Fiction: Maggie (Part 2)

SOME BACKGROUND: Much like Part 1, this story has grounding in reality…to a point. The plot is all fiction; however, the other characters are based on other people I’ve talked to or met, and the things we do are ones that the original date/hook up and I touched on in our conversations. Like me, she …

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FICTION: Maggie (Part 1)

SOME BACKGROUND: This story is based on what I expected to be a promising, but turned into an incredibly confusing date/hook up. The general story leading up to our getting intimate is more or less based in reality, but overall finer details are a product of artistic license. For whatever reason, she had a sudden …

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Fiction: Figuring Things Out (Part 1)

WRITER’S NOTE: Minh is based on someone I met a very long time ago. Like Minh, she was a bit of an enigma - mixed signals and awkward conversations. To this day, I’m still not entirely sure what her mindset was, but for the record, nothing happened with her and I. A week ago I …

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Blind Date, Blind Expectations

Blind Expectations I was a little apprehensive about this bar. Five months earlier I had my encounter with a woman here who thought having a knock-down, drag-out fight with her mother on the phone was the perfect way to begin a first date. The other minor wrinkle with this evening was my bracing for the …

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The Red Spectacular

Like many people, I’ve always been enraptured with the holiday season. From late October (I consider Halloween, my favorite holiday, to be the start of the season) until New Year’s Eve, the world changes – both physically with the onslaught of decorations and lights, and metaphysically as we’re reminded of the good things in the …

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Awkward Date Leads to Awkward Spooning

As someone who embraced the massive technological innovation known as the Internet, I utilized the magic of online dating sites. Back in the day, there was the “one stop shop” convenience of Match.com, but now there’s almost no end to the number of dating sites – one for almost every social interest, fetish or preference …

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Is Age Really Just a Number?

When it comes someone’s personal standards, habits or predilections, I’ve always maintained a combination of to each their own and there’s someone out there for everyone philosophy. Love is love – it comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and combinations; and beauty is in the eye of the beholder (I try very hard not to …

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The Accidental Threesome

I don’t normally do rebound relationships. After most relationships, I tend to go “cold turkey.” While I miss physically having someone, I need the down time to emotionally recover and center myself. Also, it’s been my experience from others who frequently or even habitually do the rebound bit seem to go through far too many …

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A Chance Encounter with a Mature Woman

This was some time ago – I was in my mid-30s, and still enjoying the free and easy/commitment-free bachelor life. Dating was a luxurious mixture of the bar scene (not always a favorite given my introvert tendencies), occasional blind dates with friends-of-friends and/or their coworkers, and the awkwardly fun and diabolically frustrating dating sites. I …

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Dating Rituals of the Socially Awkward

The DC area can be a tricky place when you’re single. For starters, it’s a workaholics’ dream come true, especially if power, money or good old fashioned “palace intrigue” are someone’s raison d’etre. That makes for very busy types who spend far more than the minimum forty-hour work week focused on their professional careers, deals …

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