What We Imagined on the Fourteenth Floor
We shared a hallway, an elevator and a coffeemaker, but never a real word. Only what each of us imagined when the other turned away.
We shared a hallway, an elevator and a coffeemaker, but never a real word. Only what each of us imagined when the other turned away.
That witching night, he wasn’t expecting company. But something cold materialized at the foot of his bed and whispered his name as if it knew all death.
In front of the mirror, with the dim light and the music low, I discovered that the best company that night was my own: my hands, my vibrator, and a desire that kept growing.
It took me years to understand what my body was asking for. And once I finally did, there was no going back or settling for less.
Turning off the light would have been the sensible thing. But that night, on the ninth floor of an empty hotel, the last thing I wanted was to go unnoticed.
She said it laughing, almost as a game: that she liked a friend of ours. I never imagined the three of us would end up in the same room.
She came to pose as queen of the underworld. I fired the flash again and again, professional as ever, until she spread her legs and I understood the session was something else.
Three months alone in Singapore for work, a free Saturday, and a masseur who didn’t ask too many questions. That’s how the afternoon I never planned began.
His breathing grew more ragged on the other side of the wall. I tried to ignore it. Then I heard my name in his mouth and everything changed.
She thought she was alone. She raised her phone, framed her body from below, and waited for the timer. I didn’t look away for a second.
My parents were gone. The afternoon was long and the desire unbearable. When the name 'Valeria_sola' appeared on the list, I knew that day would be different.
There are mornings when my body beats my mind to it. Damp sheets, hips moving on their own—and then I invent you: a stranger who breaks me wide open.
For months, he had stared at the dark corner of his bedroom. The wrong doll they sent him was the closest thing to companionship he’d had in years.
When I called him to fix the fireplace, I already knew something was going to happen. My chest told me so every time his eyes lingered on me.
I sat on the floor with her photo and some candles. When I opened my eyes, I was her: her voice, her body, her backstage dressing room.