The Drive to Resolution
Short StoriesOn a different day, she would have called Basil to hang out or just drive around. She shook her head… he hadn’t even called to apologise after that embarrassing night.
On a different day, she would have called Basil to hang out or just drive around. She shook her head… he hadn’t even called to apologise after that embarrassing night.
She believed that an unhappy spouse should consider divorce rather than stay in a marriage that would disrespect their spouse.
From the beginning, she had viewed her marriage to Elias as a divine plan – they were fulfilling God’s purpose.
She chuckled, turned away from the window and took a deep breath. With that breath came a vivid image of a hotel cabin with only one man in it.
As he took in the ambiance of the environment, his thoughts strayed to her and he closed his eyes. He would give anything to see her again.
We should have left about an hour ago to resume our normal lives, but… There in the bathroom, as our bodies rubbed against each other, we kissed, and we touched, and we couldn’t resist the urge and started the second round against the walls of the bathroom.
Desire quickly overtook the shock of her kiss, and Randy held her as he poured all the seven days of his daydreams into her. This wasn’t why he came, but why couldn’t he have it all? He returned her kiss with equal fire.
He should have kept his silence, for no sooner had the words come out of his mouth than a hot sting flew across his face. His eyes watered immediately but he knew he could not cry; crying would invite more beatings. Why was his mother so violent?
Borketey and I had been having an emotional affair for four years. What started during the lockdown in 2020 as a harmless chat between two long-time friends who rarely got in touch developed quickly into an emotional attachment. In all the four years of our “affair”, we had never had any sexual involvement, even though he knew I wouldn’t turn him down.
As Dorothy lay in his arms, unable to fall asleep because of the new things she had discovered, she concluded that the fairy tales had not done justice to the ending of their stories. She was definitely going to rewrite them with Duncan.