The blankets hide us in warm safety. Your legs part when I put my hand on your thigh, and I feel the moist arousal. You offer me your virginity. Yet, I cannot. Or, I should not.
Three years planning and your five-thousand-mile journey stymied by a single look.
While you were already in the air, just half a day ago, I fell in love. I lack the wisdom to know what to do next.
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The planning and the journey – the foundations for a wealth of speculation about the run up to this moment. Enticing.
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Thanks so much, Sandra
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Awesome stuff Neil, what a conundrum.
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Thanks so much
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The best laid plans…
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Life, they say, is what happens while we’re making other plans
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Quite a sticky situation. 😀
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Literally
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Oh dear. That is bad timing of the highest magnitude.
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And now he must either live with events or honour his choices
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That’s a different kind of story. Good one.
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Thanks so much, Trish
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A single look can change our life & make or break!
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And knock-on to other people’s lives too
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This is so clever Neil. It says so much in so few words. Well done. D
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Thanks so much, Derek
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Now that’s what I call a colossal dilemma. Loved this take on the photo prompt, Neil.
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Thanks so much, Susan
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‘Tis a sad situation for all around… Obligation vs desire.
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And self-control versus yielding. Maybe also truth versus consideration
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Truth. And having just watched the fourth season of The Crown (no matter how much fiction, there has to be a smattering of the truth) I am reminded of desire vs duty. All of them lost so much.
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Still, they all have nice houses
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True – most of them, I should think
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Yes, they have most of the houses
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Perhaps he should send back the mail-order bride. I wonder what the return policy is?
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I think it depends on whether you’ve unwrapped the product
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Well, Neil, this is a brammer!
Sex and morality, the dilemma that destroys so many…
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Thanks so much
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Go after her of course! Good story Neil 🙂
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But which her? Thanks so much
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The affairs of the heart can be cruelly taxing. What a dilema.
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There’s no easy way out for him. Or her
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Super writing, Neil. I felt I was under the covers myself. What an agonising dilemma…
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Thanks so much, Penny
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Emotion will extinguish wisdom 99% of the time. Few would be able to look past the lust to the logic. Of course, those who do may regret it forever.
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There are probably no good outcomes here
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I do wonder who is playing who?
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That thought never entered his head
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What a long build up to be stymied at the end. Hoping he makes the right choice.
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I’m not sure there are any right choices here
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Such a fascinating, erotic story. It makes me think of the old wisdom that good romantic fiction depends on setting as much as anything else. You think it’s about the sex but actually it’s about everything else. I feel both pulled in and called out as a voyeuristic reader of someone else’s complex story and personal choices. Really well done on all counts.
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Thanks so much, Anne
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What a conundrum…
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Absolutely
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oh, i get it. he’s unable to rise to the occasion. 🙂
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More like unwilling
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Oooo ouch. What will he do now? Will he be honest? You’ve detailed a tricky decision to come. Well done
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He has no idea what to do
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Poor girl. It’s a lose/lose for her. Well done, Neil.
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Thanks so much, Linda
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The uncertainty and doubt linger as self-control is tested. Once over the edge there is no way back.
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That is exactly his dilemma
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Reminds me of the line in Romeo and Juliet, not the play, the Dire Straits’ song – it was just that the time was wrong.
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So much of human pain is just that – timing
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Life’s full of dilemmas, no way around it, someone usually ends up hurt.
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Often, yes
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Ah The eternal human dilemma of emotions versus logic. It’s not always emotions that ruin us though. Sometimes as you say there are no right choices. Wonderfully done, Neil .
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Thanks so much, Fatima
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Three years is a long time to wait.
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It probably felt like forever to him
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Looks like some plans have gone awry. Love can do that, but so can infatuation. Well done Neil!
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Thanks so much
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What a dilemma. Somebody will get hurt one way or another.
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Real life is often like that. Fiction less so
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As the song went life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. Beautifully written.
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Thanks so much
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Unfortunate predicament. Going to be hard to extricate himself from this one
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There are no good solutions here
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Just a glance. He must have some glance. heh Hopefully she’ll come to her senses without a broken heart or a Glenn-Close-Fatal-Attraction obsession.
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He does have a powerful and enveloping gaze.
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😁
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