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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Fiction: Mostly Lesbian

Writer’s Note: This is loosely based off of an experience I had years ago with a woman who affectionately described herself as “90% lesbian.” Unlike this story, she was single and we never did anything with each other. I knew something was up at work when my boss began starving me for work. My usual, …

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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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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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Haven’t We Met Before?

It was a mid-January night complete with a brutal cold snap straight from the Arctic hovering over the country for what seemed like an eternity. Back in October, Autumn went from “late Summer” to “Winter Wonderland” almost overnight and relentlessly stayed that way. Adding insult to injury, we were at end of a round of …

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A Swinging Birthday Party

Mixing work lives with social lives can be a tricky thing. As a matter of practice, I tend to keep my “real life” and work life separate, mainly because – and taking exception to this admittedly exhibitionist-born, attention seeking blog – I’m a private person at heart. It’s not a control issue, but more a …

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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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