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Adventure

Outdoor passion, travel encounters, spontaneous locations

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Wyatt's Sharpening Stone

The way he looked at me wasn't a glance; it was a reconnaissance mission, and I was wide open for the taking.

28 min · 33 views · desert heat

I Hope You Don't Need This Shirt Back

The way you handled that upright bass—all thick wood and vibrating tension—should have been a federal travel warning for anyone with a pulse.

9 min · 129 views · jazz club

The AV Closet in Porter Hall

You are standing by the punch bowl like a martyr waiting for a stake, and frankly, the martyrdom is making me incredibly wet.

35 min · 229 views · college reunion

"I’m Going to Need a Very Good Reason to Open This Door."

The bass was so loud it didn't just hit my ears; it vibrated the spare change in my pocket and the teeth in my head.

23 min · 224 views · music festival

Julian's Compass

I watched the sweat track a path between your breasts like a river cutting through a valley I hadn't yet mapped.

9 min · 232 views · tropical storm

A Loose Sequin on the Rug

He tasted like a four-hundred-dollar bottle of Scotch and the kind of career-ending decision that looks spectacular in the right lighting.

10 min · 232 views · hudson valley

Elias's Cufflink

I want to see if you taste like that bourbon you’ve been nursing, or if you’re just as sweet and dangerous as a peach soaked in moonshine.

12 min · 309 views · jazz club

—she was holding a book she wasn’t reading

The ice in her cup had melted into a flat, gray slurry, but she kept stirring it with a plastic straw, looking at me like I was a problem she was looking forward to solving.

35 min · 334 views · sleeper train

October 14th, 10:14 PM

I wasn't looking for the safe, not yet; I was looking for the specific way he held his champagne flute, like he was weighing a weapon.

44 min · 279 views · masquerade ball

Brittle Steam

The steam was so thick I couldn’t see my own knees, but I could hear her breathing, rhythmic and heavy, just three feet away.

22 min · 330 views · mountain spa

Seriously, Who Does This?

His hand was already moving under the hem of my borrowed robe, finding the wet heat of me with a terrifying, practiced accuracy.

25 min · 943 views · luxury resort

Grip

Liam looked like a mid-century modern chair—expensive, structurally sound, and entirely uncomfortable for anything but a short, high-impact stay.

8 min · 1,118 views · reconnect