Akemi is upstairs nursing a cold. Mitchell hadn't especially wanted to attend their downstairs neighbors' party, and now she's asked him to go on his own "as a favor." "They aren't even my people. They're yours." He can't speak their language, and they make little effort at. his After a few drinks and still fueled by a sense of injustice, he makes a play for Akemi's best friend.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "It was late afternoon, very late, pressing toward evening, and the last sunlight reached deep into the apartment, all the way to Akemi, walking nude through the living room on her way to the shower. The light cast a glow on her but it was faint, like fireworks about to flicker out, soft orange heightening the warmth of her skin with its gradations, marks where bra straps had been, etc." Short chapters. New episode a...

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "We even came together. First time and we came together. Can you beat that? Add love and it's unbeatable. Do I sound stupid? That's because words don't do this justice. They don't come close." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "Watch out for the powerful professional. Watch your wallet. Watch your wife." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. " While she was back in Japan I found her absence almost physically painful at times. One morning I saw an ad for a job teaching English in Tokyo and thought, 'Why not apply for it on the off-chance? If she ends up staying in her country, I could join her there, support myself at least for a year or two while we see what happens.'" Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

In an international marriage, bodies meet where minds can't. Akemi and Mitchell's lives vividly on the page. Passion and anguish, dreams will haunt readers of this series about a woman from East Asia who struggles to find herself with her Western husband and without him. In some of the stories, sex is graphic. All are for adults.

Reading about a couple's love life, an online stranger becomes part of it. Truth under pressure shrinks, expands, convulses. Akemi's girlfriend helps with translation. Short chapters. New episode added almost daily.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. Hiroko translates, with feeling. At a topless bar, with exotic dancing, Peter regales Mitchell and other co-workers with tales of a a butterfly tattoo. Akemi joins them and meets a painter. Short chapters, New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "I chose shots of her body, her side, her shoulders, her back, her thighs, her bush, neck, breasts. The effect, I realized, was that of a Cubist painting. The human body shown from different angles became a whole. The silvery tones of Akemi's soared." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. " She had my penis in her mouth, and was at it with alacrity, a bliss that nearly seemed to match my own, her saliva bright, like our joy itself. We were lying on our sides. If my penis slipped out, if she took a break, I'd patiently help guide it back to her mouth. These were moments to both remember and to savor in the present." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "The way she walks. Well, she just walks. It's her body. The fuzzy white sweater. A wool skirt, dark tights. Very much a college student. A woman. The woman." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.

Reading about a couple's love life, a stranger online becomes part of it. "My eyes found the back of her thighs and didn't want to let go that supple flesh, muscle contracting and releasing as she walked, juddering with her step. I eyed the trim amplitude of her ass, defined then by her bathing suit, right where it drew to its pointed end, a violet V, like crepe, wet-looking even before the swim." Short chapters. New episode added almost every day.