One block off of the debauchery of Bourbon Street, the palette of New Orleans ran with different, darker colors. Gaslights danced in the nighttime hush, and the French architecture crowded close, strangely intimate in its constriction.
Not ten minutes before, I had watched a blue-orange flame lick a sugar cube atop my absinthe glass. But I drank the ghostly green mist too quickly. There were not enough people to make it comfortable in the old bar, and eyes from the shadows kept finding their way onto me.
As I walked, an odd notion that I was searching for something threaded through my mind. I was much too aware of my cock as well. I suppose it had been days since I had any release, and my desire had crossed that threshold where the erotic truly began to sing to me. I tried not to think of the slow, luxurious electricity. I fought dreams of surrendering my gasping, secretive places to the slow sensuality of lips and licks that made fists pull at the sheets.
When I thought I heard someone say my name behind me, I first dismissed it as more fantasies. But I did finally glance behind. Read more »