Lynn Solo III

When it came to meeting “Nice ladies” Trevor, Lynn had almost completely run out of interest. It was clear to her that most men wanted most women to be happy to provide an all-in-one, sex-on-tap, listening and sock-collection service. And it didn’t seem to bother them that in return they weren’t offering much: horrible eating [...]

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Lynn Solo II

Lynn made three new piles: those who were over-confident (too much like David), those who were desperate, and those who were in-between. From the in-between pile, she chose three likely candidates: “Nice ’n cosy” Robert, widower of 63; “country lover” Patrick, a bird-watcher and hiking enthusiastic of 49, and “bookish” Trevor, who wanted “only to [...]

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Lynn Solo

When her marriage ended, Lynn decided that the only way to have sex was solo. There was too short an interval between having sex with a man and picking up his socks. And after seventeen years of picking up the socks of someone who’d treated her as a human mirror in which to view his [...]

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Looking Forwards, and Back

I’ve gone off resolutions. I think they set us up for failure. As I try to live more in the moment, I think resolutions make me spend too much time regretting the past and feeling anxious about the future. However, I do believe in goals, and those are what I have for the new year [...]

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