<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159</id><updated>2012-02-11T12:06:41.699-08:00</updated><category term='Roo'/><category term='Lou'/><category term='Rolf'/><category term='An Evening by the Fire'/><category term='Inspired by The Message'/><category term='Carol'/><category term='Chillax'/><category term='Skinny Dipping'/><category term='Elizabeth Marshal'/><category term='PJ'/><category term='Mel'/><category term='Lady Jodie'/><category term='Summer Rainstorms'/><category term='Autumn'/><category term='LS'/><category term='Breakfast in Bed'/><category term='Julie'/><category term='Myst'/><category term='autumn challenge'/><category term='Baths'/><category term='Dash'/><category term='Picnic'/><category term='Pride'/><category term='Jo'/><category term='taxes'/><category term='tarabeth'/><category term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category term='Dee'/><category term='Nelson'/><category term='Ice Cream'/><category term='Chris Dangerfield'/><category term='Dice'/><category term='Jay'/><category term='Adele'/><category term='Natasha'/><category term='Cat'/><category term='traffic'/><category term='Laughter and Tears'/><category term='Dizzy'/><category term='Business Trip'/><category term='Leather'/><category term='Healthy Living'/><category term='Oktoberfest'/><title type='text'>The Tea Room Annex</title><subtitle type='html'>This page contains adult short fiction about people in domestic discipline relationships.  These challenge drabbles and short stories are for readers who are 21 and over.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>167</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-860424732302630401</id><published>2012-02-11T01:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T01:34:53.493-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Although I Did Not Know You</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;This was written as a tribute to the life of Canadian artist Steve Walker (1961-2012)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mEJPF0sMQIw/TzY1VTamMHI/AAAAAAAAC_s/DWz_Q0-2DRk/s1600/solitary_man-755x567.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mEJPF0sMQIw/TzY1VTamMHI/AAAAAAAAC_s/DWz_Q0-2DRk/s400/solitary_man-755x567.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Although I Did Not Know You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Although I did not know you, I feel I owe you a tribute.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Although I did not know you, I have come to the edge of the world to wish you goodbye.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Although I did not know you, I cry with thousands of others over your death.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Although I did not know you, I mourn your passing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Thank you for the beauty, hope, and love that your art shows to the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Thank you for sharing your talent.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Thank you for the joy I feel while viewing your work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Thank you for expressing our love in such a magnificent way.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-860424732302630401?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mEJPF0sMQIw/TzY1VTamMHI/AAAAAAAAC_s/DWz_Q0-2DRk/s72-c/solitary_man-755x567.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4615833155021355145</id><published>2012-02-10T21:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T12:06:41.727-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve Walker 1961 - 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;Steve Walker 1961 - 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pQ_SsjlE5tY/TzX4U7WOJII/AAAAAAAAC_k/miXGzuWeOjo/s1600/david_and_me-594x793.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pQ_SsjlE5tY/TzX4U7WOJII/AAAAAAAAC_k/miXGzuWeOjo/s400/david_and_me-594x793.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://stevewalkerartist.com/menupage.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;David and Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;The very talented and wonderful artist Steve Walker's work has inspired so many passed away recently.  He once wrote: "I hope that in its silence, the body of my work has given a voice to my life, the lives of others, and in doing so, the dignity of all people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following were written in tribute to him:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://melandme-lj.blogspot.com/2012/02/flying-high.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Flying High&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Mel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rowananddarby.blogspot.com/2012/02/hands.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Lady Jodie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-silence.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Language of Silence&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/2012/02/home-with-you.html"&gt;Home with You&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lou-wl.blogspot.com/2012/02/revelations.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Revelations&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Lou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-randy.blogspot.com/2012/02/memory.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loss&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Randy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjpages-wl.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-heart.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;My Heart&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rainepages.blogspot.com/2012/02/blue.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Blue&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Raine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2012/02/drabbles-inspired-by-steve-walker.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Going Out and Late Night&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Natasha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/although-i-did-not-know-you.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/although-i-did-not-know-you.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Although I Did Not Know You &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4615833155021355145?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4615833155021355145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/steve-walker-1961-2012.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4615833155021355145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4615833155021355145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/steve-walker-1961-2012.html' title='Steve Walker 1961 - 2012'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pQ_SsjlE5tY/TzX4U7WOJII/AAAAAAAAC_k/miXGzuWeOjo/s72-c/david_and_me-594x793.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-9028976117771243229</id><published>2011-11-30T21:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T12:51:27.713-08:00</updated><title type='text'>2011 Christmas Challenge Stories</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;December 2011 Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Write a Drabble or Story&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;inspired by one of the many&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tbsholidayprompts.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Tea Room Holiday Prompts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=dashing&amp;amp;sub=holiday"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="307" src="http://images.breyette.com/pleasedontsteal/gallery/dashing.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ttrhsc.blogspot.com/2011/12/caribbean-capers.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Caribbean Capers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt; by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://glentj.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-customs-old-and-new.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Christmas Customs, Old and New&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lady Jodie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deesdrabblesetc.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-song.html" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;The Christmas Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Dee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ttrhsc.blogspot.com/2011/12/gift-of-monkey.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;The Gift of the Monkey&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/12/home-for-christmas.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Home for Christmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjpages-wl.blogspot.com/2011/12/reflections-of-love.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Reflections of Love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ttrhsc.blogspot.com/2011/11/secret-santa.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Secret Santa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeremiahmicah.blogspot.com/2011/12/see-he-is-real.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;See He is Real&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;by Lady Jodie, Dizzy and PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-9028976117771243229?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/9028976117771243229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-christmas-challenge-stories.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9028976117771243229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9028976117771243229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-christmas-challenge-stories.html' title='2011 Christmas Challenge Stories'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3914168529595992416</id><published>2011-11-20T17:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T17:22:58.455-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;If I Had A Paddle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;~ Famous Top &amp;amp; Brat folk-song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;(sung to the tune of “If I Had A Hammer by Peter, Paul &amp;amp; Mary)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;If I had a paddle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would paddle in the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would paddle in the evening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this Land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would paddle out danger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would paddle out warning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would paddle out the love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Between a Top and Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;If I had some soap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would soap him in the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would soap him in the evening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would soap out cussing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would soap out swearing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would soap for respect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Between a Top and Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;If I had a husband&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would love him in the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would love him in the evening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would keep him out of danger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would keep his backside heated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I would sing out the love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Between me and my man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;I have a paddle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;And I have the soap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;And I have a giant love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Just for this man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;It's the paddle of justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;It's the soap of respect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;And a love to sing about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;For my Husband and Family&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;All over this land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3914168529595992416?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3914168529595992416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/if-i-had-paddle-famous-top-brat-folk.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3914168529595992416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3914168529595992416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/if-i-had-paddle-famous-top-brat-folk.html' title=''/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2737111031930660585</id><published>2011-11-20T17:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T17:17:46.760-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;To Brat Or Not To Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;To Brat, or not to Brat: that is the question:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;The slings and arrows of outrageous Tops?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Or to take arms against suspicious minds,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;And by opposing end them? To do lines? To be spanked?;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;No more; and by not-spanked to say we end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;the butt-ache and the thousand unnatural pains&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;that Tops do commit us to, 'tis a consummation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;devoutly to be wished. Methinks? To Brat, to play;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;To have fun: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;For in that joy of the Brat, what dreams may come...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;~ With apologies to THE brat, W.S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2737111031930660585?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2737111031930660585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-brat-or-not-to-brat-by-chris.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2737111031930660585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2737111031930660585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-brat-or-not-to-brat-by-chris.html' title=''/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7890774342759968506</id><published>2011-11-03T16:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T16:02:14.630-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Evening by the Fire'/><title type='text'>The Doctor and His Brat</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the November 2011 Tea Room An Evening by the Fire Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Doctor and His Brat&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Carol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;It was cold, and I was dog tired. It'd been a busy day at the clinic I.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;Why is it everyone and their brother wait until Friday afternoon to be seen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;when they're sick? And the bad thing was I'd promised my boy I would take him to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;his favorite Italian restaurant to celebrate his excellent grades this&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;quarter. Now, it was so late there was no way we could go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;When I arrived home the house was dark, except for a &amp;nbsp;flicker of light I could see through&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;the curtains. Locking my car, I trudged toward the house. Now don't get me&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;wrong, I'm very excited to see my brat after a long day at work, I just didn't&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;want to hear the complaining tonight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;I entered the house to find it was lit only by the flicker of the fire place.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;The house was warm and cozy. In front of the fire place was our queen size air&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;mattress. I felt his soft lips on my neck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;My boy's voice was behind&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;me as his arms came around and undid my belt. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;"The powers out. Here let me help you out of these." &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;He stepped around me, his mouth met mine, we kissed as he undid the buttons on my pants.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;His mouth found my nipples, he left butterfly kisses across my chest to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;next nipple. He moved down my body and then removed my pants. My hard cock popped&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;out just as soon as the pants were off my hips. My boy took me into his mouth&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;and brought me to a fast and hard climax in moments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;He took me by my hand and pulled me onto the mattress with him. My mouth found&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;his.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Our tongues danced for a few minutes. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;I could taste myself on his tongue. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;was hard again, and I eagerly tried to get him to open his legs, so I could&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;enter him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;"Not ready," he said, pushing me off him. "Lay down," he ordered. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;I gave him a look.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Please?" he asked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;I did what he wanted. He straddled my butt and I felt warm oil run being poured&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;onto my back. I purred when he started to massage my shoulders. As he worked his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;way down, I could feel his hard cock press against my ass.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;"Um, babe." I mumbled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;"I know. I won't," &amp;nbsp;he told me as he moved down my leg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;He took a warm towel and removed the excess oil, and then patted my hip.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;"Roll over," he whispered. This time he rubbed my legs and worked his way up&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;to my belly. I gasped as he massaged my balls, and then his thumbs flicked across my&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;nipples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;I quivered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;He spun around so his back was to me. `This was new', I thought as he straddled&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;my cock. I watched as he lowered himself, his hand slipping down to oil my hard&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;cock. &amp;nbsp;I heard the sharp intake of breath when it passed the tight ring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;When he was ready he laid back, his back on my chest, he moved a little, then&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;again, this time his body trembled, and I knew he'd found the right spot. He took&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;my hands and placed them on his hips. His mouth was close to my ear. "Now I'm&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;ready." he said, sucking my earlobe into his mouth and began to move.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7890774342759968506?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7890774342759968506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/written-for-november-2011-tea-room.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7890774342759968506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7890774342759968506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/written-for-november-2011-tea-room.html' title='The Doctor and His Brat'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-712876333082717466</id><published>2011-10-16T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T21:45:03.389-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><title type='text'>Hands of a Top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Hands of a Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Laying with my head on Docs chest, I could hear his heart beat, his breathing, the gurgle sounds his body makes. His one arm wrapped firmly around my waist to keep me safe. While his other hand gently played with my hair. I pulled it down to my face, gave it a kiss, it was still warm. I just looked at it, traced the lines in the palm of his soft hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sometimes they're so soft and loving, but then again they're so damn hard and mean, why?" I said out of the blue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Depends on what you need at the time, my boy." I felt him kiss the top of my head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-712876333082717466?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/712876333082717466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/hands-of-top.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/712876333082717466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/712876333082717466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/hands-of-top.html' title='Hands of a Top'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-555909253980990348</id><published>2011-10-16T16:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:52:52.819-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>His Hands</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;His Hands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;His hands read my body as accurately as his fingers read Braille. He loves to undress me, slowly pushing my shirt up my chest and over my head. He runs the pads of his finger tips across my tight nipples. His hands memorize the dips and creases of my stomach and chest. His hands are sure and certain as they unbutton and unzip my pants. The strength in his hands as they grip my hips and pulls me forward for a kiss excite me even more. Sight is not missed here in our bedroom as I glory in his hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;On to &lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/those-hands.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Those Hands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-555909253980990348?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/555909253980990348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/his-hands.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/555909253980990348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/555909253980990348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/his-hands.html' title='His Hands'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8540053465999621092</id><published>2011-10-16T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:51:50.683-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Those Hands</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Here's a companion piece to &lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/his-hands.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;His Hands&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  William's thoughts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Those Hands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He stands still, giving me the chance to explore all the textures of his body. The softness of his hair; the bristle of stubble, the sinewy muscles in his neck and his shoulders, my hands slide down his body. The hard muscle in his biceps, the coarse hair on his forearms, down to his hands. Aww, those hands. Calluses on the palm, long fingers, and blunt cut fingernails. Those hands can rain down in a flurry of spanks, perversely giving me pain and comfort. Those hands bring me to heights of pleasure as they in turn explore my own body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-8540053465999621092?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/8540053465999621092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/those-hands.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8540053465999621092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8540053465999621092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/those-hands.html' title='Those Hands'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1838988910543019779</id><published>2011-10-16T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:42:10.492-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julie'/><title type='text'>For Taking Off</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;For Taking Off&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Julie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, I think you should buy those dark blue ones."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Really? You don't think they're a bit, well, suggestive?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They are perfect."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Okay, then maybe I'll wear them when we go out tonight."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hell no, you aren't going anywhere in those pants."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"But, you just said that I should buy them."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, but they aren't for going out. These are for taking off. Slowly."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1838988910543019779?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1838988910543019779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-taking-off.