Thursday, June 22nd
“Wow, hi, Nia!” Miss Jessop said, “I haven’t seen you in so long.”
“I’m back working now,” she said.
“I know, Geoff told me. Must be exciting...
2021-10-28 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostGeoff saw Rocco for the first time coming out of the can with Nia and walking down the narrow hall back to the bar. Rocco was standing out in the main area and Geoff could see him toe to top. He wa...
2021-10-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Hii-ii, Geoff,” Angie said and put her hand on his upper arm, smoothing it against his sweater like she had bad news. The other one looked back behind her and Ang, and Geoff saw a hallway ther...
2021-10-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostFriday, June 9th
It was a long drive up to Innisfil and by the time he got on the 400, it was dark. Nia had called two hours ago from Rocco’s truck. They’d been at a work site in Schomber...
2021-10-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGeoff was back there, rubbing her feet. She was face down, knees bent, feet in his strong oily hands. Head pressed to the pillow, she watched out the window at the night sky, thinking about the thi...
2021-10-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor lunch she ordered an Energy Unagi roll and a seaweed salad from Hashi Izakaya. Crispy shrimp, crabmeat, and cream cheese, topped with barbecued eel, only half eaten, the remains stacked in blac...
2021-10-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostNia was a little too tired for a real fat girl night, the binge watching part, but they tried it anyway. He let her know of the name change—that Fat Girl Night would be now called Sugar Poops Nig...
2021-10-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost twenty degrees out, but it felt colder than that. The sun was out, though, and that was all that mattered. Geoff went out for a walk at two-forty-five, down Garden Street, out to Quee...
2021-10-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGeoff snuck out of bed while Nia was splashing in the shower and got down to the kitchen, excited to cook her bacon and eggs. It was four fucking forty-five in the morning, and while he dreamed of ...
2021-10-07 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostDevlin said, “Shoot— Ask me and I’ll tell you, Josh.”
“What happened at Tiffany’s cottage?”
“What about it?”
Josh repeated: “What happened at Tiffany’s cotta...
2021-10-06 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting with Jenny went well, like he thought it would. He had a grasp on the trains they wanted and the success of the first book made them pander to him this time around, which he was unaccus...
2021-09-30 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostGeoff asked her, “What was Rocco like?”
“He was chubby. Chunky.”
“He wasn’t a stud muffin like your Dino?”
“Ha. No, he was . . . he’s more like their dad. He was...
2021-09-28 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAngie’s aunt Stella laughed so hard she almost spilled her wine. When she got it together, she said, “I don’t care what you do, but you better not tell the boys!”
Angie’s cousin, Gr...
2021-09-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday morning, before lunch, Josh got an unexpected call to his personal phone.
When the name Devlin Stone displayed on the screen of his iPhone, Josh chilled. The name carried so much exis...
2021-09-25 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he got back down, he found Nia sitting with her long legs up on the couch, using the remote to scroll through Netflix. He slipped into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee. He was go...
2021-09-24 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostNia made French toast and bacon, and Geoff brought the girls’ bikes out of storage. He’d put them in the crawlspace to keep them out of the way over the winter. He had the padlocked door open n...
2021-09-22 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe headache was intense. Not electric and sharp and stinging, but slow and steady, an omnipresent thud that beat rubber hammers against the back of her eyes with her pulse.
But she was in hi...
2021-09-20 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNia released his balls, and he heaved breath into her hair, made it rustle and waft with sweet tropical coconut and papaya. With a quick circular swipe of her wrist, Nia’s hand dove inside his sw...
2021-09-18 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNow she had something to work with.
It was hard to believe how it had all progressed. Hard to imagine that what Devlin said about Josh could be true. And Josh’s truth was a path to her own ...
2021-09-17 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPhilippe mounted the steps ahead of him, beer in one hand, the other holding an apple with a bite out of it. They emerged into the hot and bright, the boat’s rooftop awning retracted to give them...
2021-09-16 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFriday, May 12
Geoff J. Kane was on a deadline, but tonight he was silkscreening. In three weeks he had to turn in fourteen large scale drawings of happy trains for his editor. The Big Book o...
2021-09-15 00:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostPhilippe smiled the way someone does when they want to disarm you. Either placating or guilty, Byron couldn’t tell. Maybe it was both. Philippe said, “Hey, Byron,” calm and collected.
...
2021-09-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKimmy considered something, a sly look on her face, eyes off to the side. She regarded him. “What would that look like?”
“What would what look like?”
“If we were going to be k...
2021-09-11 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJosh relaxed, sinking into the bed and focusing on what she did. Kimmy took her time, soft and slow, and so loving. So caring. It went on until he thought he couldn’t take it, and a worry began. ...
2021-08-25 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Sunday morning sunlight, she woke up horny. Josh still lay asleep in bed next to her.
It had been a full week without sex. No sex at all. The first Monday back, she’d expected to mee...
2021-08-05 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the morning light the dirty talk seemed strange and otherworldly. Like it hadn’t been him who’d uttered those terrible words. Like it hadn’t been Cheyenne who’d responded to them.
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2021-07-20 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey descended the ladder, Cheyenne going first, then they entered the main cabin, walked down three bedrooms, passing the bathroom where he’d been with Carla, and into their small bedroom suite....
2021-07-15 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen they returned to the top deck, their friends were waiting for the result. It was Carla up ahead of him, hopping up on the deck and waiting for him to join her.
Scarlet said, “Well?”<...
2021-07-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Nine people, forty minutes past midnight, in a houseboat on bobbing black water in the midd...
2021-07-07 00:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostVery sorry I've been absent. You can imagine it must be serious for me to do this. It's something I'd rather not discuss and just let some time go by so I can deal with it.
I've paused the Ju...
2021-06-01 01:50:45 +0000 UTC View Post