instinctively wondering if I was presentable. My jeans were already unbuttoned with the weight of the belt hanging undone threatening to pull them down lower than I would have liked when openi...