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1838988910543019779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1838988910543019779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-taking-off.html' title='For Taking Off'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3102330279041201839</id><published>2011-10-16T16:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:38:25.428-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'>Fall Colors</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Okay seasonal madness overtook me...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Fall Colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax season getaway coming and such needed timing. Traffic would be okay and the trees lining winding roads a symphony of color. Still some lime, also yellows, light oranges tinting into deep oranges and spectacular reds. My favorites. Don't laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My hand snapped downward. I was paying attention. Too much for him. He loudly let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm SORRRY. You said rake the leaves this morning and today means today. I'm SOORRRY..."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Almost... a few more strokes and my hand came to rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can my smile be loving AND satisfied? Sorry, but my favorite fall color was right before me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3102330279041201839?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3102330279041201839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-colors.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3102330279041201839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3102330279041201839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-colors.html' title='Fall Colors'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5376052352151916973</id><published>2011-10-06T20:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T17:28:48.599-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'>Drabbles by Chris Dangerfield</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=closertogod&amp;amp;sub=couples&amp;amp;page=all"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://images.breyette.com/pleasedontsteal/gallery/closertogod.jpg" width="315" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfest-blues.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Oktoberfest Blues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oh-yesplease.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Oh Yes...Please&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-my-thing.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Not My Thing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-colors.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Fall Colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-brat-or-not-to-brat-by-chris.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;To Brat or Not to Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/if-i-had-paddle-famous-top-brat-folk.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;If I had a Paddle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;~*~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the Tea Room An Evening by the Fire Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/2011/11/fireside-chat-with-monkey.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;A Fireside Chat with Monkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/2011/10/better-choices.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Better Choices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-better-choice.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Another Better Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;More Stories at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chris' Creations&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5376052352151916973?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5376052352151916973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/drabbles-by-chris-dangerfield.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5376052352151916973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5376052352151916973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/drabbles-by-chris-dangerfield.html' title='Drabbles by Chris Dangerfield'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3300788737145313924</id><published>2011-10-06T20:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T20:11:12.190-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oktoberfest'/><title type='text'>Oktoberfest Blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oktoberfest-zeitung.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/oktoberfestbiere-e1285608749151.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://www.oktoberfest-zeitung.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/oktoberfestbiere-e1285608749151.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oktoberfest Blues&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Jessie, 2011 brews only come ONCE!  Spaten Marzen from Germany, crisp, balanced, excellent head, natural amber, rich malts..."  Grinning, Todd danced madly around me waving brochures.  My adorable beer-obsessed Monkey.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Nope."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"It's 2011 Oktoberfest Champion!"  Again the bouncing flyer.  "There's Hacker Pschorr Original.  5.80% alcohol-by-volume.  ABV."  He proudly added the acronym like it mattered.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"No!"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Paulaner Marzen, Slyfox Lager, Ayinger Marzen..."  Brat sounding desperate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Babe.  STOP.  You're still on antibiotics.  Fine.  Here's the deal, 10 &lt;br /&gt;swats... per *sip*."  I nodded thoughtfully.  "That seems quite healthy." He frowned.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"2012... fiiine, GOT IT!"  I hugged my smart grumpy Monkey, hard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3300788737145313924?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3300788737145313924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfest-blues.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3300788737145313924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3300788737145313924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfest-blues.html' title='Oktoberfest Blues'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8559864516228144729</id><published>2011-10-06T20:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T20:04:25.665-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'>Oh Yes...Please</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh Yes...Please&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Scanning the room and deeply bored, I felt him press up firmly behind me. I didn't have to turn. His smell is perfect. Being in crisp suits, surrounded by his employers, their bejeweled wives and on our best behavior, did not stop him from pressing discreetly against me. Key and Lock. Ying and Yang. Top and Bottom. Front to... backside. How in a crowded ballroom and still, only him, in this universe?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;His pressure re-awakened the heated glow he'd created earlier. I smiled a secret, trying for nonchalant. He panther purred, breath tickling my ear.&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;"Home soon?"&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;Oh yes...please.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-8559864516228144729?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/8559864516228144729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oh-yesplease.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8559864516228144729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8559864516228144729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oh-yesplease.html' title='Oh Yes...Please'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4045016596794960834</id><published>2011-10-05T17:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T17:13:46.159-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>I Cry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I Cry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"No! I don't want to," I shout.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"You need to." I squirm as he slaps his hand down. "With all you've gone through this year, you've lost so much," he says, and lands another swat on my bared butt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"No, I'm NOT weak. I am the strong one."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"No one would ever call you weak. Yes, you are the strong one. Do it," another heavy swat lands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"I can't," I whisper, my voice breaking. "I'll shatter into a million pieces."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"No you won't. I'll hold you together with my love."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;And with his promise, I finally do it. I cry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4045016596794960834?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4045016596794960834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-cry.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4045016596794960834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4045016596794960834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-cry.html' title='I Cry'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3011725870437134893</id><published>2011-10-05T16:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T16:30:29.754-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oktoberfest'/><title type='text'>Anything for a Beer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room's October 2011 Octoberfest Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-skalyP4WVx4/Tozodt_5dII/AAAAAAAAC7I/qBq8CG8xlwk/s1600/oktoberfest_bild.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-skalyP4WVx4/Tozodt_5dII/AAAAAAAAC7I/qBq8CG8xlwk/s320/oktoberfest_bild.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Anything for a Beer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No! Chase, I'm not going," William said loudly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Come on, William.  It'll be fun."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For you maybe, but not for me.  I hate those kinds of things.  They are so crowded, I end up hitting people with my cane," William tried to explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Then go sighted guide," was Chase's solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I don't want to go sighted guide.  I don't want to go at all," William snarled, then apologized when Reed said his name in that "I've had enough" tone that Reed had perfected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"William," Jason called out. "It's Oktoberfest. There will be beer and Bratwurst there."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Beer? Ok, I'll go."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3011725870437134893?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3011725870437134893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/written-for-tea-rooms-october-2011.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3011725870437134893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3011725870437134893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/written-for-tea-rooms-october-2011.html' title='Anything for a Beer'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-skalyP4WVx4/Tozodt_5dII/AAAAAAAAC7I/qBq8CG8xlwk/s72-c/oktoberfest_bild.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6670850612673230971</id><published>2011-10-05T16:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T16:22:26.887-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oktoberfest'/><title type='text'>Oktoberfeast</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room October 2011 Octoberfest Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Oktoberfeast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"So how much did you eat?" I asked my poor brat as I held up a tablespoon of Pepto-Bismol. He winkled his nose at me, but opened his mouth, swallowing the pink liquid he grabbed the glass of water I handed to him and drank it down. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"Won the Bratwurst eating contest." He showed me a blue ribbon for first place then he started to pull white paper out of his jeans pocket and counted them out, "Twenty-five pretzels...four sodas...," he told as I help him to bed. "Two cotton candies, three Carmel apples, a couple of funnels cakes, a few corn dogs."  He laid back, snuggling down into the warm blankets. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"I know Brett snuck you beer," I told him.  He gave me a sheepish smile and held up two fingers. "Rest my love," I told him as I pulled the blanket and tucked him in.  I kissed his forehead and turn to leave. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"Doc," He whispered as I got to the door.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"What Brat?" I asked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"What's for dinner?" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-6670850612673230971?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/6670850612673230971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfeast.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6670850612673230971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6670850612673230971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfeast.html' title='Oktoberfeast'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8658223993479515897</id><published>2011-10-05T16:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T16:11:45.969-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><title type='text'>You</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;You&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Carol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;I felt something lightly touch my leg, the soft feeling moved up, and circled my navel and then lightly brushed my groin. Soft fingers gently touched my flaccid cock, which soon became awake and aroused. I heard a soft giggle as soft moist lips touched my nipple, gently taking it into the owners mouth, the tip of a tongue lightly touches it making my body shiver with delight, all while fingers move up and down my naked body. A body pressed hard against mine as a hard cock rubbed against my thigh. Fingers gently played with my lips, I kissed them as they passed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Brat what do you want?" I asked with lust as he straddled my body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"You" He answered his mouth meeting mine I wrapped my arms around him, rolling over to trap his body under mine, his legs came around my waist, I guided my hard dripping cock into his slick opening and pushed. "Oh yes," He gasped. Our mouths met once again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-8658223993479515897?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/8658223993479515897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/you.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8658223993479515897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8658223993479515897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/you.html' title='You'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-762661344044100973</id><published>2011-10-05T16:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:43:31.192-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julie'/><title type='text'>Drabbles by Julie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-was-sparked-by-story-i-read-by.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;SAVORED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/delicious-and-necessary-by-julie-get.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Delicious and Necessary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-taking-off.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;For Taking Off&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-762661344044100973?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/762661344044100973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/drabbles-by-julie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/762661344044100973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/762661344044100973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/drabbles-by-julie.html' title='Drabbles by Julie'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4323555926059238850</id><published>2011-10-05T16:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T16:05:20.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julie'/><title type='text'>SAVORED</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;his was sparked by a story I read by Cobweb.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;SAVORED&lt;br /&gt; by Julie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I'm warm but I shiver standing naked in the light.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I only see the red tip of his cigar as he sits silently in the dark.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I don't get it, and I am embarrassed and impatient.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"You're allowed to touch, you know," I say as a feeble joke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;He knows, I gave him myself body and soul some time ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"Love, you don't gulp a glass of fine wine; you don't glance at a Picasso. Anything fine is meant to be enjoyed slowly."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Oh…. I stand a little straighter. "Well then, take your time."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4323555926059238850?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4323555926059238850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-was-sparked-by-story-i-read-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4323555926059238850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4323555926059238850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-was-sparked-by-story-i-read-by.html' title='SAVORED'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4125257828870528562</id><published>2011-10-03T00:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-03T00:09:53.314-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Julie'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Delicious and Necessary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Julie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Get your clothes off big guy!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hmmm... and I thought I made the directives around here."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, isn't that what you want to say to me?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No, in fact, I want you dressed in layers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Don't you want me?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Want you? My boy, I desire you so that the un-veiling of you is both delicious and necessary."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4125257828870528562?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4125257828870528562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/delicious-and-necessary-by-julie-get.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4125257828870528562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4125257828870528562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/delicious-and-necessary-by-julie-get.html' title=''/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4390483693077212571</id><published>2011-10-01T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-03T00:10:15.891-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chris Dangerfield'/><title type='text'>Not My Thing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Not My Thing" (A Gay Roommate's Lament)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I want to borrow your convertible for my date with HERRRR," she purred. He&amp;nbsp;frowned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"NO. You getting it all girly is Not My Thing." She just smiled knowingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Moissst well of love. Juicccy mound of joy." She crooned. He shook his head&amp;nbsp;firmly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Wont. Work. NOT My Thing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Luscious labial lips. A vaginal canal with delicate clitoral..." Fingers jam&amp;nbsp;into his ears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Lalalalalalanotlistening. SOOOOO Not My Thing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As my tongue slips deeeep into..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Auuugghhh. STOP. Take the car evil woman. You SO need to be SPANKED!" She&amp;nbsp;hugged him, smiling widely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Of course, love... That Is EXACTLY My Thing."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4390483693077212571?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4390483693077212571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-my-thing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4390483693077212571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4390483693077212571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-my-thing.html' title='Not My Thing'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6899993068215838679</id><published>2011-09-21T21:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T21:25:31.137-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jo'/><title type='text'>Leathers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the September 2011 Tea Room Leather Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Leathers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Jo and Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;This little story takes place right after Jack allowed Jay to have his motorcycle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Jay wore a pair of leather chaps, and a silver snake skin pouch over his genitals; the only thing that covered his ass was a fishnet type garment; his leather vest hung open. "I don't know what the bitching is about; you're the one who said I had to wear my leathers when I ride; you never said I had to wear jeans under them," Jay said, as he slid past his irate lover, keeping his barely covered ass away from him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"I didn't think I needed to state the obvious," Jack replied evenly. His eyes glinted with laughter, as he said, "Do I need to point out that being dressed like that is going to chafe things you don't want chafed?"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Jay gave his lover a confused look, then made the `o' shape with his mouth, as if he finally got what Jack meant. "That's ok, my sweets; if I chafe, you can rub the cream on those areas," he told him, as he caressed his pouch-covered genitals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Check under the bed, sweetheart," Jack replied. He smiled when he heard Jay's yelp of surprise. The leather pants he'd bought his lover had been expensive, but when he laid eyes on him on them, Jay's planned ride was abruptly cancelled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-6899993068215838679?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/6899993068215838679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leathers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6899993068215838679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6899993068215838679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leathers.html' title='Leathers'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-268503055286429773</id><published>2011-09-21T21:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T21:21:16.454-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leather'/><title type='text'>Leather</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the September 2011 Tea Room Leather Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Leather&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"What's this?" Dillon asked, holding something. I stopped what I was doing to look at it.&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;"It's the leather apron that my great-grand dad used when he made horse shoes, or when he shod a horse.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;"What about this?" he asked. `How am I supposed to box stuff for an antique sale if he keeps stopping me?' I thought, as I looked up, puzzled at what he held.&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;"A harness, I think," I told him, going over toward him for a better look.&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;"Too small," he said, as he examined it at eye level. I took it from him, and turned it this way and that way. It's made of soft calf leather . . . one long strip, with three small strips . . . one on each end and one in the middle; little buckles were on the end of them, with fine delicate gold stitching and the word MINE stamped on the main strip. Dillon's gaze was on me, as I glanced back at him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;Ewwwwwwwwww, gross, I'm not touching that," he stated, going back to his box.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;I smiled to myself, `Oh yes you will.' I thought, and shoved it in my pocket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-268503055286429773?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/268503055286429773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leather.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/268503055286429773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/268503055286429773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leather.html' title='Leather'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6471585454732500283</id><published>2011-09-19T23:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T23:08:31.045-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Lesson learned</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the September 2011 Tea Room Leather Challenge&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lesson learned&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;by PJ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"No!" Wes snapped. "I left it on the porch and now it's gone!