Tag Archives: Christopher Newman
Steph & Cherry: Water-Loo — Christopher Newman
Cherry and I stood in the bathroom and stared at our latest troubles without speaking. She was dressed in a white tee shirt which reached to mid-thigh. Her black hair was falling around her shoulders. No shoes and, if I knew Cherry, no knickers. She had a right to relax. Today was her day off. [...]
Steph & Cherry: Christmas Goose — Christopher Newman
The holiday season was here at last. Since the first of the month, when I’d been introduced to a part of myself I didn’t know existed it was a truly Happy Christmas. Cherry, my flat-mate and a burly female lorry driver named Toni had caught me peeping in on them. To be truthful I thought [...]
Steph & Cherry: What You See Is What You Get — Christopher Newman
“Oh, baby… give it to me,” Cherry said, her voice a hot, long moan. It was the sound of her voice that woke me up from a restless sleep. It was Friday night and I was dateless, home alone. Obviously Cherry wasn’t. “Easy… take it slow…and e-easy,” I heard my roommate groan. “Oh yeah, I like [...]
Privacy — Christopher Newman
It was hot. The early afternoon sun crossing the sky above me was like a giant eye, some mythical sun god spying on me. Sitting around my backyard pool, alone I basked in the heat. All around the outskirts of my in-ground pool was a tall privacy fence. Living in a blue collar neighborhood I [...]
Sophronia’s Portrait — Christopher Newman
“You ought to take that thing down,” my mother said, “it’s awful. I’ve always hated that picture your grandfather seemed to love.” Standing in the now-empty house where my mother’s father lived by himself for twenty years I felt strange. Like some invader, a criminal who had sneaked in to steal what he could before [...]
Getting Trim(med) — Christopher Newman
It was Saturday morning—nine o’ clock and I watched from my car as the place I got my hair cut opened. The night before, out at the clubs had been a disaster bust without even a slip of paper with a phone number to show for it. I knew the problem and it had a [...]
Steph & Cherry: Pub-lic Affections — Christopher Newman