Sunlight threw thick dusty strokes of heat on my skin. Was it summer now? I tried to lift my head from the pillow but it seemed weighed down with all the worries of the world. Maybe I should go back to wine and lay off the brandy. I never had the constitution to pull of [...]
I wanted to call Sarah but you can’t just call a married housewife on a Friday evening − I might have disturbed her while ironing her husband’s shirts. Also, what would I say? But, as always, the desire burned hot and feverish inside of me. She would bite her bottom lip as I said my [...]
I wanted to be alone but it seemed impossible. Lucy always hovered around somewhere. My muscles cramped, my nerves twitched and my skin felt raw and powerless, exposing my veins as if my blood was there for the taking. Of course, Lucy tricked her mind into thinking I had broken up with Claire for her, [...]
“Do you love me?” Claire asked. “That’s not the point.” “It’s all that matters, baby.” I pushed her off me and stood up. I ran my fingers through my hair and realised I needed a shower. Claire sat with her back against a kitchen cabinet. Maybe for the first time ever I saw her age [...]
I had no one left to blame. I could have come up with a contrived story of Lucy staying over at Eleanor’s but Claire was smarter than that. I sank down on a kitchen chair, my defences down and my cover almost blown. “What’s wrong, baby?” Claire asked. She sat down next to me. Her [...]