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Link turned his frustrated lover to face him. "Wesley, calm down now!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"I have to find it."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Link pulled Wes back out to the porch. "Where did you leave it, babe?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Wes pointed next to the swing. "I dropped it there and now it's gone!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Link pulled Wes down to look under the swing. "Look, sweetheart." Link chuckled while Wes shook his head, leaning against his man. Two little eyes sporting a black mask were peeking out from one of the leather pouches of Wes`s tool bag.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-6471585454732500283?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/6471585454732500283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/written-for-september-2011-tea-room.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6471585454732500283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6471585454732500283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/written-for-september-2011-tea-room.html' title='Lesson learned'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2825738812911375823</id><published>2011-09-10T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T15:48:30.717-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rolf'/><title type='text'>Ode to the Red Phone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_344/122936100328tvxS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263" src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_344/122936100328tvxS.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Ode to the Red Phone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Rolf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;It sits there quietly, looking harmless as can be. Glowing brightly, a lovely shade of red made deeper by the waning rays of the evening sun. Certainly it can't do me any harm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except when it rings, which it seems to quite frequently these days. It requires a response – hiding it isn't one of the acceptable ones. But to answer it requires that I swallow the lump in my throat so I can talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therein lies the problem. A top on the line, demanding answers to questions I'd rather not be asked. The color isn't random, it's a strong warning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2825738812911375823?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2825738812911375823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/ode-to-red-phone.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2825738812911375823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2825738812911375823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/ode-to-red-phone.html' title='Ode to the Red Phone'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1709824354521873936</id><published>2011-09-07T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T21:21:09.793-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Business Trip'/><title type='text'>January 2012 - Business Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=businesstrip&amp;amp;sub=all&amp;amp;page=all"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="245" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2N-xzjOEBiE/TmhIn3Fz9zI/AAAAAAAAC6E/a1emrDeLt8g/s400/businesstrip+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=businesstrip&amp;amp;sub=all&amp;amp;page=all"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Business Trip&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Michael Breyette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-randy.blogspot.com/2012/01/business-trip.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Business Trip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Randy Williams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2012/01/packing.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Packing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://rainepages.blogspot.com/2012/01/reactions.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Reactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Raine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1709824354521873936?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1709824354521873936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/january-2012-business-trip.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1709824354521873936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1709824354521873936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/january-2012-business-trip.html' title='January 2012 - Business Trip'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2N-xzjOEBiE/TmhIn3Fz9zI/AAAAAAAAC6E/a1emrDeLt8g/s72-c/businesstrip+%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1714891595245051119</id><published>2011-09-07T15:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T17:06:02.630-08:00</updated><title type='text'>December 2011 - Holiday Prompts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;December 2011 Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Write a Drabble or Story&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;inspired by one of the many&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tbsholidayprompts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tea Room Holiday Prompts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=dashing&amp;amp;sub=holiday"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="307" src="http://images.breyette.com/pleasedontsteal/gallery/dashing.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1714891595245051119?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1714891595245051119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/december-2011-holiday-prompts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1714891595245051119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1714891595245051119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/december-2011-holiday-prompts.html' title='December 2011 - Holiday Prompts'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2650299953212782588</id><published>2011-09-07T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T16:56:45.917-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='An Evening by the Fire'/><title type='text'>November 2011 - Evening by the Fire</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;November 2011 Tea Room Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Write a Drabble or Story about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An Evening by the Fire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #640064; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/02/numbers/bedroom-with-fireplace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/02/numbers/bedroom-with-fireplace.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://wl-authors-chris.blogspot.com/2011/11/fireside-chat-with-monkey.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;A Fireside Chat with Monkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/10/night-by-fire.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;A Night by the Fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/written-for-november-2011-tea-room.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;The Doctor and His Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjpages-wl.blogspot.com/2011/11/fire-and-water.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Fire and Water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2650299953212782588?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2650299953212782588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/november-2011-evening-by-fire.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2650299953212782588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2650299953212782588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/november-2011-evening-by-fire.html' title='November 2011 - Evening by the Fire'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6543727969282587701</id><published>2011-09-07T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T16:40:13.968-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oktoberfest'/><title type='text'>October 2011 - Oktoberfest</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"&gt;Beer, Bratwurst, and Brats&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"&gt;October 2011 Oktoberfest Tea Room Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.destination-munich.com/images/munich-oktoberfest-gay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="244" src="http://www.destination-munich.com/images/munich-oktoberfest-gay.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/written-for-tea-rooms-october-2011.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Anything for a Beer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/oktoberfeast.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oktoberfeast&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-6543727969282587701?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/6543727969282587701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/october-2011-oktoberfest.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6543727969282587701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6543727969282587701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/october-2011-oktoberfest.html' title='October 2011 - Oktoberfest'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4385047189502886501</id><published>2011-09-07T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T14:40:27.525-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summer Rainstorms'/><title type='text'>Summer Storms</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://redcrossggr.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thunderstorm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://redcrossggr.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thunderstorm.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Summer Storms&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Carol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The thunder rumbled loudly as the lighting lit up the dark sky. Summer storms are a normal thing for our state. I jumped when the thunder clapped and the lighting lit up the sky again, the lights flickered off then on. I hate storms, always have, always will. I felt arms around my waist. I was pulled back into a strong loving hold. I felt his body rock this way and back taking me with him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;There there my love, I'll protect you from the big bad storm." Dillon said as his soft lips touched my cheek.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4385047189502886501?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4385047189502886501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-storms.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4385047189502886501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4385047189502886501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-storms.html' title='Summer Storms'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5842246704695586170</id><published>2011-09-06T19:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T19:34:43.224-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dee'/><title type='text'>Drabbles by Dee</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-wrote-this-for-friend-because-she.html"&gt;Signals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Written for the July Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-lessons.html"&gt;The Swimming Lesson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5842246704695586170?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5842246704695586170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/drabbles-by-dee.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5842246704695586170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5842246704695586170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/drabbles-by-dee.html' title='Drabbles by Dee'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7204455211694285561</id><published>2011-09-06T19:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T19:30:59.688-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dee'/><title type='text'>Signals</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I wrote this for a friend because she asked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thethingreenlineshop.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hair-brush.png?w=287&amp;amp;h=208" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://thethingreenlineshop.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/hair-brush.png?w=287&amp;amp;h=208" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Signals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;by Dee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Tori stared at it, her emotions a mix of apprehension, frustration and relief. &amp;nbsp;She could remember each time it had been used for punishment; every one painful&amp;nbsp;and preventable. And yet not preventable because it was what she wanted, she&amp;nbsp;just didn't know how to ask for it, so instead she pushed Andra until she got&amp;nbsp;what she needed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Andra knew the signals, usually picking up on them before she went too far. &amp;nbsp;Tonight wasn't one of those times. Andra would be thorough with the hairbrush,&amp;nbsp;but afterwards she would be as gentle as she had been harsh moments before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7204455211694285561?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7204455211694285561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-wrote-this-for-friend-because-she.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7204455211694285561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7204455211694285561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-wrote-this-for-friend-because-she.html' title='Signals'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1970801121255805507</id><published>2011-07-27T18:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T19:48:21.066-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leather'/><title type='text'>Leather</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;In Honor of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://folsomstreetfair.org/fair-info.php"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Folsom Street Fair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #640064; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September 2011 Leather Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #640064; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3Cwjgo_TNg/TjC6nR984aI/AAAAAAAAC5g/RSTmTyitClg/s1600/FSF2007_poster_print_ns_800px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3Cwjgo_TNg/TjC6nR984aI/AAAAAAAAC5g/RSTmTyitClg/s400/FSF2007_poster_print_ns_800px.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://katiesfamily-tarabeth.blogspot.com/2011/09/written-for-september-2011-tea-room.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;An Adventure in Dog Sitting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/09/at-peace.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;At Peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://storiesbylou.blogspot.com/2011/09/by-royal-decree.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Royal Decree&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Lou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chezjeanjacque.blogspot.com/2011/09/doms-are-so-easy.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Doms are so easy...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Tarabeth&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chezjeanjacque.blogspot.com/2011/09/everyones-happy.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Everyone's Happy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeremiahmicah.blogspot.com/2011/09/irresistible-temptation_20.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Irresistible Temptation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Lady Jodie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://storiesbylou.blogspot.com/2011/09/jock.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Jock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Randy Williams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leather.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Leather&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/leathers.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Leathers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Jo and Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/09/leather-night.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Leather Night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/written-for-september-2011-tea-room.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lesson Learned&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluemoonrcextras.blogspot.com/2011/09/men-in-leather.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Men in Leather&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Natasha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://katiesfamily-tarabeth.blogspot.com/2011/09/protection.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Protection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://storiesbylou.blogspot.com/2011/09/soon.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Soon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Lou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://williamchris-lj.blogspot.com/2011/09/twas-night-at-leather-club_24.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;T'was a Night at the Leather Bar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Mel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1970801121255805507?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1970801121255805507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/september-challenge.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1970801121255805507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1970801121255805507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/september-challenge.html' title='Leather'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3Cwjgo_TNg/TjC6nR984aI/AAAAAAAAC5g/RSTmTyitClg/s72-c/FSF2007_poster_print_ns_800px.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1626423919045465812</id><published>2011-07-13T18:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T18:04:26.028-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Nightmares</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nightmares&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by PJ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Pulling down the shorts he ordered, “over my lap, boy,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Reluctantly, the boy draped himself over the smaller mans thighs, hands and toes touching the floor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Eyeing the snow white globes he lectured “Boy, you need to think about your actions. You can’t just push your weight around."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The first smack echoed in the room. As the second fell, the man groaned “I’m sorry."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hearing the voice he woke up in a cold sweat and ran from the bed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Milton followed him to the closet “Sheldon, sweetheart, why are you hiding in here?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Shaking, he looked up “I spanked Gordon!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; 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line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;July 2011 Skinny Dipping Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P4xfxrE6pNs/Th49SqAXuAI/AAAAAAAAC48/wb2ARM9ta6I/s1600/kiddie+pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P4xfxrE6pNs/Th49SqAXuAI/AAAAAAAAC48/wb2ARM9ta6I/s1600/kiddie+pool.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Join Me&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by PJ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Link searched the house. He found a shoe in the hall, another in the living room. Following clothes he worked his way to the kitchen. Wes’ briefs were hanging on the door knob. Gingerly he stepped out onto the porch. No brat there. Hearing water running he moved around the garage. Wes, in all his glory was reclining, eyes closed, in a small kiddie pool filling with water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;“Brat, you better not burn any of my favorite parts” Link growled as he approached his beautiful lover.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Wes jumped then saw the smile. Grinning back he simply said “Wanta join me?”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;　&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1140030783180207033?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1140030783180207033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/join-me.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1140030783180207033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1140030783180207033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/join-me.html' title='Join Me'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P4xfxrE6pNs/Th49SqAXuAI/AAAAAAAAC48/wb2ARM9ta6I/s72-c/kiddie+pool.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4808345100073168466</id><published>2011-07-12T11:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T11:54:45.342-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Our First Fourth of July</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/07/08/ib/wf-03-fireworks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/07/08/ib/wf-03-fireworks.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Our First Fourth of July&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"Link" Wes yelled as he entered the garage. "Link, where are you"? Link had&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;called telling him to be ready at 7:30. Wes turned as he heard a noise and was&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;engulfed in Link's strong arms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Link lead Wes back into the garage and up the ladder to the loft. Wes saw the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;bed centered in the loft door with perfect view of the waterfront. Wes looked&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;up at Link, questioning. Link shrugged "I thought we'd watch the fireworks&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;from here and then make some of our own. Maybe start a tradition". Wes just&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;grinned. "Happy 4th of July, Link"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4808345100073168466?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4808345100073168466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/our-first-fourth-of-july.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4808345100073168466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4808345100073168466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/our-first-fourth-of-july.html' title='Our First Fourth of July'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6919918350997823577</id><published>2011-07-12T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T11:50:35.792-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><title type='text'>Control</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A double drabble for the Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://southafricangirlinsweden.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/iphone-129.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://southafricangirlinsweden.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/iphone-129.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Control&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Get up," Ken ordered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was at times like this that Jess wondered why he wanted to give up&amp;nbsp;control to someone else. He was lying on his bed with a fan blowing&amp;nbsp;over his naked body. Work had been miserable with the temperatures&amp;nbsp;soaring into the triple digits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Now," Ken said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess felt himself pulled up as Ken continued, "Slip on your shorts;&amp;nbsp;that's all you'll need."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess treated Ken to a punishing silence as Ken drove to God only knew&amp;nbsp;where. Jess continued his silence as Ken stopped the car and ordered&amp;nbsp;Jess out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Strip," another order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess looked at Ken, and seeing the authority on his face, slipped his&amp;nbsp;hands in his shorts. As he lowered his shorts, he looked around but&amp;nbsp;didn't recognize the area. He felt Ken take his arm and lead him&amp;nbsp;down a short trail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess saw the river when Ken stopped and released him. The full moon&amp;nbsp;reflecting off the water was mesmerizing. Jess startled when Ken took&amp;nbsp;his arm again, this time leading him into the water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I know what you need," Ken said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was at times like this that Jess knew why he gave up his control to&amp;nbsp;Ken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-6919918350997823577?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/6919918350997823577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/control.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6919918350997823577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/6919918350997823577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/control.html' title='Control'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-9146285557471986338</id><published>2011-07-12T11:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T11:44:45.591-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adele'/><title type='text'>Dive</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room July 2011 Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn2.maxim.com/maxim/files/2010/08/27/cliff/Cliff_Diving_l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://cdn2.maxim.com/maxim/files/2010/08/27/cliff/Cliff_Diving_l.