There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.

It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.