M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 153

Getting Lucky

I am not this lucky.

Lewis stares up at his bedroom ceiling in a silence that only comes of it being the middle of the night, and lets his fingers creep across the mattress, until they come into the reassuring contact that is skin on warm skin.

Sebastian doesn’t even stir.

But even though there is bare skin right there beneath his fingertips, Lewis still doesn’t believe it, has to turn his head to the side to make sure there really is a warm body beside him in his bed, that his imagination is...

Baggage

This room is bare now. The stripped bedding lays at the foot of the bed, the curtains sit drawn back into their ties, and the thick pine wardrobe looms ominously as though it will topple at any moment.

My luggage is packed and out in the hallway, and the tied-up bin bag waits to be deposited in the refuse bin at the end of the gravel drive.

I sigh, and reach my hand down to the baggage at my feet.

“What are you doing with that?” you say, accusation in your voice.

I feel my throat seize up aga...

Sunday Thinking

I swear I remember talking about this before on here, but it seems that now, more than ever, it’s time for a revisit.

A few years ago I was in Budapest, and against, I suppose, my better judgement, I was talked into visiting the House Of Terror.

As per the website:

Having survived two terror regimes, it was felt that the time had come for Hungary to erect a fitting memorial to the victims, and at the same time to present a picture of what life was like for Hungarians in those times.

To say th...

No Special Occasion

Mark and Rob have an evening together with nothing to enjoy other than each other…

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Oblivious

When is a date not a date? When one of the people on it has no idea that it even is one…

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Tainted By Our Choices – Extract

Jack stretched up just enough to peek down through the tinted glass of his office window at the protesters gathered outside holding hand painted placards and could only bring himself to sigh. They had moved in that morning, encroaching on all the best parking spaces in the parking lot and chanting angry slogans that Jack thought perhaps were kind of funny but would do nothing to stop what was going to happen.

The fracking would be going ahead, whether anyone objected to it or not. Works had a...

By Candlelight

An evening in a cabin in the middle of nowhere is the perfect place for this loved up couple to be making some lasting memories.

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Goaded

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Sunday Thinking

I had an experience this week that I thought I might share, because if ever there’s proof that we need to re-educate ourselves about things – and ourselves – then this was another stark reminder.

I’m currently in a place where, due to things I’ve seen and experienced for myself in the past 12 months, I’ve got the idea lodged in my head that it’s a pretty prejudiced place. Having had to deal with some pretty nasty misogynistic wank last year, and having gotten into arguments with apparently br...

Dormant

It’s been a while since you slept in a single bed, and to be honest you aren’t entirely sure how you got here, but here is where you are, and here is where you’ll be for the foreseeable future.

Moonlight casts shadows through the strip of window and bathes the bare grey floor in a pale half light, right between the desk and the wardrobe.

The night is unbearably silent, and yet, crushingly loud; every wind-rustled leaf, every passing car, every disembodied voice floats past and surrounds you l...