Author Archives: Ali

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“You’re pretty badass,” he said to her. “Are you single? Do you like boys?”

At the renegade kitchen feast on the eve of Beltane, spring’s most decadent pagan fertility rite, a crew of near strangers sat together to share in bacon wrapped succulence on a variation of a dinner theme of spicy. The pre-first … Continue reading →

“You look familiar,” she said to the dark haired boy next to her. “Do you climb?” “Yes,” he said, “I set at the bouldering gym.” “Oh, yeah!” she realized that’s where she’d seen him. “I didn’t recognize you with your … Continue reading →

She sat down on the edge of the bed next to him and rested her head on his shoulder. “I made this for you,” she said, handing him a remnant of her time in the studio that afternoon – a … Continue reading →

After the long evening with mismatched ideas, they left the restaurant’s warm glow for the sky of the waning moon ready to utter the parting words of their meeting. He leaned in for more than a hug, and her lips … Continue reading →

“So I got an email back saying the guy at the t-shop is ‘NOT single’” I said to my friend with the built in single-radar. “All CAPS, and underlined. I was surprised it wasn’t bolded. Or that she didn’t send … Continue reading →

As the little cute one was leaving the fireside chat under the witness of the waxing moon, Orion and the Pleiades, she walked up the stairs to the sidewalk and turned to wave good bye to the host on the … Continue reading →