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“Get the fuck up you piece of shit!” John yelled while kicking me to wake up off the floor.
I grunted and moaned, “Whhyy?”
I slowly started to stand up, when John forcefully grabbed me by the arms and pulled me next to him, and kissed me strongly. I sort of just stood there submissively kissing him back. After a few seconds John pushes me back onto the floor and goes over to their stuff sitting in the corner and says, “It’s time to go, the cops are a couple blocks down, I think someone might of reported us yesterday.”
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I recall living around the NE side of Indy and at that time, I was putting in lots of long hours on my job. I didn't go to bars mainly due to the smoke and all the jerks. So, one night while eating at Hooter's, I came across a local newspaper there called Nuvo. I read through the articles and then found the classifieds. Due to my long working hours, I was all tensed up and I looked through the classifieds for anything...anyone to relieve my stress. Nothing..there was just nothing there that...
“John?” “Yes dear?” “I don’t want you to take this wrong, but I have a problem and I want to take care of it.” We were at the dinner table and I knew – just knew – that what was coming was going to kill my appetite. “We’ve been married twenty-three years and now that the kids are grown and gone I want to do something I’ve wanted to do for years but never have. You know I was a virgin when we married. Well there is this man at work who has been hitting on me and I’ve decided that I want to...
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GayTHIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ANY PERSON(S) LIVING OR DEAD, IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL. THE PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS IN THIS STORY RESIDE AND EXIST, SOLELY IN THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUTHOR. THIS STORY MAY CONTAIN EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF A SEXUAL NATURE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ THIS TYPE OF MATERIAL, YOU SHOULD STOP NOW. IF YOU ARE NOT AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD OR IF IT IS ILLEGAL TO VIEW/READ SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL WHERE YOU ARE, STOP NOW. The...
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Hello! This story is about a hard, passionate husband – a trope that has inspired me many lonely nights. There’s something about the idea of control and authority that husbands have (had) over their wives that makes me a bit weak in the knees. Be aware: This one is a little longer in the preamble and might get expanded with additional chapters in the future – heaven knows I have several more ideas related to Ada and Charles stocked in my brain. Enjoy!Tags: husband&wife, orgasm denial,...
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Angel Allwood is a hot blond MILF determined to teach her teen stepdaughter how to work hard and bring home a paycheck. She brings her petite little ditz of a daughter in to work at her office for dominant Mr. Rob Piper. Angel has been serving Rob Piper on the side as a voracious submission slut for years and promises him that having Zoe working as an intern for the summer won’t reduce office productivity or Rob’s access to her gorgeous ass. Angel is wrong on one count: Zoe is...
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She was standing in a darkened room, stripped bare but for a strict black leather posture collar and a silk blindfold covering her eyes. Her arms were held high in the air, each one tied to the ceiling on opposite sides of the room. Her legs received similar treatment, spread wide with rope attaching each ankle to the walls surrounding her. No room for manoeuvre. As she heard the door close and his footsteps disappear she tested her bonds. First her arms, trying to pull them down, inwards,...
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As we cruised toward town, I found a spot alongside the road and pulled over and shut the truck off. “What are you up to?” Jennifer asked as she looked me in the eye. “I have a question for you and I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, or to be pissed at me. This idea came up last night when I was with Stephanie, and she wanted me to ask you if it might happen.” I asked as I watched her face. “What?” Jenn questioned as she gave me the stare. “Steph and I got talking...
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DEC 1940 BRITAIN BEGINS THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN “Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don’t in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.” ― Erwin Rommel It was the Third Reich that displayed their intent to...
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First of all I want to tell you about me. I am 25 year old. I am living in New Delhi near hauz khas village. I like hot aunties and bhabhi any girls from my childhood. I will tell you later about my sex story during my days in village. I want to tell you heroin of this story is Pooja(changed name ). She was having asset like 36-30-38. She was too hot Story starts here. I am regular visitor of bar in hauz khas village. This was a normal day. I was drinking a beer in bar. I saw a hot lady buying...
Preliminary analysis of the specimens produced a strangely mixed bag of results. The air, as the Argo had found, was quite breathable without respiratory filters; it was considerably more pollen-laden than Earth's—an ecology without significant insect population would naturally rely more heavily on airborne dissemination—but the pollens were completely innocuous to humans. Likewise the water was perfectly drinkable; the natural sediments would simply pass through the human digestive tract...
I had to go and get a few new shirts for work, seeing as I finally got a new job. So instead of going to some lower priced store, instead I went to the mall where I knew they’d have better but a little higher priced shirts. When I started heading for the department store there I saw her, a tall, but slender and shapely woman who had to be several years older then me. My eyes and soon enough my thoughts latched on to her figure as I headed closer and closer to the department store.
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I had fantasized for quite a while about hooking up with a hot chick with a nice cock. I gravitated towards shemale porn and couldn't get enough of it. On this particular day I was having a few drinks and browsing the web for my favorite shemale movies. I discovered the gay.com chat forum. Soon I was chatting with this hot asian crossdresser. She was about my age (21 or so at the time) and lived just a few towns over from me. We shared some fantasies and seemed to have a good connection. She...
The Greatest Lie, Chapter 14 From Prom Night to Homecoming Alexandra Rios [email protected] For me, my hometown, L.A., is not the sexy, sweaty night clubs of West Hollywood nor the porn scene of the North Valley. Though I feel more at home there, that side of L.A. is not my home but rather the world into which my transsexual destiny exiled me. Home is the leafy, moneyed boulevards and side streets of Brentwood and Bel Air, California. Beneath the swaying palms and in the...