1. Friendship and infidelity, Part 1


    Date: 3/6/2016, Categories: Interracial, Author: SirSpewalot, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    shower, and she didn’t seem disappointed. While we had been lovers from the week we met and cared for each other very much, our relationship had felt off and rote to me for several months, and though our sex was as good as ever, it had started leaving me feeling a bit empty. As we washed off the dried sweat from our run and the other dried fluids we had drenched each other in, I looked down and admired Phyllis’s body, which was flawless, and noticed my admiration was mostly esthetic. My mood passed with dinner—a more commonplace Saturday dinner of chicken and dumplings—and when we sat down to read together in the living room that passed as our study, I felt content. Over the next month and a half we became close friends with Dave and Sandra. We ran into each other the next day and had coffee together again. For the first half-hour Dave and Phyllis made an honest and successful effort to keep all four of us on the same topic, and as Sandra and I had no overriding desire to steer the conversation elsewhere talk eventually drifted to American literature of the 1920s and 1930s. After Dave and Phyllis finished taking out their frustrations on poor Sinclair Lewis’s corpse, Phyllis asked, “Who was that fellow Sloan mentioned? Thorne Smith?” “That sounds right,” Dave answered uncertainly. “Oh, he’s fun!” Sandra interjected. I looked at her in surprise and said, “Yes, yes he is.” Dave and Phyllis looked at us silently for several seconds, then Dave asked, “What did he write?” ...
    “Silly fantasy novels with lots of drinking described in great detail and a fair amount of sex that he only hinted at. Oh, and policeman-beating. He really liked the idea of beating up policemen.” Sandra added, “And whales on dry land. Don’t forget the whales.” “His characters could never forget the whales, so how could we?” “We could if we drank as much as they did.” I looked at Dave and Phyllis and said, “ Topper . That’s his most famous novel. Hard-drinking ghosts, got made into movies and a TV show. My parents loved the show as kids, so they got me the book when I got old enough to drink. Whether that was encouragement or a serious warning, I’m not really sure.” “But The Night Life of the Gods is the best,” Sandra added, “though Rain in the Doorway has its moments.” “Sales ladies in lingerie selling dictionaries of obscenities is great . Two chapters making fun of the Kiwanis is very much not great.” “Was it the Kiwanis? I thought it was the Rotarians.” “It was all of the above and then some.” “God, it must have been awful to live in a country where that crap was funny.” “Yeah, it was so awful even he forgot to be funny about it.” “Well, if I had to sit through a Rotarians meeting for three or four hours, I’d probably think making duck noises and setting beards on fire was funny too.” Dave and Phyllis watched us in a bit of bewilderment as we did our teasing best to bewilder them, and then Phyllis said, “So anyway, Sloan said something about him and Mencken.” Sandra replied, ...
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