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Dive&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Adele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Rod treaded water watching Adam climb a boulder on the shore. When Adam reached&amp;nbsp;the top he stood and grinned at Rod. Rod grinned back, openly admiring Adam's&amp;nbsp;broad shoulders, flat stomach, and thick, uncut cock. Rod's grin disappeared&amp;nbsp;when Adam dove headfirst into the water. As soon as Adam surfaced Rod yelled,&amp;nbsp;"Are you crazy?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What did I do?" Adam sputtered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You don't dive in a lake without checking the area first. There could be&amp;nbsp;submerged rocks!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Oh. Sorry. But it was a good dive, right?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was a beautiful dive," Rod said, "And you're still getting a spanking."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-9146285557471986338?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/9146285557471986338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/dive.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9146285557471986338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9146285557471986338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/dive.html' title='Dive'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5603714212542682090</id><published>2011-07-12T11:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T11:37:18.708-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rolf'/><title type='text'>Missing Flynn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/FieldofDreams.jpg?t=1242081557" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="237" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/FieldofDreams.jpg?t=1242081557" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Missing Flynn&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Rolf&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;There's something missing. A whisker burning kiss, first thing in the morning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;A very large and heavy hand massaging the back, massaging lower at a far too&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;brisk pace to handle quietly when it's needed. The crushing hug that knocks the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;breath from your lungs and which defies gravity. Those eyes that look deep into&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;you, past all the barriers, the lies, straight to the heart of you, demanding&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;the same in return. A Flynn is missing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;What's not missing? The love you know is there at all times, which you can run&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;to at any moment and find again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5603714212542682090?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5603714212542682090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/missing-flynn.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5603714212542682090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5603714212542682090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/missing-flynn.html' title='Missing Flynn'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8293881898364079742</id><published>2011-06-22T22:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T13:21:13.672-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tarabeth'/><title type='text'>A Matched Set</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is part of the *Green Mountain Boys' Skinny Dipping Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zO4XQF-Pzeo/TgLJRYVOWOI/AAAAAAAAC3A/U33e8kSRWQY/s1600/8222972-red-hand-print-on-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zO4XQF-Pzeo/TgLJRYVOWOI/AAAAAAAAC3A/U33e8kSRWQY/s1600/8222972-red-hand-print-on-white.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6hHGnb3F7WM/TgLJWEF0JRI/AAAAAAAAC3E/CODXFK-4pm8/s1600/simon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6hHGnb3F7WM/TgLJWEF0JRI/AAAAAAAAC3E/CODXFK-4pm8/s1600/simon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Matched Set&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Tarabeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This drouble immediately follows &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/alls-fair-in-love-and-switching.html"&gt;All's Fair in Love and Switching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Miles rolled his eyes at Simon, and his heart filled with glee at his&amp;nbsp;beautifully giggling brat. He reached out his hands and pulled both his naked&amp;nbsp;partners to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A yelp erupted from the small circle, and Steve craned his head to try and look&amp;nbsp;at the hand print Simon added to his butt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simon smiled. "I thought you'd look better with a matched set. I don't want&amp;nbsp;people to ASSUME you're a well loved brat; I want them to KNOW."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve pulled his partners into a tighter hug. He was shocked that he was proud&amp;nbsp;to show off the set of hand prints on his ass—but he also had never thought he&amp;nbsp;would find love like this. Steve took hold of his partner's hands. With Miles&amp;nbsp;on his right and Simon on his left the three lovers laughed as they ran for the&amp;nbsp;river. They danced and splashed in the water until Steve suddenly stopped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What's wrong sweetheart?" Simon asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve's eyes grew large and his mouth fell open. He was unable to speak, all he&amp;nbsp;could do was point to the two older men—who looked much less conservative&amp;nbsp;without their clothes on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;*This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe.  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; 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line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-8293881898364079742?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/8293881898364079742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/matched-set.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8293881898364079742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8293881898364079742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/matched-set.html' title='A Matched Set'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zO4XQF-Pzeo/TgLJRYVOWOI/AAAAAAAAC3A/U33e8kSRWQY/s72-c/8222972-red-hand-print-on-white.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-138499878302453063</id><published>2011-06-22T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T17:55:51.534-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><title type='text'>Swimming Lessons</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is part of the *Green Mountain Boys' Skinny Dipping Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UZWbqyapPyM/TgLEuDJVpKI/AAAAAAAAC28/TLqCdUGTgkE/s1600/raaf_1943_swimming_nude.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UZWbqyapPyM/TgLEuDJVpKI/AAAAAAAAC28/TLqCdUGTgkE/s320/raaf_1943_swimming_nude.jpeg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Swimming Lessons&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Is there a problem?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Milton turned at the familiar voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Boy, I asked you a question."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being partnered to Sheldon, very little surprised Milton but the sight of Gordon standing there sans clothes took him by surprise. And he wasn't the only one, as he felt Blade maneuver behind him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Gordon, I wasn't expecting to see you."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"By the looks of it neither was your young friend.&amp;nbsp; I received the most intriguing invitation and couldn't resist the idea of a brisk swim.&amp;nbsp; Young man, the next time you contract out a mass mail out, make sure you vet the list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;*This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe.  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"&gt;Reality Check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluemooninprogress.blogspot.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"&gt;Natasha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;is licensed under a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="license" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-138499878302453063?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/138499878302453063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-lessons.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/138499878302453063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/138499878302453063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-lessons.html' title='Swimming Lessons'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UZWbqyapPyM/TgLEuDJVpKI/AAAAAAAAC28/TLqCdUGTgkE/s72-c/raaf_1943_swimming_nude.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5159983138087573931</id><published>2011-06-22T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:08:21.125-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><title type='text'>Free</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is part of the *Green Mountain Boys' Skinny Dipping Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s1600/dunes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s320/dunes.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Free&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble Follows&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-and-new-jonahs-reaction.html"&gt;Old and New: Jonah's Reaction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samuel had never felt this way before.  Standing in the middle of an icy cold Vermont river, surrounded by hundreds of men, from various nationalities, of all sizes and ages, some sporting cheeks redder than others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samuel couldn't help but laugh at the antics of some of the men.  Some of the men were playful; some showed signs of arousal despite the freezing water.  He turned to see his lover, standing knee deep in the river.  The smile on Jonah's face was all the reassurance he needed.  No, he never felt this way before; he had never felt so free.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;*This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe.  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; 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text-decoration: none;" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"&gt;Natasha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;is licensed under a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="license" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5159983138087573931?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5159983138087573931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/free.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5159983138087573931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5159983138087573931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/free.html' title='Free'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s72-c/dunes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1365374165678392590</id><published>2011-06-22T21:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T22:07:27.571-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><title type='text'>Old and New: Jonah's Reaction</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is part of the *Green Mountain Boys' Skinny Dipping Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s1600/dunes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s320/dunes.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Old and New: Jonah's Reaction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Jonah was confused at the mandatory gathering of so many men. He froze as four hundred and twenty four men shed their clothes at a shouted command. Jonah heard Samuel laugh as he hastily stripped, but was too shocked to stop him. He felt gentle hands unbutton his shirt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Jonah, breathe you are turning a horrid shade of red." Landon said, and continued sarcastically, "think of this as your Baptism into our world."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Acquiesce, Jonah. As Landon references the New Testament, I'll take a page from Proverbs of the Old Testament, and I'll not spare the rod tonight." Gordon stated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;*This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe.  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"&gt;Reality Check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluemooninprogress.blogspot.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"&gt;Natasha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;is licensed under a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="license" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1365374165678392590?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1365374165678392590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-and-new-jonahs-reaction.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1365374165678392590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1365374165678392590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-and-new-jonahs-reaction.html' title='Old and New: Jonah&apos;s Reaction'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-80iGJwBJ0QU/TgLBAdrGSJI/AAAAAAAAC24/cy4FmGi7nZs/s72-c/dunes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7529696380481712023</id><published>2011-06-22T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:12:01.016-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natasha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tarabeth'/><title type='text'>GMB's Set Skinny Dipping World Record</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2932d5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/06/20/skinny-dipping-world-record-attempt-on-rhossili-beach-91466-28905796/" style="color: #2932d5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The World Skinny Dipping Record was broken in Wales on June 20, 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JSbIXFLG1kE/TgK5knuFUBI/AAAAAAAAC20/ObaknJAjuu0/s1600/skinny_dipping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JSbIXFLG1kE/TgK5knuFUBI/AAAAAAAAC20/ObaknJAjuu0/s400/skinny_dipping.jpg" width="291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The setting of the world record prompted Natasha to write Swimming Fun for the July Tea Room Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-drabble.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Swimming Fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Natasha - Blade and Milton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;After sharing Swimming Fun, Natasha opened her Reality Check Universe* to her fans to have a bit of a play. &amp;nbsp; The following drabbles, droubles, and ficlets were the results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/red-moon-arising.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Red Moon Arising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Dizzy - Blade, Liam and Nathan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-drabble-ii.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Swimming in the Buff&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;by Natasha - Blade, Sheldon, and Mysterious Stranger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-and-new-jonahs-reaction.html"&gt;Old and New: Jonah's Reaction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Dizzy - Jonah and Samuel &amp;amp; Gordon and Landon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/free.html"&gt;Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Dizzy - Jonah and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Samuel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-lessons.html"&gt;Swimming Lessons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Dee - Gordon and Milton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/alls-fair-in-love-and-switching.html"&gt;All's Fair in Love and Switching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Tarabeth - Simon, Miles and Steve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/matched-set.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Matched Set&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/a&gt;by Tarabeth - Simon, Miles and Steve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-drabble-iii.html"&gt;Swim, Swam, Swum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Natasha - Tildon, Mike and Luke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/07/after-swim.html"&gt;After the Swim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Natasha - Blade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JSbIXFLG1kE/TgK5knuFUBI/AAAAAAAAC20/ObaknJAjuu0/s72-c/skinny_dipping.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8831288295060722497</id><published>2011-06-22T00:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T17:10:19.623-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tarabeth'/><title type='text'>All’s Fair in Love and Switching</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Natasha let several people play in her Reality Check Universe* during the Skinny Dipping Challenge and I was tempted by Simon, Miles and Steve. &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I thought that Miles would have found the opportunity to set the skinny dipping record the first fun thing about the Green Mountain Boys, and he would have dragged his partners to the lodge. &amp;nbsp;So, here's my take on it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.cdn2.123rf.com/168nwm/planctonvideo/planctonvideo1011/planctonvideo101100030/8222972-red-hand-print-on-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://us.cdn2.123rf.com/168nwm/planctonvideo/planctonvideo1011/planctonvideo101100030/8222972-red-hand-print-on-white.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;All’s Fair in Love and Switching&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Tarabeth&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A firm hand landed hard against the lily white round butt cheek.&amp;nbsp; “Owe!” Steve yelled.&amp;nbsp; He stumbled as he continued to step out of his jeans and glared at Miles.&amp;nbsp; “What was that for?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew you were a well loved brat.”&amp;nbsp; Miles laughed as he pulled off his shirt.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“I have two tops; I think people will assume I’m well loved.” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Miles yelped and clasped his hands over the now scorching hand print on his ass.&amp;nbsp; He turned and gave Simon the evil eye.&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“All’s fair in love and switching,” Simon laughed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Read what happened next at &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/matched-set.html"&gt;A Matched Set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;*&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"&gt;Reality Check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/8831288295060722497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/alls-fair-in-love-and-switching.html' title='All’s Fair in Love and Switching'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4499272054244578321</id><published>2011-06-21T15:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T16:03:48.070-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>The Struggle</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the June 2011 Tea Room To Brat or Not to Brat Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jillianchantal.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/codpiece1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://jillianchantal.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/codpiece1.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1308694053_1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1308694053_1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Struggle&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hearing a commotion, Link ran up the steps into the kitchen. He heard swearing coming from their bedroom. Stopping short, Link struggled not to laugh. Wes was jumping, twisting &amp;amp; turning, colorful words escaping his mouth. Link grabbed his bouncing brat demanding to know if he was hurt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“NO” Wes growled as he finally finished pulling on the tights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“You aren’t going to the Renaissance Faire in those tights, Babe”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“You’re kidding, right”? Wes whined.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #454545; display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“Nope, the only person enjoying this view is me, now change or we’ll be late”. Slapping Wes’ ass as he passed by leaving the room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4499272054244578321?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4499272054244578321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/struggle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4499272054244578321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4499272054244578321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/struggle.html' title='The Struggle'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1974464026040468032</id><published>2011-06-21T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T15:20:28.412-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summer Rainstorms'/><title type='text'>Summer Rainstorm</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the August 2011 Tea Room Summer Rainstorm Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos.sea-of-ink.com/rainstorm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://photos.sea-of-ink.com/rainstorm.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Summer Rainstorm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It's been hot as hell here lately! My brat and I were sitting on the sofa trying to stay cool by the fan, since the AC had stopped working. All of a sudden, the lights flickered, and we heard the roll of thunder. Then the skies opened up, and the rain began to fall. My brat jumped to his feet, and went running toward the front door. As he swung it open, his face lit up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's raining!" He shouted at me, as he made a bee line toward the front yard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What are you doing?" I yelled after him, grabbing the blanket off the back of the sofa, and following him out the door, all in one fast move.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I love playing in the rain," he told me, dancing around, with his face and arms held up toward the sky.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, my love, but maybe you should play naked in the rain in the back yard," I told him, wrapping him in the blanket, before the neighbors got an eye full, or called the police.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1974464026040468032?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1974464026040468032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-rainstorm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1974464026040468032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1974464026040468032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-rainstorm.html' title='Summer Rainstorm'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7034277961005177218</id><published>2011-06-21T14:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T14:49:24.920-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><title type='text'>To Brat or Not to Brat</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the June 2011 Tea Room to Brat or Not to Brat Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;To Brat or Not to Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;By Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;My brat's head was on my shoulder; we were laid out on the sofa chest to chest. His long legs were between mine. I held him tight to me and gently rubbed his bare back to get him to calm down; his bottom was still a lovely shade of red, from the spanking I gave him not that long ago. I whispered softy to him to settle him down some. His snot, tears and saliva soaked my shirt, but I didn't care as long as he knew I still loved him. I could still see a few hand prints on the back of his legs. I kissed his forehead, and he looked at me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We're good?" He asked with a shaky breath as he rubbed his face into my shirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Always," I told him giving him a one arm hug and kissing his forehead again. "Did you learn anything from this?" I asked as I always d--sometimes I get an answer, sometimes I get a shrug. This time I felt him nod into my chest. "What?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When to brat and not to brat," he told me giving me a silly smile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7034277961005177218?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7034277961005177218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/to-brat-or-not-to-brat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7034277961005177218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7034277961005177218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/to-brat-or-not-to-brat.html' title='To Brat or Not to Brat'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7189423269790590142</id><published>2011-06-21T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:12:26.701-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>By Any Other Name</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the June 2011 Tea Room To Brat or Not to Brat challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;By Any Other Name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Chase, you've been working on your assignment since I arrived home." Jason said. "See college isn't as hard as you thought it would be. I'm proud of you."