“Why are you always so mean to me? You put me down whenever you can, even if I’m trying to be nice to you.” Standing over the dog, she scrunches up the towel and chucks it through the open door of the bathroom. The dog seems disappointed and looks at me with a frown. “I’m… Read more

“You don’t treat me how I deserve to be treated,” she says, rubbing the dog’s ears with the towel. The dog loves it. Cocking his head to one side, he scratches himself with his paw. He doesn’t need to, but the pleasure is too much for him to bear. “Do you mean as a woman,… Read more

Waltzing back into the room, she hands me one of the beers. Swigging from it before pressing the cold bottle against my forehead, I watch as she places the dog down onto the floor between her bare feet. Removing the towel wrapped around her body, she begins to dry the thing while speaking to it… Read more

The first thing I see is not what I expect to see. Instead of her beaming face, the dog’s wet nose pokes from behind the door. Creeping menacingly, his snout emerges with her humming the theme from Jaws. I say she’s humming it; she’s trying to but can’t because of her constant giggling. After a… Read more

With her hand on the doorknob, the bathroom door opens an inch and then no more. “Are you ready for us?” she asks. I am, and yet for some reason, my mind has wandered again. “Sure am,” I say, lying. In the seconds before her reappearance, I’m taken back to a random fear from my… Read more

“Are you ready for us?” she eagerly asks from behind the door. Although I’m not doing anything other than looking up at the ceiling, I’m not ready at all. I wish to remain by myself a while longer. Perhaps the words I’m searching for will appear. Rising through the cracks in the floorboards, they’ll tickle… Read more

“I’m almost finished,” she cries. Her words reach me this time, yet it’s not until she repeats herself that they sink in. “Oi! I hope you haven’t fallen asleep. You’re supposed to be writing.” To this, the dog barks excitedly. She promptly laughs, and I can hear the two of them getting out of the… Read more

Every thrust of my hips is like a knife to her fluttering heart. It gives her palpitations. So does drinking soda. She tells me that when I press her face into the pillow with her right arm held behind her back, she imagines her mouth filled with sand. The sand of Lake Berryessa. Golden, warm,… Read more

I want to drink my beer, but can’t be bothered getting up off the floor. It’s not comfortable in any way, shape or form, but the misery in my bones keeps me low to the ground. Closing my eyes, I picture Meeko’s body in the shower. Nude and in a state of flux. Her sex… Read more

The cover reveal for my upcoming book, X and I: A Novel. . This, my fourth book, tells the story of two lovers who embark on a strange journey to be reunited with each other after spending several years apart. I blogged the majority of the story over thirteen months, and have since been hard… Read more