I Came Back From the Trip and My Boyfriend Already Knew Everything
When I looked at myself in the hotel mirror, mascara smeared and marks on my neck, I knew no lie would be enough when I got home.
Deceit
Deceit stories, page 9
Infidelity Began with a Dance on the Floor
For months I’d let her dance alone, waiting for someone to push far enough. That night, a man taller than me finally did it.
The Stranger on My Terrace and My Wife’s Diary
The lover’s initials weren’t written out in full, but they matched the man smoking on my balcony at that very moment.
I Took My Twin Sister’s Place With Her Boyfriend
We’re identical, she kept telling him while she painted her lips. And it was almost true: only one detail separated the twins, and it was exactly the one Carla had never confessed to her boyfriend.
My wife came back marked and ordered me to kneel
The skirt was torn, her lips swollen, and she smelled like a man who wasn’t me. The worst part wasn’t seeing her like that: it was what she ordered me to do next.
The Night a Trans Girl Changed Me Forever
I had never paid for sex, much less with a trans woman. But that dawn, with the car full of gas and my head full of lust, I took one turn too many.
I Went for My Books and Found Her
I went in with the key he’d left in the planter. What I didn’t expect was to find her waiting for me, arms crossed and jaw clenched.
The 60-Year-Old Woman Who Made Me Forget My Wife
When I bent down to put the box away in the storeroom, Adela turned slowly and let me see the white lace under her blouse. That night I knew the route had changed forever.
What Happened in My Sister-in-Law’s Kitchen That Afternoon
When I went into the kitchen she already had the lasagna in the oven and two glasses poured. I pressed her against the marble before she could set the dish down.
My Wife’s Psychologist and Her Unexpected Therapy
Marina left the phone book open at the letter C. I only meant to talk about my bedroom blockage, but that first session didn’t end the way anyone would imagine.
My Mother-in-Law Waited for Me with Whiskey and a Short Nightgown
I got to her place an hour before my girlfriend. My mother-in-law opened the door in a short robe, a poured whiskey, and a smile that was anything but innocent.
My First Lesbian Time Started as a Favor
I crossed that door convinced women weren’t my thing. I left two hours later knowing that was the biggest lie I’d ever told myself.
My Husband Was Sleeping When a Stranger Jumped the Wall
When I opened the door to breathe the wet air, someone jumped the wall. He was naked, he wouldn’t give me his name, and my husband was still sleeping inside the house, knowing nothing.
Insomnia Brings Me Back to Her Body Every Night
I’ve been sleeping alone for months. But when insomnia hits, I end up with her on top of me again, moaning my name like before everything fell apart.
I Hear Her With Him on the Other Side of the Wall
I switch off the lamp, close my eyes, and let her voice on the other side of the wall set the rhythm of my hand. She’s not mine anymore, but I still come thinking of her.
When My Lover Died, My Boyfriend Stopped Being Himself
For an entire year I lived two lives: the perfect professional beside my partner, and the insatiable lover who returned to the hotel every night. Until the TV announced his death.
My Wife Left Me for My Boss’s Wife
She climbed into the back seat with the boss’s wife thinking she was going to find me. She got out thinking about when she could see her again.
A Year of Cybersex and at Last I Wanted to See His Face
We had spent nearly a year stripping for each other over the camera without knowing who the other was. When I sat down beside him in the café, we both lost our breath.
The Doctor Who Borrowed Bodies to Fuck His Wife
If his cock wouldn’t respond, he’d borrow another man’s. It was enough to look a man in the eye and whisper the right suggestion to get to his wife’s bed.
Three Months of Silence Until the Annual Award Dinner
That night I went down to the studio with the excuse of the copier. In her personal folder there were three files that changed everything I thought I knew about her.