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chase felt a warm glow inside as Jason told him he was proud of him. "I didn't know Shakespeare was so cool. High school literature class sucked, but this professor makes it interesting. We have to take one of  Shakespeare's quotes and write an essay showing how it applies to our lives."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Professor Stanley is good, she relates to her students and their needs," Jason replied.  "Are you almost finished? Would you like to read it to me?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yep, just finished.  OK, you ready?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Beast with Two Backs and How it Applies to My Life," Chase started then stopped as Jason interrupted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Chase, I don't think that's an appropriate quote."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I thought you might say that, so I have another one.  Want to hear it?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I may regret this but yes." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A Spanking by Any Other Name, Would Still Feel the Same." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have one for you," Jason said. "To Spank or Not to Spank, That is the Question."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chase laughed and replied, "I think you are making Much Ado about Nothing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The End&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7189423269790590142?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7189423269790590142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/by-any-other-name.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7189423269790590142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7189423269790590142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/by-any-other-name.html' title='By Any Other Name'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-8588660863876254533</id><published>2011-06-21T14:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:15:59.567-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skinny Dipping'/><title type='text'>Red Moon Arising</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinning Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble follows Natasha's &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/swimming-drabble.html"&gt;Swimming Fun &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Drabble&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/Revelations.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/Revelations.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Red Moon Arising&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Are you sure you still want to go?" Liam asked, cuddling Nathan on his lap. "I paddled you pretty hard."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"I wanted, needed, it hard. We are back at the resort.  I wanted to feel your dominance." Nathan assured his top with a watery smile.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"All right, let's go see if we can break this world record."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They walked arm in arm to where over four hundred naked men waited for the signal before running into the river winding through the resorts land.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"I see a red moon arising!" a voice sang out behind them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Shut up, Blade!" Nathan laughed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is followed by Natasha's &lt;i&gt;Swimming in the Buff.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe.  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"&gt;Reality Check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span 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Arising'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-16709008163292486</id><published>2011-06-11T01:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T01:46:44.770-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jay'/><title type='text'>Shall I Compare Thee to a Naughty Child?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m6W-UHy3tyY/TQUHMo2w8OI/AAAAAAAAAhY/kTKb3x87Er4/s320/quill_n_paper.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m6W-UHy3tyY/TQUHMo2w8OI/AAAAAAAAAhY/kTKb3x87Er4/s320/quill_n_paper.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shall I Compare Thee to a Naughty Child?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Jay&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;with apologies to William Shakespeare&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Shall I compare thee to a naughty child?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Thou art more wilful and more resolute:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;A boy may be reproved with comments mild,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;But words curb not thy conduct dissolute.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Sometimes I think, to test my love and bounds,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Thou need’st me to endure without complaint,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Yet my reflective thought thy rage compounds:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Thy tricks would try the patience of a saint.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;But when contrition floods thy wayward soul,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;And guilt and shame thy joyful spirit crush:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Then gladly dost thou bend unto my role,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;As I do strive to make thy bottom blush.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;In thy submission dost devotion lie,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;My love and care for thee will never die.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: 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rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/shall-i-compare-thee-to-naughty-child.html' title='Shall I Compare Thee to a Naughty Child?'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m6W-UHy3tyY/TQUHMo2w8OI/AAAAAAAAAhY/kTKb3x87Er4/s72-c/quill_n_paper.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2298079154600207497</id><published>2011-05-30T22:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T22:34:09.700-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adele'/><title type='text'>It Hurts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/StreetScene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/StreetScene.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It Hurts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Adele&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It hurts. He is so angry at me, and I know he has every right to be,&amp;nbsp;but still, it hurts. I beg and plead, but once he has committed&amp;nbsp;himself he always stands by his decision. I feel the tears welling&amp;nbsp;up in my eyes and I cannot keep them from falling. I'm sure I must&amp;nbsp;look pitiful, but there is no mercy in him right now, no forgiveness&amp;nbsp;yet. I know he will get over being mad and forgive me eventually,&amp;nbsp;but I simply cannot wait for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Please? PLEASE!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"No."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It hurts when he won't spank me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2298079154600207497?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2298079154600207497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-hurts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2298079154600207497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2298079154600207497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-hurts.html' title='It Hurts'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5445322496506863430</id><published>2011-05-20T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T01:24:25.000-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elizabeth Marshal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><title type='text'>Good Morning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VRG6_FbAB94/TdbUrfYCmPI/AAAAAAAAC1M/QS8pFCK1eGw/s1600/buds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VRG6_FbAB94/TdbUrfYCmPI/AAAAAAAAC1M/QS8pFCK1eGw/s320/buds.jpg" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Artwork by &lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=buds&amp;amp;sub=couples&amp;amp;page=all"&gt;Michael Breyette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Good Morning&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Clawkit&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;By mutual agreement they don't kiss in the morning. They like sex first thing&amp;nbsp;and getting up to brush ruins the mood and Pat at least is fastidious enough&amp;nbsp;that morning breath...just no. Mark doesn't care. He burrows his nose in Pat's&amp;nbsp;warmly fragrant armpit, deliberately catching the hair in his teeth and pulling.&amp;nbsp;Pat shoves him away, lower, and Mark obediently ducks under the blanket,&amp;nbsp;inhaling the faintly stale air as he closes his lips around Pat's erect cock.&amp;nbsp;There's breakfast and there's love and this is both, hot and sticky, sweet and&amp;nbsp;sloppy and very, very good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5445322496506863430?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5445322496506863430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-morning.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5445322496506863430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5445322496506863430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-morning.html' title='Good Morning'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VRG6_FbAB94/TdbUrfYCmPI/AAAAAAAAC1M/QS8pFCK1eGw/s72-c/buds.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7732223463080653192</id><published>2011-05-20T00:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T00:10:24.695-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><title type='text'>Breakfast in Bed with Dillon and Gary</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Inspired by the Loving Swats May 2011 Breakfast in Bed Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/Sunday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn311/windowshopper37/Sunday.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Breakfast in Bed with Dillon and Gary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;Dillon rolled over and gave a low moan. His arm snaked around my waist and his leg pinned mine to the bed. He buried his face into my chest, and I gently kissed his forehead. &amp;nbsp;I took a deep breath inhaling his smell. He gently nuzzled my chest and tenderly pushed his crotch into mine. I felt his tongue touch my nipple as he licked his dry lips. &amp;nbsp;My stomach gave a slight rumble. "Hey what do you want for breakfast?" I asked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;"You!" He said and took my nipple into his mouth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7732223463080653192?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7732223463080653192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed-with-dillon-and-gary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7732223463080653192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7732223463080653192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed-with-dillon-and-gary.html' title='Breakfast in Bed with Dillon and Gary'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-338505371785668015</id><published>2011-05-19T16:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T16:26:43.403-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Healthy Living'/><title type='text'>The Cornish Cream Tea</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Written for the May 2011 Tea Room Healthy Living Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/5/20/1274356935044/Cream-tea-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/5/20/1274356935044/Cream-tea-006.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The Cornish Cream Tea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/&gt;  &lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/&gt;  &lt;o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/&gt; &lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:207pt;height:124.5pt;visibility:visible'&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Alison\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png"  o:title=""/&gt; &lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;  &lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;“We can’t come to the West Country and not have a Cornish cream tea.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“You shouldn’t be clogging up your arteries with clotted cream.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“Oh, come on.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We’re only here for the weekend.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This is a special treat.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“You’ve got your cholesterol test on Monday.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“So!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It needs to be a realistic reading. I should be eating normally today.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“Okay, go ahead.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But if the result is worse than last time, you go over my knee.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“Hey, who’s in charge in this relationship?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“When it comes to your health, I am.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;“You know, the tuna salad looks very good too.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;~*~*~*~*~*~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-338505371785668015?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/338505371785668015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/cornish-cream-tea.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/338505371785668015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/338505371785668015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/cornish-cream-tea.html' title='The Cornish Cream Tea'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3146639822473150436</id><published>2011-05-18T14:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T22:07:04.570-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Body Language - Jess</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/construction%20worker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/construction%20worker.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Body Language - Jess&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Jess saw the change in Ken's body; the small lift of the shoulders, the gleam in his eyes, his chest's almost imperceptible swell.  This was Ken's body and mind going into top mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess could feel his own body responding to Ken.  His shoulders dropping as the frustration he felt at the dry waller's mistake slipped into calmness. Jess felt the disappointment at himself, that he had lost control, yelled at the dry waller. Jess's ass tingled with awareness as he glanced at Ken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jess knew what would happen tonight.  His mind and his body craved the dominance. Jess would resist the urge to submit until tonight. Tonight, at home, Jess didn't have to control anything and with that thought, felt his body relax even more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3146639822473150436?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3146639822473150436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/body-language-jess.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3146639822473150436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3146639822473150436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/body-language-jess.html' title='Body Language - Jess'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4578969133630703456</id><published>2011-05-18T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:14:56.253-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Healthy Living'/><title type='text'>Hobbies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Written for the May 2011 Health Living Tea Room Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hobbies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"You said you wanted us to start living healthier. It says right here that you should have a hobby, something you enjoy." Jess said. "Doing something you enjoy relieves stress. And relieving stress is living healthier."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"I meant eating right; exercising more." Ken explained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"If the burn is just right, we will get plenty of exercise afterward."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Ken looked at him and asked, "Are you sure?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Yes, it's something I enjoy, as long as I'm not in trouble," Jess mumbled, embarrassed to admit such a thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Ken looked at Jess smiled and said, "OK then, over my lap you go."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;End&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4578969133630703456?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4578969133630703456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/hobbies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4578969133630703456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4578969133630703456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/hobbies.html' title='Hobbies'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5894223477853459030</id><published>2011-05-18T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-18T13:56:21.932-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Healthy Living'/><title type='text'>Who's the Top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Written for the May 2011 Tea Room Healthy Living Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ix95Gs6-Vk/S-dCcKwLgMI/AAAAAAAAACk/JaRc0ELJT_g/s1600/broccoli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ix95Gs6-Vk/S-dCcKwLgMI/AAAAAAAAACk/JaRc0ELJT_g/s200/broccoli.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/beets1.s600x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="151" src="http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/beets1.s600x600.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Who's the Top&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by PJ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Lost in thought, he came in to my workshop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Snagging him, I pulled him in close for a hug.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Sighing he whispered in my ear "broccoli or beets?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Huh?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"We're eating healthier now, you choose."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Groaning, I slid the candy bar further back on the bench.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Tapping my belly, grinning as he pointed out,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"A walk will help work off that candy bar."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Patting his hip I growled,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Getting a little sassy aren't you little boy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;I'll decide how WE work off that candy bar"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 16px;"&gt;I reached for his waist band, clearing off the work bench with my free hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5894223477853459030?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5894223477853459030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/whos-top.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5894223477853459030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5894223477853459030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/whos-top.html' title='Who&apos;s the Top'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ix95Gs6-Vk/S-dCcKwLgMI/AAAAAAAAACk/JaRc0ELJT_g/s72-c/broccoli.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5397004775315669476</id><published>2011-05-16T02:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-16T02:10:35.749-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><title type='text'>Breakfast In Bed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Inspired by the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed.html"&gt;Loving Swat's Breakfast in Bed Drabble Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Author's note: I'm &amp;nbsp;not part of the group where this challenge came from but the Doctor's brat was begging this to be written.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/msheldrake/msheldrake0910/msheldrake091000020/5678761-bagel-topped-with-unhealthy-amounts-of-cream-cheese-and-jelly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/msheldrake/msheldrake0910/msheldrake091000020/5678761-bagel-topped-with-unhealthy-amounts-of-cream-cheese-and-jelly.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast In Bed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Carol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Roll over and close your eyes," my brat ordered from the door way.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;I did as he asked; I even put my hands behind my head. The next thing I felt was him pulling the bedding back and then his straddling me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Open your eyes," he whispered.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;I opened my eyes to see him holding a jar of jam and a thing of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305535837_3" style="line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;cream cheese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"So do you want to be the bagel or toast?" He asked as the tip of his tongue touch his pink lips.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"Toast you can be the bagel." I told him when I saw the strawberries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5397004775315669476?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5397004775315669476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed_16.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5397004775315669476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5397004775315669476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed_16.html' title='Breakfast In Bed'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-23164750208062419</id><published>2011-05-15T23:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T23:27:11.506-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jay'/><title type='text'>Breakfast in Bed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=morningglory&amp;amp;sub=all&amp;amp;page=all"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://images.breyette.com/pleasedontsteal/gallery/morningglory.jpg" width="241" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fresh from the shower, with just a towel around his waist, John exuded sex&amp;nbsp;appeal. His hair dripped onto his muscular shoulders and the lingering dampness&amp;nbsp;on his skin made his body glisten. Richard lay back in bed and tried to look&amp;nbsp;alluring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The silent invitation worked its magic and John stopped pottering around the&amp;nbsp;bedroom and came to join his partner. Carelessly discarding his towel, he&amp;nbsp;climbed under the coverlet and rolled eagerly into Richard's embrace. There he&amp;nbsp;stopped, conscious of a gritty coating adhering to his damp skin. "Have you&amp;nbsp;been eating toast in bed?" he asked menacingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-23164750208062419?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/23164750208062419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/23164750208062419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/23164750208062419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed_15.html' title='Breakfast in Bed'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5082001803821676598</id><published>2011-05-15T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T21:36:15.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jo'/><title type='text'>Breakfast in Bed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_526/12807655859Y6ToS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_526/12807655859Y6ToS.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Jo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breakfast in bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam had never been good in the kitchen but unknown to Brian he'd been taking&lt;br /&gt;lessons. There had been many burnt items, but finally he believed he had cracked&lt;br /&gt;it. This morning was his graduation exercise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Wake up sleepyhead," he said as he entered the bedroom carrying a tray. Brian&lt;br /&gt;sat up, rubbed his eyes and eyed the tray suspiciously. He began to laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Congratulation, you've mastered two toast, with jam and marmite and coffee."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5082001803821676598?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5082001803821676598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/written-for-loving-swats-2011-breakfast_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5082001803821676598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5082001803821676598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/written-for-loving-swats-2011-breakfast_15.html' title='Breakfast in Bed'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3861968252260877455</id><published>2011-05-15T16:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T18:12:34.270-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Drabbles by PJ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; 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font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the July 2011 Tea Room Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/join-me.html"&gt;Join Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/our-first-fourth-of-july.html"&gt;Fireworks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the June 2011 To Brat or Not to Brat Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/struggle.html"&gt;The Struggle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/whos-top.html"&gt;Who's the Top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjpages-wl.blogspot.com/"&gt;More Stories by PJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3861968252260877455?