A married couple seek the consolation of friends while a party rages around them. Mitchell takes a liking to Akemi's friend Satomi and is drunk enough to act on it. She has never particularly liked him and he has steered clear, but with his wife upstairs nursing a cold- and resentments- Mitchell warms to the challenge.

Mitchell thought it didn't matter that his rival at work had gone out with Akemi before they married. What were a few dates? She'd just arrived in the country, been lost then. He'd even concede hard-charging Frank might have helped her. Why worry about the past with a future this good? But the night of the poker game, Mitchell saw he stood to lose more than the beach vacation they'd saved for. Only the present counted, every heartbeat of it.

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.

When you're not looking, not thinking, believe all is right with the world, things happen that you blame yourself for later. "If only I'd paid attention." But maybe none of it was ever in your control. Midori was upstairs, presumably with a cold. If Jens didn't go to her, someone else at the party would.

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.

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.

On the road, Akemi and Frank plant their feet on new earth. Frank leads her and she guides him deeper.

Mitchell wrote "Boom boom" last night. There was a reason.New episode added almost every day.

He talks about his wife to someone he has never seen who has never seen her. New episode added daily.

Dressed up as a cat. Still vibrant. Still young. Good looking as a cat too! The leather skirt and black cowboy shirt became her. She was an artist, knew what worked and what didn't. The light glinted on her legs and on her dark-leathered bottom. She looked as good as anyone in the place. But different. Most other people wore jeans and such. So she felt wrong.

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.

An artist invites Akemi to his studio to look at his graphic novels. Mitchell comes along, sees he's not needed but can't leave. Akemi might like the guy as well as his work, or the guy might use his work as a way to her. Short chapters. New episode added almost daily.