Playful Escapades

The first kiss went well. Then your brain, keen to preserve the atmosphere, supplied a sentence about parking restrictions. This happens. Attraction…

My wife, Laura, was talking about ambition during a drive for coffee. She could not understand people who said they wanted a different career but never…

Sarah filled Tom’s home office with balloons. Tom opened the door, surveyed the cheerful obstruction, and asked whether this was affection or a change…

John told Jane he had a meeting at headquarters. Jane told John she had an appointment that would take most of the afternoon. Both delivered the news…

Mike and Sally were bored with their evenings. Neither said this especially well. Instead, each privately decided that the missing excitement might be…

My wife, Emma, changed her intimate grooming. I noticed, wondered why, and then allowed a fairly ordinary observation to become a detective series with…

There are many ways to say you feel sexual desire. Some are clear, some are playful, and some make it sound as though you have developed a minor…

Ten months after separating from my wife, I was still married on paper and becoming impatient with the paper. The relationship had ended after her…

After a month of dating, Rachel told me I was not meeting her needs. I put down my coffee. This sounded like a conversation worth having before either…

At the blackjack table, I found myself talking to a woman wearing an impressive arrangement of rings on her left hand. I quietly placed her in the…

Valentine’s Day supplied several opportunities for me to mistake an ordinary interaction for a significant event. I managed most of them competently.

After a break, Emma and I were trying again. This should have involved discussing what had changed and what we wanted. Instead, I found a box of Magnum…