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3861968252260877455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/drabbles-by-pj.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3861968252260877455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3861968252260877455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/drabbles-by-pj.html' title='Drabbles by PJ'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4268799584659152505</id><published>2011-05-15T16:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T17:58:39.790-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Magic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-chM01fQ6bRs/Th4-6WBz07I/AAAAAAAAC5A/mzk1ML2Nctw/s1600/magic-top-hat-and-magicians-wand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-chM01fQ6bRs/Th4-6WBz07I/AAAAAAAAC5A/mzk1ML2Nctw/s1600/magic-top-hat-and-magicians-wand.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Magic&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I was sent to the corner 15 minutes ago. At least my butt wasn't on fire. A little giggle slipped out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"No giggling in the corner" came from the bathroom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"I didn't know you would need it tonight?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I turned as he came into the bedroom, toweling off his freshly washed hair. "You do not use my Top Hat to practice your magic tricks"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Picturing it again, I doubled over laughing "You should have seen your face - eggs dripping everywhere". Eyes twinkling, he shook his head pulling me in to a familiar hug.&amp;nbsp; The kiss said I was forgiven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4268799584659152505?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4268799584659152505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/magic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4268799584659152505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4268799584659152505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/magic.html' title='Magic'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-chM01fQ6bRs/Th4-6WBz07I/AAAAAAAAC5A/mzk1ML2Nctw/s72-c/magic-top-hat-and-magicians-wand.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7785464569557488853</id><published>2011-05-15T16:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T16:41:36.446-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PJ'/><title type='text'>Sunrise</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/af/74/c7/incredible-sunrise-from.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/af/74/c7/incredible-sunrise-from.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sunrise&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by PJ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Snuggling deeper, trying to find the warmth that was there just a few minutes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ago, he could hear water gently splashing. He didn't want to open his eyes. It&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;was cold, the bed was hard and his butt hurt. He had promised himself he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;wouldn't wander off again tonight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;He felt a gentle nudge on his hip. Carefully rolling over he winced as he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;peeked out. The cause of his pain was kneeling beside him, framed by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;breathtaking sunrise over the lake, holding warm bear claws and 2 hot&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;chocolates. Grinning he moved over flipping their sleeping bag open.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7785464569557488853?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7785464569557488853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunrise.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7785464569557488853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7785464569557488853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunrise.html' title='Sunrise'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7369479249784216536</id><published>2011-05-15T13:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:14:34.490-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Blush</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breyette.com/gallery/?art=breakfast&amp;amp;sub=couples"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://images.breyette.com/pleasedontsteal/gallery/breakfast.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Blush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;The first blush of the morning sun peaked into the room shining in Reed's eyes,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;waking him. Reed rolled over, and since William had pushed the covers to his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;ankles, he saw the blush still on William's bottom. Reed knew by that slight&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;blush, William would have a reminder of yesterday's spanking every time he sat&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;down. Reed thought of the hard chairs that went with the kitchen table.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Slipping quietly out of bed, leaving William sleeping, Reed walked to their&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;kitchen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Reed couldn't make the whole day comfortable for William, but breakfast would be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;eaten on their soft bed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The end.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7369479249784216536?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7369479249784216536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/blush.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7369479249784216536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7369479249784216536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/blush.html' title='Blush'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7926814558679871232</id><published>2011-05-15T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T16:41:00.197-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><title type='text'>Breakfast in Bed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Written for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/main" style="color: #298bd5; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Loving Swats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;May 2011&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RPeO_zW6N24/SiMeaqW7hhI/AAAAAAAAA-U/F1ptFISFrac/s200/poptartwhole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RPeO_zW6N24/SiMeaqW7hhI/AAAAAAAAA-U/F1ptFISFrac/s320/poptartwhole.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Breakfast in Bed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;By Dash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Charlie smiled as he moved around the kitchen. The toaster popped and his smile&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;widen as he laughed softly. Joe had been working long hours lately and they&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;hadn't had much time to take advantage of the new kitchen. Luckily, this was&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;going to make up for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Carefully balancing the plates, he laid everything out exactly how he wanted it&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;on their bed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Turning on the tv, he smiled as he enjoyed a quick bite of hot, buttered&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;pop-tart before queuing up the DVR; ready to get caught up on Castle in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;peace and quiet of the house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7926814558679871232?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7926814558679871232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/written-for-loving-swats-2011-breakfast.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7926814558679871232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7926814558679871232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/written-for-loving-swats-2011-breakfast.html' title='Breakfast in Bed'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RPeO_zW6N24/SiMeaqW7hhI/AAAAAAAAA-U/F1ptFISFrac/s72-c/poptartwhole.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5238658274863263940</id><published>2011-05-15T02:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T14:22:30.265-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Breakfast in Bed'/><title type='text'>Breakfast in Bed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Amason&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunrise.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"&gt;Sunrise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5238658274863263940?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5238658274863263940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5238658274863263940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5238658274863263940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/breakfast-in-bed.html' title='Breakfast in Bed'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3371896096957127222</id><published>2011-04-26T17:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T16:56:50.609-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Drabbles by Dizzy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/images/brown2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.lsfiction.com/images/brown2.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;Feelings - Ken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/body-language-jess.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Body Language - Jess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Writing Lines Chillax Spring 2011 Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/shellac.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Shellac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/jonahs-trying.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Johah's Trying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Loving Swats May 2011 Breakfast in Bed Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/blush.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Blush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room May 2011 Health Living Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/hobbies.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hobbies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the Tea Room June 2011 To Brat or Not to Brat Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/by-any-other-name.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;By Any Other Name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #640064; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room July 2011 Skinny Dipping Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/control.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;Control&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/red-moon-arising.html" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Red Moon Arising&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-and-new-jonahs-reaction.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;Old and New: Jonah's Reaction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/free.html" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #640064; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the Tea Room August 2011 Summer Rain Storm Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #640064; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/08/decision.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;Decision&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;~*~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/08/good-to-be-home.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;Good to be Home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Tea Room September 2011 Leather Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/09/at-peace.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;At Peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the Tea Room October 2011 Oktoberfest Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/written-for-tea-rooms-october-2011.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Anything for a Beer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-cry.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I Cry&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/his-hands.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;His Hands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;~*~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/10/those-hands.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Those Hands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;More Stories by Dizzy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/dj.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;More Stories by Dizzy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://realitychecktexasseries.blogspot.com/2011/03/introduction.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stories by Dizzy and Natasha&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3371896096957127222?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3371896096957127222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/drabbles-by-dj.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3371896096957127222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3371896096957127222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/drabbles-by-dj.html' title='Drabbles by Dizzy'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1995541026615846364</id><published>2011-04-26T17:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:13:46.489-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Feelings - Ken</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T-J2hjN2HaE/S_bdpc5IMHI/AAAAAAAACmo/_fzGSg33yrc/s1600/hardhat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T-J2hjN2HaE/S_bdpc5IMHI/AAAAAAAACmo/_fzGSg33yrc/s320/hardhat.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Feelings&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ken welcomed the feelings that were rising inside. His palm was tingling, in anticipation of spanking his brat, turning those bottom cheeks dark crimson; that feeling of guiding, and yes even scolding, his brat. These were the feelings that he reveled in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ken would welcome the feelings that came after the discipline, also. He would comfort Jess. He would assure his brat that he wasn't angry.  Ken would remind Jess that he didn't enjoy causing his brat pain; although, he did enjoy the caring and dominance that defined his role of top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They would have to wait until tonight, until they were safely at home.  Here at the construction site, Jess was the boss. At home, Jess gratefully relinquished that burden, while Ken gloried in it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1995541026615846364?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1995541026615846364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/feelings-ken.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1995541026615846364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1995541026615846364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/feelings-ken.html' title='Feelings - Ken'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T-J2hjN2HaE/S_bdpc5IMHI/AAAAAAAACmo/_fzGSg33yrc/s72-c/hardhat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-3524933856763214447</id><published>2011-04-25T16:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T14:44:12.547-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summer Rainstorms'/><title type='text'>August 2011 - Summer Rainstorms</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stevewalkerartist.com/sitebuilder/images/tempest-758x557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" src="http://stevewalkerartist.com/sitebuilder/images/tempest-758x557.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;August 2011 Tea Room&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;S&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ummer Rainstorm Challenge Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://pjpages-wl.blogspot.com/2011/08/change-of-plans.html"&gt;Change of Plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/08/decision.html"&gt;Decision&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://dj-wl.blogspot.com/2011/08/good-to-be-home.html"&gt;Good to be Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-rainstorm.html"&gt;Summer Rainstorm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-storms.html"&gt;Summer Storms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-3524933856763214447?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/3524933856763214447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/august-2011-summer-rain-storms.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3524933856763214447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/3524933856763214447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/august-2011-summer-rain-storms.html' title='August 2011 - Summer Rainstorms'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1609338861022399475</id><published>2011-04-25T16:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T17:37:02.927-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='To Brat or not to Brat'/><title type='text'>June 2011 - To Brat or Not to Brat</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The June 2011 Challenge t'is all things Shakespeare.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Writeth a sonnet, drabble, story or play.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Use a Shakespeare theme, base thy story on a favorite quote,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;or sendeth thy characters to the Renaissance Faire or to a Shakespeare Festival.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/talk-like-shakespeare-day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/talk-like-shakespeare-day.jpg" width="215" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/by-any-other-name.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Any Other Name&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by DJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/shall-i-compare-thee-to-naughty-child.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Shall I Compare Thee to a Naughty Child?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; a sonnet by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluemoonrcextras.blogspot.com/2011/06/steves-tale-chapter-14.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Steve's Tale, Chapter 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by Natasha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://draggon-flye.livejournal.com/3801.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Surviving Shakespeare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by Draggon-flye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/struggle.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;The Struggle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/to-brat-or-not-to-brat.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;To Brat or Not to Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-brat-or-not-to-brat-by-chris.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;To Brat or Not to Brat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt; by Chris Dangerfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://www.mainstrike.com/mstservices/handy/insult.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;Shakespearean Insult Generator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for inspiration.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1609338861022399475?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1609338861022399475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/june-2011-to-brat-or-not-to-brat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1609338861022399475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1609338861022399475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/june-2011-to-brat-or-not-to-brat.html' title='June 2011 - To Brat or Not to Brat'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6539419388399586028</id><published>2011-04-25T16:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T23:07:37.200-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Healthy Living'/><title type='text'>May 2011 - Healthy Living</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Healthy Living&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;May 2011 Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://genesis-chiropractic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/healthy-food.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://genesis-chiropractic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/healthy-food.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/hobbies.html"&gt;Hobbies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;by DJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;~*~&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/whos-top.html"&gt;Who's the Top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;by PJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/05/cornish-cream-tea.html"&gt;The Cornish Cream Tea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;After you have&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;thoroughly&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;enjoyed looking at the picture,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;please plan to to write a story or drabble for the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;July 2011 Skinny Dipping Tea Room Challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/02/02/LHnudies_wideweb__470x289,0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="245" src="http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/02/02/LHnudies_wideweb__470x289,0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/06/20/skinny-dipping-world-record-attempt-on-rhossili-beach-91466-28905796/"&gt;The World Skinny Dipping Record was broken in Wales on June 20, 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lsfiction.com/files/jayjreightcoldandcontrite.htm"&gt;Cold and Contrite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Jay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/control.html"&gt;Control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/dive.html"&gt;Dive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Adele&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/join-me.html"&gt;Join Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by PJ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://thetrilliuminn.blogspot.com/2011/07/o-canada.html"&gt;O' Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Tarabeth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://carolscorners.blogspot.com/2011/06/characters-doctor-and-his-brat.html"&gt;Skinny Dipping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Carol&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/07/unexpected-visitors.html"&gt;Unexpected Visitors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Natasha&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/06/gmbs-set-skinny-dipping-world-record.html"&gt;The Green Mountain Boys Break the World Skinny Dipping Record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;with drabbles and short stories by Natasha, Dizzy, Dee, and Tarabeth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2126663631007682978?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2126663631007682978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/july-2011-skinny-dipping.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2126663631007682978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2126663631007682978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/july-2011-skinny-dipping.html' title='July 2011 - Skinny Dipping'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-7524769109805627097</id><published>2011-04-14T18:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:13:24.335-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chillax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Shellac</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/products/0409-shellac/00-shellac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/products/0409-shellac/00-shellac.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Shellac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;Ken looked at the can, baffled. "Why are you giving this to me?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;"You said you needed shellac," Jess said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;"I said you needed to "chillax".&lt;span style="line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;It means chill out and relax at the same time," Ken said, trying unsuccessfully to hide his grin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;"I just wasted two hours going to Meeks! All because you've been working with those teenagers." Jess yelled. "What kind of top are you?'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;"Yours."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 1.22em;"&gt;With that single word, said so lovingly, Jess did chillax.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7524769109805627097?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7524769109805627097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/shellac.