As a kid, I used to walk my paper route dreaming that my boyfriend would drive up in his car, just to surprise me. He never did ( Read more... )

Last night we got home from a club and he said "I have a surprise for you."

I lay in bed with my eyes and he said "I've been planning this all night."

And when I opened them, he had started to play "Once More with Feeling".
Warning: lovey-doviness ahead ( Read more... )

I'm reading (well, re-reading) Heinlein again, and I realize how much of who I am comes from him. This plain, outspoken, no bullshit voice that I think of as my own is so very much his. Thanks to Heinlein, I thought, I really did, that monogamy was just a farce, a pretense kept up by most people out of custom and habit. I never imagined myself ( Read more... )