October 2011
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Happiness levels
“Good,” Roz said and put her empty glass down. “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, but I really need to be touched right now.” She reached for the glass in my hand, drained it, and set it next to hers on the coffee table. “I realise I don’t exactly look my best and I’m just a shadow of the woman you had the hots for, but, I don’t know. I just don’t know, Lee.” I had zero desire to sleep...
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Hendricks & Tonic
Roz knocked on the door at five past nine, sank down on the couch next to me, sighed with all the power in her lungs and put her hand on my thigh. “I need a stiff drink,” she said. “What about you?” “I’ll wait until the parents have returned, but please, be my guest. I’ll drink vicariously through you. Get as wasted as you can.” “Let’s be stereotypically British tonight, Lee. Let’s binge until...
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Degrees of heartache
“Thanks a bunch, Lee.” Millie slammed her gym bag on my desk with surprising force. I had not expected her to be able to lift her arms up that high after her first session with Joan. “Who did you shag to get out of that torturous assignment?” “Trade secrets, Millie. They can’t be shared.” “Is she a lezzer then, that Joan? Is she going to come after me and all?” “Depends. Do you want her to?”...
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The Big L
“I didn’t sleep with Joan and I have no intention of doing so. I’m sorry for even considering it.” “Did you lose your job?” “No. Lucy sorted it out−” “Your ex Lucy?” “My boss Lucy.” “But she’s also your ex.” “Well, yeah−” “And what did that cost you?” “Nothing.” “Am I meant to believe that the problem miraculously solved itself?” “That particular one, yes. The one that’s really tearing me up...
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Metaphors and spritzers
Alex and Lou were seated at the bar, their heads huddled closely together, seemingly plotting something ultra-secret. The sight of Lou cramped a considerable amount of muscles in my body, so much so that I stopped walking towards her abruptly as fear spasmed through me. But, as always with fear, I knew how to nip it in the bud before it took over completely, and I was in the perfect place for it...
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Off limits
“Has she said anything?” I asked Alex while we munched lettuce and sun-dried tomatoes. “Anything at all?” “Not a word, Leesbian. You know she has that whole mysterious thing going on. It usually works well for her.” “You need to help me.” “Did you ever think, Lee, all these years ago, when we met at uni and you were this prissy little lesbian, that the day would come that I would live...
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Stakes
I crashed down onto my bed well after midnight, sufficiently hammered to get a few hours of fitful sleep. I didn’t fear tomorrow’s hangover the way Joan, in two short weeks, had taught me, because, just like that, Joan was out of the picture. I could go back to eating pizza for lunch, accompanied by a glass of wine, without worrying how it would affect my work-out. I texted Alex and asked him to...
leighasnotebook asked: wait wait wait wait...hold on... so lemme get this straight.. lee is in love with lou... AND still has feelings for lucy?! holeigh heyll woman... also.. wondering about your books. where can i buy them? only online?
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Comforting thoughts
It was almost eleven when I finally knocked on Lucy’s door, my heart reduced to the size of a shrivelled pea and my ego crushed to absolute nothingness. I had to face her at some point and I preferred to have my melt-down in front of late-night Lucy instead of corporate day-time Lucy. “Lee? What a surprise. I suspected you had forgotten where I lived.” She was dressed in jeans and a faded yellow...
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Choices
“Hello stranger,” Eleanor said. “I was beginning to wonder if you still lived here.” “I’m not going anywhere any time soon. You can be sure of that.” “Oh dear, I recognise that look. You’d better tell me all about it over a bottle of wine.” “I spent a weekend in paradise only to land in the Monday from hell.” “Did my darling niece have anything to do with that by any chance?” “It’s all my own...
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Point of no return
“She wants you to sleep with her? For real?” Roz asked. She couldn’t keep her glasses on, her eyes were too sensitive from, by the look of them, days of crying. It didn’t feel right to lay my own problems out for her when I knew what she was going through, but she had insisted on not cancelling the session − “My clients rely on me. I can’t just take off on holiday.” “Showing up for training...
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The stairmaster
First, she made me run so hard on the treadmill that I couldn’t speak for five minutes afterwards, then she put me on the stairmaster and began her speech. “I don’t know what it is about you, Lee. But I was drawn to you from the beginning.” I was glad I wasn’t able to reply. I also needed to save my breath because I had one more hour to go. “I tried to ignore it at first, be professional about...
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WatchSoundtrack: Unchained Melody - Lykke Li
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On the line
After the staff meeting Lucy summoned me to her office. She’d been uncharacteristically short with everyone, as if she’d had the most catastrophic weekend of her life. Whatever it was this time, I thought, she could hardly blame me. “You’re going to want to close the door for this one, Lee.” I racked and racked my brain to be at least a tiny bit prepared for the storm I saw building in the...
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Misty Blue
“You could have just asked me out,” I said while zipping up my jeans. Lou shot me her meaty smile again. Her lips didn’t open, they just curled into a luscious arch of soft pink flesh. “You could have asked me,” she breathed into my ear. “And what are you closing that for?” She pushed my hand away and lowered my zipper again. “We’re not done yet.” “You made it perfectly clear that you didn’t...
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Stairs
What a disaster, I thought as I re-entered the living room. By then I had fully admitted to myself that romantic scheming was not my forte, but what was it about Katy that always made her come out on top? When would I get the revenge that had been stewing inside me since I left Paris? “I’m sorry, guys,” I said, attempting to convey an apology with a meek smile while racking my brain for a...
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Refined sugars
Whenever I so much as glanced at Lou, desire gushed through me and my anger intensified. I had failed to see what was so special about Katy years ago. She sported a spectacular bunch of wavy curls and her eyes were of the seductive wide and brown variety, but her personality was so vile and manipulative that I couldn’t understand that Lou would even consider setting aside her principles for her....
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leighasnotebook asked: what does lee harlem robinson do to cure a hangover? -besides sleeping.