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7524769109805627097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7524769109805627097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/shellac.html' title='Shellac'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-4540454918769709515</id><published>2011-04-14T18:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:36:46.222-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chillax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><title type='text'>Chillaxing</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Written for the Writing Lines Spring 2011 Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chillaxing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Carol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What are you doing?" David asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Chillaxing," I told him licking my ice-cream cone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Aren't you suppose to do that in your room." He said giving me an evil grin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"To chill and to relax at the same time is Chillaxing." I told him, he just&amp;nbsp;shook his head and sat down next to me in the kiddie pool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What are you two doing?" Allen asked. I looked over at David.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We're chillaxing." We both said licking our cones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-4540454918769709515?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/4540454918769709515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillaxing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4540454918769709515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/4540454918769709515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillaxing.html' title='Chillaxing'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2686589822796359337</id><published>2011-04-14T18:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T09:12:57.818-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chillax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dizzy'/><title type='text'>Jonah's Trying</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Written for the Writing Lines Spring 2011 Drabble Challenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Jonah's Trying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Dizzy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Samuel's eyes sparkled as he choked out, "what did you say?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I said; let's go to our room and chillax. Some of the younger brats have been trying to Americanize my speech." Jonah sighed and continued. "I love you, Samuel; I don't want to lose you. I'm trying to change."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You don't have to change that much," Samuel sniggered. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let's go upstairs, I'll show you what hasn't changed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laughter erupted as Jonah slung him over his shoulder, and took the stairs two at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Drabble is set in the Reality Check Universe. Reality Check by &lt;a href="http://bluemooninprogress.blogspot.com/"&gt;Natasha&lt;/a&gt; is licensed under a &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2686589822796359337?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2686589822796359337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/jonahs-trying.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2686589822796359337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2686589822796359337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/jonahs-trying.html' title='Jonah&apos;s Trying'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5722385294423745505</id><published>2011-04-14T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:37:05.242-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chillax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jay'/><title type='text'>Chillax</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/shakespeare-seriously-noob.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="224" src="http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/shakespeare-seriously-noob.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Chillax&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"Oh, just chillax!" Andy said with a touch of exasperation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"What did you say? I hope that's not some new obscenity you've picked up from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;the internet."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"No, no it's not," Andy hastened to explain. "It's just means chill out and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;relax."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"Then say what you mean, young man."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"I'm only saying that you're making a fuss over nothing. I can sort this out&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;later."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"If you don't sort it out now you're looking at a spannering."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"What do you mean?" Andy asked suspiciously.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;"Just a spanking followed by cornering. You're not the only one who can coin&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;new words!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5722385294423745505?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5722385294423745505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax_14.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5722385294423745505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5722385294423745505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax_14.html' title='Chillax'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-9098041013202274204</id><published>2011-04-14T17:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T15:28:08.734-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chillax'/><title type='text'>Chillax</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writinglines/"&gt;Writing Lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Spring 2011 Drabble Challenge. &amp;nbsp;It’s a very simple one ‘The brat tells the top to Chillax’.&amp;nbsp; Or if you like the top can tell the brat either way is fun.&amp;nbsp; For anyone who doesn’t know the word, the Urban Dictionary defines it as:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chillax:&lt;o&gt;&lt;/o&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraph" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;1.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;To chill and relax simultaneously.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o&gt;&lt;/o&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraph" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;2.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;To loosen or reduce the level of stress by employing a more relaxed and groovy outlook.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/image/composition/17254077/view/1/producttypecolor/1/type/png/width/280/height/280/chillax_design.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/image/composition/17254077/view/1/producttypecolor/1/type/png/width/280/height/280/chillax_design.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax_14.html"&gt;Chillax&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;by Jay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax.html"&gt;Chillax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;by Natasha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://davebobpauldan.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax-dr-p.html"&gt;Chillax Dr. P&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; by Mel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillaxing.html"&gt;Chillaxing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeremiahmicah.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax-old-man.html"&gt;Chillax, Old Man!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lady Jodie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://storiesbylou.blogspot.com/2011/04/itch.html"&gt;Itch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thefiremansbrat.blogspot.com/2011/04/it-was-just-small-fire.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;It Was Just a Small Fire&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Tarabeth and Jo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/jonahs-trying.html"&gt;Johnah's Trying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; by DJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://melandme-lj.blogspot.com/2011/04/rudeness-isnt-tolerated.html"&gt;Rudeness isn't Tolerated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lady Jodie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/shellac.html"&gt;Shellac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by DJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://storiesbylou.blogspot.com/2011/04/snap.html"&gt;Snap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-9098041013202274204?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/9098041013202274204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9098041013202274204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/9098041013202274204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/chillax.html' title='Chillax'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-1631300608151880434</id><published>2011-04-14T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-20T15:30:15.335-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taxes'/><title type='text'>Taxes - April Challenge 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyboomercaretaker.com/images/How-Does-In-Inheritance-Effect-Your-Federal-Taxes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="254" src="http://www.babyboomercaretaker.com/images/How-Does-In-Inheritance-Effect-Your-Federal-Taxes.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://joandme-lj.blogspot.com/2011/04/busted.html"&gt;Busted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Lady Jodie and Jo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars.html"&gt;Cars and More Cars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by Natasha - Part &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-2.html"&gt;II&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-3.html"&gt; III&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-4.html"&gt;IV&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-5.html"&gt;V&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-6.html"&gt;VI&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-7.html"&gt;VII&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-8.html"&gt;VIII&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-9.html"&gt;IX&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-10.html"&gt;X&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://natasha-dailyblue.blogspot.com/2011/04/cars-and-more-cars-11.html"&gt;XI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-1631300608151880434?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/1631300608151880434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/taxes-april-challenge-2011.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1631300608151880434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/1631300608151880434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/04/taxes-april-challenge-2011.html' title='Taxes - April Challenge 2011'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-2207524148244228551</id><published>2011-03-27T09:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:32:15.798-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taxes'/><title type='text'>April 2011 Challenge - Taxes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babyboomercaretaker.com/images/How-Does-In-Inheritance-Effect-Your-Federal-Taxes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="254" src="http://www.babyboomercaretaker.com/images/How-Does-In-Inheritance-Effect-Your-Federal-Taxes.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;April 2011 Tea Room Challenge&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Write a Drabble or Story about Taxes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-2207524148244228551?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/2207524148244228551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-2011-challenge-taxes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2207524148244228551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/2207524148244228551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-2011-challenge-taxes.html' title='April 2011 Challenge - Taxes'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-291917998942891445</id><published>2011-03-27T08:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-24T22:33:35.602-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traffic'/><title type='text'>March 2011 Challenge - Traffic Accidents</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I’d made it as clear as I possibly could, without actually having to say the embarrassing words, that I really quite liked being pulled across Matt’s lap and having my bottom warmed. For his part, Matt felt no corresponding awkwardness about describing his own feelings. Not a bit of it! He could wax eloquent on the subject of my pretty little bum and how he liked to watch it pink up and glow a fiery red. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I would pretend to be outraged by his words. It wasn’t that difficult; I do a good impression of pouting and flouncing. But Matt wasn’t deceived. He knew how turned on I was by his description of my bubble butt writhing over his lap, of the handprints he laid on each cheek and the rosy flush he could impart to my nether regions. Well, I could hardly hide my response, could I? Matt has a nasty habit of embarking on his lyrical descriptions while I’m lying naked across his lap and sometimes my squirming and wriggling has very little to do with the blaze in my backside. So, as I say, Matt knew I wasn’t an unwilling participant in our little games.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Actually, it was always more than just a game. There had to be an excuse for a spanking, however flimsy. We both like the ‘who’s been a naughty boy?’ scenario and sometimes I’d mess about, do something stupid, simply to provoke the desired response. It’s not just the spanking, you see. I like everything that goes with it: the sense of shame, the humiliation of being bare arsed, the tense wait for the first stroke and, finally, the proffered apology and resultant forgiveness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I’m afraid that makes it all sound much heavier than it actually was. I never really needed much in the way of spanking; the eroticism was all in my head. Initially I did feel a trifle uncomfortable about my attraction to such a shameful fetish but Matt says my feelings are quite normal, quite common even. He was so matter of fact about his own enjoyment of spanking, so articulate in the analysis of his own responses, that he helped me come to terms with my own needs and desires. For him, it was the appeal of having me at his mercy with my naked and trembling flesh positioned ready for his punishing hand. He was aroused by the visual and tactile stimulus which fed his need for dominance and control. In comparison, my own fascination with submission and punishment seemed positively tame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I suppose we’re well matched, although the spanking only became a part of our bedroom fun and games after we’d been together for some time. As I say, it wasn’t something we’d ever talked about; somehow we just fell into the way of it. I’ve since said to Matt that it seems incredible that our sexual fantasies mesh so neatly but he claims there’s nothing to be surprised about. According to him, most people are turned on by the idea of a spanking and, as I like to be on the receiving end, there was always a fifty-fifty chance that I’d end up with a partner ready and willing to oblige. I’m not so sure about that line of reasoning myself, but I never found any difficulty in providing Matt with an excuse to deliver a few firm slaps across my squirming backside and that usually served as a prelude to a bout of hot sex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;There was always something I could do at bedtime that was guaranteed to get on Matt’s nerves. He doesn’t seem capable of settling down to a good night’s sleep if the bedroom isn’t in apple pie order, whereas I’m more inclined to fling my clothes to the four winds and sort out the mess at some unspecified later date. He’s positively neurotic about the state of the bathroom. He’ll never permit me to leave sodden towels in the bath or on the floor and, when he’s really in a bossy mood, squeezing the toothpaste in the middle and leaving the cap off is sure to bring out the worst in him. For the most part I indulge his eccentricities and make a genuine effort to clear up after myself. I even try to leave the bathroom as he would wish to find it. But you can see how easy it was to provoke him into punitive action and the best of it was that, if I gave Matt an excuse to spank me, it always got him in a frisky mood. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Then there came the day when he was genuinely angry with me. I could tell because his whole demeanour changed. I know I’ve described him as bossy but that’s not fair; he’s normally the most accommodating of men. But this time there was no answering grin when I tried to make light of what had happened. Instead there was a steely sparkle in his eyes and his normally responsive features were set in a rigid expression of censure. My lame excuses and feeble jokes died on my lips and I looked at him in wide eyed alarm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“It wasn’t that serious, Matt,” I assured him frantically. “The garage says it’ll only take two or three days to fix.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I don’t care a damn about the car, Joe,” he exclaimed with unaccustomed vehemence. “You could have been killed.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I wasn’t going very fast,” I pointed out, unwisely. “I was never in any real danger.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“The speed you were going doesn’t matter,” he shouted. “Not in those conditions. You were shivering with shock when I got to you. Your body knew you were dicing with death even if you’re trying to make light of things now.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I’d have got away with it if there hadn’t been a lamppost in the way.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt was unimpressed by my increasingly desperate attempts to deflect his anger. He did make a visible effort to bring his temper under control but he still looked appallingly grim. “And if the car had skidded the other way you’d have gone into the path of a lorry,” he insisted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I could hardly deny the truth of what he was saying. He’d been at my side within minutes of my call and had witnessed the scene of the accident for himself. His office isn’t far away and he must have run all the way there on icy pavements. Given the state of the roads, and the blockage caused by my car obstructing the carriageway, the traffic was gridlocked. The lorry driver had abandoned his vehicle and was helping one or two other motorists who were trying to disengage the bonnet of my car from the lamppost. I was too shaken up to offer any assistance and they were finding it difficult to maintain a firm foothold on the impacted snow as they tried to shift my vehicle out the way. Matt knew just how lucky I’d been to avoid skidding into the path of the oncoming heavy goods vehicle; he could see where it had come to rest only feet from my crumpled car.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I’m sorry,” I offered as a quick and convenient phrase to bring to an end a tense exchange and placate my seething partner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“What for?” he countered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;For a moment I didn’t think he meant the question seriously but it soon became clear that he was waiting for an answer. “For crashing the car?” I ventured with that rising intonation which turns a statement into a question. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I saw him take a deep breath before he replied with studied calm. “I’ve already told you, Joseph, that I’m not bothered about what happened to the car. My sole concern has always been for your safety.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;He gave me a few moments to rethink my response but, by that stage, my brain had shut down. I just stood there miserably, hating the way the conversation was going but powerless to come up with an acceptable answer. I hung my head to avoid having to maintain eye contact and, the next thing I knew, Matt’s arms were around me and he’d pulled me into a crushing embrace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I could have lost you, love. A head on impact with that lorry might have killed you.” I heard his voice catch and his lips brushed my forehead. “I’m sorry that I shouted at you just now,” he added quietly. “It was just that you gave me such a fright. I didn’t know what I’d find when I got to the scene of that accident. I don’t even remember how I got from the office to the roadside.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I put my arms around his waist and hugged him in silent understanding and sympathy. We stood leaning against one another for a long moment, each drawing comfort from the other’s love and reassurance. But when I lifted my head and ran the tip of my tongue invitingly along Matt’s jawbone he gently pushed me away. “Not now, love,” he said kindly, “we’ve got some unfinished business to sort out, remember.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;He pulled out one of the kitchen chairs and invited me to sit down, before taking a seat on the other side of our small pine table. “It’s clear you haven’t thought about what you might have done differently, Joe,” he said quietly, “so let me go first and tell you what I’m upset about.” I must have had some inkling of what was coming because I visibly flinched, although I managed to hold my head up and look him in the eye throughout his damning recital. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“When we heard the weather warning on the radio this morning,” he began, “I was under the impression that we agreed not take our cars out. The police were urging drivers to make essential journeys only which is why I walked to the station to catch the train and you said you could work from home. In fact, you promised me that you would spend the day at home. Am I remembering our conversation correctly?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I ran out of cartridges for the printer, Matt. I thought I’d be fine driving into town and there’s that car park right behind Rymans.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Did you or did you not promise me that you’d spend the day at home?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Well..... yes, I probably said something like that this morning but the roads are usually clear by lunchtime so I thought it wouldn’t do any harm to pop out.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Wouldn’t do any harm or wouldn’t come to my notice? Does a promise mean so little to you, Joe?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“No... I mean..... I don’t know. It’s just a figure of speech, Matt. I didn’t swear on the Bible or anything.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“There’s no need to raise your voice, Joe. I’d never ask you to swear on the Bible and you know it. As far as I’m concerned, a promise is a promise and I would always accept your word as binding. Don’t you believe that the promises we make to one another are meant to be kept?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I suppose so,” I conceded reluctantly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“If I’m honest, I have to say I find it hurtful hearing you say that a promise made to me is no more than a figure of speech to you.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I didn’t say that.” Matt looked at me quizzically and I hastily amended my comment. “I didn’t mean it to come out like that. You’re getting me all confused. I don’t know what I’m saying.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Calm down. I’m not asking you trick questions. I’m just trying to be honest with you about my own feelings.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Are you angry with me?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt took longer to think about his answer than I was expecting. “I can’t be angry with you, love,” he said finally. “I’m just so relieved that you’re alive and uninjured. I am angry that you risked your life though, and for a paltry ink cartridge. I’m angry that you’ve shown such a cavalier attitude towards your own safety and your promise to me. And I’m very disappointed that you seem unable to see what you’ve done wrong or to acknowledge the breach of trust between us.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It was the sadness in Matt’s tone which reached me when his anger had simply washed over me. As he spoke of his disappointment my resistance crumbled, although I’d never really been resisting him. I’d just been concocting more and more fanciful excuses to justify my behaviour to myself. In truth, I knew, from the moment I left the house that I was taking a dreadful risk. The temperature was still below freezing, even at midday, and the roads were covered in sheet ice. I’d never have ventured out just to complete a print run for work but I’d promised to produce fliers for the pub quiz and, as always, I’d left the task to the last minute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I dropped my head in my hands and pressed my fingers into my eye sockets as if the pressure could free up some obstruction in my brain. Surprisingly, the gesture did seem to get me thinking more clearly and I managed to whisper the truth behind my cupped hands, “I knew it wasn’t safe to take the car out.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“What was that, love?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I was forced to make my admission more audibly. I dropped my hands and looked Matt in the eye. “I knew it wasn’t safe to take the car out,” I said, trying to suppress the slight tremor in my voice. “The minute I saw the state of the roads I knew, but I just decided to take the risk and hope I could get away with it.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“You did get away with it, love. You walked away unscathed and the insurance company will pay for the car. I’m just so grateful for your lucky escape.