The typing kept going, getting louder. So loud that the walls started to crack around them. — Stella gripped her mug of coffee harder as she sat through the zoom call. Their hybrid schedule meant she worked three days from home and two in the office. But her team met daily and she had to suffer Otis. She really liked the entire group, but Otis. Honestly, she…

After having gone there so many times when I returned to Paris one of the men asked me where had I been? — I’ve been to Paris multiple times, each time was magic which I am thankful for. It was a place I had wanted to go to for such a long time I was afraid I would be underwhelmed. I was not. I stayed at the same hotel on a very varied…

Completing the 💯 Story Challenge was a rush for sure! My dopamine levels were high from start to finish. I read the human brain was like a computer processing information. That it sees everything like a puzzle it has to figure out for us to navigate the world. …

“What can happen inside there, that can be any more thrilling than you inside me?” — Tyler was upset, and Nichy was uncertain how to soothe him. When they were in the car going back to his apartment, she could tell something was wrong. She placed her hand on his thigh in the least sexual way she could imagine, and looked at him out of the…

This time she remembered how to kiss him, she kissed him thoroughly. — Eliza’s fingers lingered on her lips. Sitting next to Oscar at the bar, her fingers remained still. She wanted to keep the warmth, wanted to keep the sensation…the sensation of his kiss there. She had forgotten, but now that he had kissed her again, she remembered every kiss they had…

Nichy saw stars, and the light show the Eiffel Tower displayed in the distance behind the thin curtain was not nearly as bright… — Nichy looked out onto the street through the leaf-shaped holes, that decorated the small shopping bag where she got her macarons from. She saw Tyler’s thigh through them and looked up over the bag at him. He stared at everything with the wonder that she did, when she was first…

“We messed up cheri,” she told him, her French accent heavier from being in France. “We messed up, and we both hurt people we love.” — He could smell her on the bedsheets. Rafe rubbed his face over the pillow, he had not changed the sheets since the last time he shared a bed with Eliza. He needed her scent to still have something of her. Neither one of them had tried to call the other…

Graham had told her that she would get veto power over who they had a threesome with. Sonia was gorgeous, and stood in front of them like she wanted to be their f*ck doll. — Nichy stared at Sonia. She had not seen her friend in years, she had had to dissolve their friendship when she left Graham. Sonia asked to face time with her, and she agreed. Looking at her now though, Nichy saw anxiety all over her Sonia’s face.

It all just got to her, and she slumped down the wall until she was crouched in the corner. She heaved violently, but tears would not even come. — Eliza realized that if her eyes had been open, it would have been obvious to her that something was going on with Rafe. She had noticed that he was spending more time with his phone, but she suspected it was Severine, which they did not speak about. Because she was…