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: 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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Fiction: Thy Neighbor is Very Loved

DISCLAIMER: This is one of my first attempts at erotic fiction, and only a precious few have ever read it (they gave me good feedback, so someone liked it). That being said, this story is cliché beyond words, a single guy’s wet dream, and was more than a little painful for me to dig up …

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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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Fiction: The Boss’ Wife

Richard sat back in his chair, staring at the computer screen. “Richard? Helloooo…are you there?” Richard disjointedly looked up from the spreadsheet at Alex, who was sitting on the other side of the desk, “Huh, what?” Alex laughed a little, “God man, where were you?” Richard shook his head, “Sorry…mind was wondering.” “I can see …

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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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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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