The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Belegon]

coffee, coffee, coffee. please... and none of that long detailed litany of flavors and mixes. I'm old school in a few ways and one of them is that I like my coffee black and hot (Yes, I know... It's Lit and the proper way to follow a phrase like that is with wordplay about how that's also how I like my women. But that line is as old school as my caffeine preference.) Besides, I don't really have any strong preferences when it comes to the ladies.
Not when it comes to the physical side of things anyway. I definitely do have tastes on the personality/mental side. Intelligent and playful. Confident and willing to push for what she desires. That's not to say anything negative. I certainly don't mind when a woman has a bit of a submissive spin, although it can cause some hesitation for me simply because my one true requirement has always been for consent. Plus, I'm kinda a pleaser and want to be clued in to want she really wants. Sometimes that desire for full disclosure works against me, especially when what she wants is to be <i>taken</i>. My need to be certain what I'm doing is wanted doesn't mix well with some fantasies and desires.

 

[Duleigh]

The coffee's on and my valentines day story is reaching the end of the introduction!
Oh man... it's going to be one of those stories. I need to get a shorter muse

 

[NotWise]

Sometimes that desire for full disclosure works against me, especially when what she wants is to be <i>taken</i>. My need to be certain what I'm doing is wanted doesn't mix well with some fantasies and desires.

This is an issue in my WIP. The woman admits in pillow talk that she sometimes fantasizes about having no choice, and he (being a pleaser) needs to find a way to make it happen. The scene is on its second rewrite, but it's fairly important because some elements are reprised in the climax of the story.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My cat, Cat, busted my headphones last night. She jumped off my computer desk, but her feet were tangled in the cord. The ones won't be here until tomorrow at some point. Oh, bother, I'll have to use my speakers. Fresh coffee is brewed, French roast this time. I have plenty in the digital pot!

 

[dmallord]

Now that @dmallord can hear the coffee being poured, I'll have to check more frequently to make sure there's a pot of coffee available. The teapot is hot and today we have a variety of petit fours on the counter for those who need a sugar hit.

Now that the holidays are over, I can try to get back to writing more than a paragraph at a time. I'll be over in the corner trying to put words to electronic paper and keeping an eye on the coffee pot ...

Electronic paper, that's a nice turn of words. Thanks for the fresh pot. Occasionally, I do a cuppa tea, but I don't tell Juan Valdez that!

 

[HandleyPage]

it worked.
and very pleasant it was, too

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Great to see you back, HP. Hope you had a decent holiday season.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Making one last check on the coffee pot before heading to bed. Looks like someone made some monkey bread and put it on the counter.

The book covers for my series finally posted today.

 

[Duleigh]

it worked.
and very pleasant it was, too

It's good to see you HP!!!

 

[Belegon]

Well, I've started a new story. First in several years. Right now it's about three pages in and we'll have to wait and see what category it ends up in, though early indications seem to pointing towards Romance. Not a Lit category I have ever posted in, despite the fact that I have several published works that fit there and I've attended conventions as a "Romance Author." Imp and I hit the Romantic Times Book Lovers convention like four years in a row, doing signings and panels and meeting some great people.

The new story is, oddly enough, a sequel to the first story I ever put up on Lit. I'm revisiting these characters twenty years after the last time I wrote them and it's going to be interesting to see how it goes. I think I've got the male lead's "voice" still working, but the female lead may create issues. The male lead is close enough to my own actual history that it hasn't been hard to re-enter that head space.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

The coffee pot is brewing and the teapot is hot. There are some raspberry danish on the counter. Thanks to everyone who helped put the Christmas decorations away. The hardest part was capturing all of those birds flying around and I thank the person with the big net for helping getting them caged up and sent back to their owners.

Finally got my driveway opened up, thanks to my neighbor with his huge truck breaking a path through the snow.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Morning all, how's stuff in the Literotica world? Coffee is ready, Irish Cream -cream and actual whiskey. But, it is labeled Irish Cream, so I'm sticking to it.