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I’m sorry, Matt. I’m really, really sorry. I should never have left the house, especially after I promised you I’d stay here. And I did take my promise seriously, it was just that.... I don’t know... I managed to put it to the back of my mind, sort of conveniently let myself forget about it, I suppose. I’m so sorry. I feel dreadful about disappointing you and... and so guilty for giving you such a fright.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Thank you for saying sorry, Joe. I know you’re sincere this time and it means a lot to me hearing you acknowledge your fault. I’ll gladly accept your apology but you’re going to have to do more to make amends. We don’t have conversations about safety for you to conveniently forget all that’s been said as soon as you want to do something we’ve agreed is too dangerous. I want to make very sure that you won’t pull a stunt like this again.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“What are you going to do?” I asked with apprehension. Matt had never before punished me for real but I knew at once that he intended to exact a stiff penalty for my disobedience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I think you need something to help you think twice about breaking your promises and taking foolish risks. It’s too easy to say sorry, Joe, and then forget all about it until the next time.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“There won’t be a next time,” I assured him earnestly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I intend making very sure of that and I think a good spanking will serve as a firm reminder.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“What do you mean?” I asked, playing for time as I felt panic rising.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“You know what I mean, Joe; you know how this works. You drop your pants and bend over my lap and I spank your bare bottom until I’m sure you’ve learnt your lesson.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Now?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Of course, now. We don’t want to drag this out any more, do we?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Here, in the kitchen?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Well, we’re certainly not adjourning to the bedroom. This isn’t going to be a play spanking, Joseph; make no mistake about that. You’re going to be paying in full for your error of judgement and, trust me, by the time I’ve finished you’ll no longer be feeling guilty.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I got up slowly and walked around the table to Matt. He’d drawn his chair back to create space around him and I went to stand miserably at his side, waiting for instructions. When none were forthcoming I put my hand to my belt and began to fumble with the loose end which I’d threaded tightly though its leather loop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It seemed so wrong to be doing this in cold blood, in broad daylight and in the sterile surroundings of our kitchen. I was bitterly embarrassed at the prospect of baring myself for punishment and the thought of lowering myself across Matt’s lap made my stomach churn with a mixture of dread and shame. As my hand moved to the belt buckle my nerve failed and, with sudden determination, I said, “No. I can’t do this, Matt.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;He looked at me for a long moment, gauging my resolve, and then said without condemnation or rancour, “It’s your call, Joe. If you don’t want to go through with this, for whatever reason, I’m not going to force you. We’ll find some other way to sort this out.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“How?” I demanded. “I’ve hurt you, disappointed you and made you angry. How are you going to deal with that?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“The same way everyone else deals with hurt, disappointment and anger. I’ll get over it. But don’t think you’re escaping a well deserved punishment,” he added firmly. “I said I was going to make damn sure you never do anything like this again. Rest assured; you’re not going to be driving that car, except with my express permission, for at least a month.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I nodded my acceptance. In the circumstances it seemed like the best I could hope for. Matt stood up and pushed his chair back under the table. “Let’s make a start on dinner,” he said briskly as though the previous conversation hadn’t taken place. “What do you fancy eating tonight?” I didn’t fancy anything but when Matt suggested a chicken stir fry I agreed and set to work chopping the vegetables into fine strips. If I didn’t eat as much as usual, Matt made no comment and eventually we moved to the sitting room to watch television. He turned to the football which I could watch without having to follow any plot or dialogue but even so, I was unable to respond sensibly to his occasional observations about the game. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;We were sitting side by side on the sofa and when the match went into half time Matt put an arm round my shoulder and pulled me against him. “Stop chewing on yourself,” he said kindly. “You made your decision and I respect it. You’ve accepted an alternative penalty. It’s done with, dealt with, forgiven and forgotten. Move on.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I can’t help it,” I said glumly. “I still feel guilty and now I feel like a wimp as well.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Don’t be silly. You’ve got nothing to prove and nothing to feel bad about. I offered a spanking as one way for us to deal with your misbehaviour. I quite understand if you don’t feel able to accept correction administered in such an intimate way. I shouldn’t have sprung it on you without prior discussion. I assumed too much based on what we’ve already done and I’m sorry that I put you in the position of having to refuse.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“You don’t have to say sorry. I can take it..... you know I can.... I like.... sometimes....” I trailed off. As I’ve said, I never find this an easy topic to talk about but Matt seemed to know what I was trying to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Hey, what we do in the bedroom is something entirely different. There’ll be no changes there.... unless you’re telling me that you don’t like getting your cute little bottom warmed.” Matt laughed and I couldn’t help but grin in return, although I knew I was blushing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“No, I’m not saying..... It’s not that I don’t like.... I’m okay...”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I thought I’d read your reactions correctly,” he said with obvious relief. “But I do think there needs to be some sanction for what you did today, something to make you feel you’ve paid the penalty and to put things right between us. Believe me, Joe; I’m not letting you off lightly.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Oh, I know that. Am I permitted to ask in what circumstances I’ll be allowed to drive the car?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Of course. If I’m not available to drive you myself I’ll give permission for essential journeys.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“So I need to ask you every time I leave for work?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Oh, you won’t be driving to work. You can use public transport.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;That came as a nasty shock but I knew there was no point stating that I’d have to take two buses as well as the train. Matt knew precisely how difficult it was to get to my office by public transport. He also knew that I’d have to get up an hour earlier in the morning if I couldn’t do the journey by car. For that reason alone I would have been better off taking the spanking and getting my punishment over and done with. But that wasn’t the reason why I was feeling so unhappy about my hasty rejection of corporal punishment nor was it the reason why I’d spent the whole evening torn apart by conflicting emotions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The television screen showed the players coming out of the tunnel for the start of the second half and Matt turned his attention to the game. I excused myself to go upstairs to the loo and then went into our bedroom to think through the situation on my own. I was surprised when Matt didn’t come looking for me but I think he recognised that I needed some time to myself. I sat on the bed and tried to make sense of my feelings. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I was already coming to the conclusion that I’d made a dreadful mistake. I’d panicked when faced with the frightening reality of a punishment spanking but on reflection I knew that I’d passed up the opportunity to give Matt a tangible demonstration of my remorse. He’d just apologised for springing an unacceptable penalty on me but, in reality, he understood my reaction to spanking better than I did myself. I suppose our bedroom games had given him ample opportunity to study my response to the power exchange and they’d led him to believe that I would submit willingly to his discipline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt had been dead right. The only thing he’d misjudged was the crippling effect of my cowardice. If I’d just been a bit braver things would have been back to normal between us and I’d have been feeling a lot better. I would happily have watched the football sitting on a sore bottom just for the relief of feeling comfortable in my mind. Matt had tried all evening to cheer me up but I was still consumed with guilt and overwhelmed with regret that I’d rejected the one sanction guaranteed to set everything to rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It took me a while to figure out the way forward, although the solution was actually staring me in the face. I just had to find the courage to face up to it. I paced the bedroom floor, struggling with one of the most difficult decisions of my life but once I’d made up my mind the newfound sense of calm convinced me that I was doing the right thing. By the time I came downstairs, the football was over and I could hear Matt in the kitchen loading the dishwasher. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I went to stand hesitantly just inside the kitchen door and when he looked up from his task I took a deep breath and launched straight in. “I shouldn’t have refused the spanking, Matt. I deserved it and I don’t think I’ll feel right until I’ve paid for my faults over your knee. Please, can we go back to where we were this afternoon?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt looked at me steadily. “Are you sure, Joe? You were pretty certain you weren’t ready for this. Has your change of heart got anything to do with having to use public transport to get to work? Because, I’m telling you now, you’re not having unrestricted use of your car, no matter what penalty we decide upon.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“It’s got nothing to do with the car, Matt, I promise. I just want to feel I’ve paid for what I did to you. I want to put things right between us. I want to go to bed feeling better, even if I’m feeling sore.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“You’ll be feeling sore alright. If this is really what you want to choose, I’m not going to go easy on you. You do understand that?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Yes, Matt. Please, do it now. Don’t make me wait any longer. I’ve had to nerve myself to get to this point.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt looked hard at me and I held his gaze, praying that he could read my determination and wouldn’t be put off by my apprehension. I don’t know what he saw in my expression but it seemed to stiffen his resolve. He pulled one of the kitchen chairs into the centre of the room and called me over to his side. This time he made it easy for me, reaching up to unfasten my trousers himself and pulling them, along with my underpants, down to my knees. That only left me with responsibility for lowering myself across his knees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;That proved a more difficult task than I was expecting. There was no firm mattress to take the weight of my torso and, as I laid my mid section across Matt’s lap, my head and shoulders descended at dizzying speed towards the floor. I was immediately conscious of his powerful thighs pressing into my belly and I tried to take some of my weight on my limbs. I placed the palms of my hands on the cool tiles and tried to brace myself as I scrabbled to gain purchase with my toes which just reached the floor. My body was tense with anxiety and I was ashamed at my inability to control the trembling in my legs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;At once Matt’s left arm descended across my back and his hand curled tightly round my hip as he pulled my whole body more closely towards his own. It made me feel supported and secure and I stopped worrying about sliding off his lap and turned my thoughts to the punishment I would have to endure. When his right hand touched my bottom I flinched reflexively but he was just running his hand around the curve of my buttocks in what felt like a caress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Relax,” he said. “There’s no need to get yourself into such a state. Breathe normally. I’m not going to kill you.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I realised that I was taking short, shallow gasps which were making me light headed and I had to make a conscious effort to breathe more slowly and deeply. As I did so, my panic subsided and the tension drained from my muscles. Matt must have felt my body go limp across his lap because he lifted his hand and asked, “Ready?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I just nodded and then, realising that he couldn’t see my gesture of assent, I managed to utter the yes which sealed my fate. The flurry of blows which descended quite took my breath away; the sound alone was alarming and the sting was more intense than I’d ever experienced. I realised for the first time how careful Matt must have been when we were playing. I’d had no idea of the power which resided in his right hand and before long I was writhing and squirming across his thighs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;At one point I got a merciful break from the onslaught while Matt lifted my body a little further forward but he was merely bringing my sensitive thighs into range of his punishing hand and, by the time he called a halt, I was ready to promise anything just to escape further chastisement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I lay across his lap for a while, catching my breath, wiping the tears from my cheeks and trying to adjust to the burning pain which permeated my buttocks and thighs. As soon as I tried to right myself, Matt assisted me to my feet and then held out his arms to offer me a hug. I stepped willingly into the comfort of his embrace, lent against him and laid my head on his chest. He murmured words of reassurance and forgiveness, and as I reconnected with the calm centre of my being, my spirits began to lift. Despite the blaze in my backside, I was happy again. It felt like a weight had been lifted from my chest and I could breathe freely for the first time since the accident.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The act of bending to retrieve the clothing bunched around my ankles made me wince and, once dressed, I slipped my hands behind my back and cautiously rubbed the afflicted area. I could feel the heat coming off my flesh through the fabric of my trousers and I jiggled my bottom and jumped up and down on the spot a few times in an effort to lessen the pain. Matt watched me sympathetically and then suggested we move to the sitting room where I could lie down on the sofa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Are you alright?” he asked anxiously when I was lying full length on my side. “Tell me how you’re feeling.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I feel like I’ve paid the price for my broken promise and for my stupidity,” I answered honestly. “I feel like I’ve really shown you how sorry I am for frightening and upsetting you. I feel pretty sore but I’m less stressed now than I’ve been all evening. My one regret is that I didn’t have the courage to take what I deserved right from the start.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Don’t say that, Joe. You’ve shown tremendous courage and I’m so proud of you. It’s no easy thing to submit to physical discipline, to lie still over my lap and take a tough spanking.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I was too much of a coward to take it first time round though.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“That wasn’t cowardice, Joseph,” said Matt with emphasis. “It took great bravery to say no to me when you weren’t happy with what I was proposing. I admire you for having the courage of your convictions and my only regret is that I didn’t discuss the role of discipline in our relationship in less charged circumstances.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“What do you mean?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I should have asked you about it before today. We could have talked about my expectations and explored your feelings in an atmosphere of calm. Then we would both have known where we stood when it came to the crunch.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“And I’d have died of embarrassment well before that, Matt. You know how uncomfortable I am talking dispassionately about such things.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I need to know how you feel about this, Joe. I’m never going to punish you without your consent.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“You know how I feel, Matt. We’ve acted out this scenario often enough in the bedroom. You understand how my mind works; you knew a spanking would make me feel I’d paid the penalty and been forgiven. Sometimes I think you understand me better than I understand myself. You got everything right today. It just took me a little while to see it. You never tried to force me. You did nothing without my consent.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Are you sure? I’d hate to feel I manoeuvred you into something you’ll come to regret.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I’m sure, Matt. I trust you and I know you’ll always listen to me.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I swear I’ll never abuse that trust, Joe, and I hope you’ll always feel able to tell me how you’re feeling.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Matt was looking at me with such an expression of love and sincerity that I just held out my arms to him. He stood up in response to my invitation and came to sit with me on the sofa. I shifted my legs to make room for him and he bent down and kissed me long and hard. When he spoke again it was in a lighter tone, although he was asking a serious question. “So I have your consent in principle to punishment spankings for serious offences?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Only in principle,” I stipulated. “In practice I have no intention of ever rendering myself liable for a second dose from your iron hand.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I’m glad to hear it. I never want to experience another day like this one.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“So when do I get the car back?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“I’ll reduce your grounding to one week, starting from the day the car is repaired. And you can pay the excess on the insurance policy out of your savings.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“That’s not fair!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“Care to commute that to a spanking?” he asked with a deceptively casual air.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;“No thank you,” I replied hastily. “I’ll pay the excess.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;~*~*~*~*~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-7681841134618881739?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/7681841134618881739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-beginning.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7681841134618881739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/7681841134618881739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-beginning.html' title='In the Beginning'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-5912502634593853139</id><published>2011-03-27T08:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:43:11.645-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traffic'/><title type='text'>What Was is No Longer</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Title: What was, is now no longer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;Author: Carol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;Warning: No spanking, A Top getting the wits scared out of him&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;All mistakes are mine sorry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the March 2011 Tea Room Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;Traffic was at a dead stop; someone said there had been a bad accident at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;intersection. I parked my car where I could, and got my medical bag. I figured&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;that since I am a doctor, I might be able to help out. I got out of the car,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;and walked half a block, and saw total chaos all around; one car was on its side&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;in the middle of the intersection. A police officer was trying to keep the foot&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;traffic away from the area, and I could smell gas and hot oil. I showed him my&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;medical work tag, and he let me through. When I saw the car that was smashed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;into the light pole, my heart stopped in mid-beat! I knew that car! The thought&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;of me helping went out the window; I needed to find the driver of that car. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;blood on the windshield made me sick to my stomach. I stopped another officer,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;and told him who I was looking for. He gave me a worried look, and pointed to a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;small group of people. The person I was looking for was sitting on the grass by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;a wall. He was holding a yellow shock blanket around him tightly, and had a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;blood-soaked bandage taped to his forehead; he looked as white as cotton.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;I asked the EMT his status, and was told that he was very lucky that all he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;got was a few cuts and burses; those old cars don't have the safety stuff the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;newer ones have. The driver looked up at me, as tears started to fall, and his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;bottom lip did the little quiver thing it does. He gave me a weak smile, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;held out his arms, as I dropped to my knees, and gently pulled him to me. I held&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;him in my arms, and, as his head rested on my shoulder, all I could do was&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;whisper softly in his ear that he was fine and alive; everything would be okay.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;His body was shaking, and because he could no longer hold onto his emotions, he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;let them out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;"I'm sorry about the car," he told me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;The car. I'd forgotten all about the car. I looked over at it. My mint&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;condition `63 corvette convertible was no longer what it once was; it was now&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;just a hunk of twisted metal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;"It's just a car," I told him, giving him a kiss to the forehead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;End.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5860410851299363159-5912502634593853139?l=tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/feeds/5912502634593853139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-was-is-no-longer.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5912502634593853139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5860410851299363159/posts/default/5912502634593853139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoomdrabbles.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-was-is-no-longer.html' title='What Was is No Longer'/><author><name>Tarabeth</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16316095030170884244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860410851299363159.post-6511439303144835007</id><published>2011-03-27T07:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T21:34:31.386-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Laughter and Tears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rolf'/><title type='text'>A Trip to Falls Chance Ranch</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Title: A Trip to Falls Chance Ranch or What Happens when Rolf gets Over Worked ;-)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Author: Rolf&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Written for the Tea Room 2011 Jan/Feb Three Minute Story Challenge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~ &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ~*~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;"Are we there yet?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;The driver resisted the urge to remove his hands from ten and two and strangle&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"&gt;his partner. It wasn't because his blood pressure and overall health wouldn't&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14
