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Romance

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I Definitely Didn't Need the Extra Glass

Your mouth tasted like the heavy, iron-rich bottom of a glass of Petit Verdot, and I was already drunk on the proximity.

13 min · 825 views · napa valley

Marc's Umbrella

You are leaning against the marble countertop of the bar, your knuckles white as you grip a silver Dunhill lighter you do not use.

14 min · 2,626 views · rainy afternoon

Did You Really Expect Me to Believe You Had Never Used a Pasta Press Before?

I watched the way your thumb smoothed over the flour on the marble, a rhythmic, unconscious erasure of everything but our immediate proximity.

8 min · 45 views · slow burn

Leave Your Ring in the Car

The jazz is a jagged thing tonight, all elbows and sour notes, but you are steady as a cast-iron skillet.

9 min · 690 views · jazz club

Watch the Perimeter

You tasted like copper and rain and that cheap lime seltzer you’d been nursing since the sun went down over the main stage.

13 min · 838 views · slow burn

September 14th, 5:12 AM

You stood there like a goddamn monument to my own poor decisions, dripping wet and holding a stolen bottle of Barolo.

15 min · 415 views · yacht cruise

Willa's Bracelet

The clasp snagged on the cuff of my jacket, a tiny silver anchor keeping us moored in a room full of people we both despised.

22 min · 484 views · art gallery

Gauge

I could feel the vibration of the tracks through her hip bones, a steady thrumming that made every slide of my hand feel like a confession.

13 min · 443 views · train journey

The Salt Cave

I told him the mud wrap was a spiritual cleansing, but I really just wanted to see if his composure would crack under the silt.

14 min · 340 views · spa resort

April 12th, 6:14 AM

I’ve spent ten years trying to write a chemistry read that felt half as inevitable as the way your knees bracketed my hips.

12 min · 714 views · amtrak

—but you're the one holding the light meter

She’s standing there in that silk slip looking like a tactical error I’m about to make with my eyes wide open.

10 min · 257 views · photography studio

Watch the Rope

The linen of my sundress was scratchy against my sunburn, but his hand was rougher, catching on the fabric like a burr.

19 min · 464 views · mediterranean yacht