One Among the Sleepless, a Novel, written and performed for Podcast by Mike Bennett. This novel is intended for an adult audience.

Episode 10 Chapter 8. She was all he had imagined she would be. Her hair, dark with a suggestion of red in certain light, fell just past her shoulders, framing

her face with those long, loose curls. Wayne sat on her sofa as she had bidden him to.

He wore only his boxer shorts.

Lucy stood before him in her dressing gown.

Although tied at the waist, it was slightly open at the

chest. Wayne couldn't see her breasts, but subtleties of light and shadow, the loose yet snug tolling, suggested them vividly.

Lucy looked at his lap and smiled.

Wayne looked down and saw his penis jutting up. and I love Antennae picking up any signals

Wayne nodded his hands went to the elastic waistband of the shorts but Lucy stopped

him with a curt.

Uh-uh he looked up She was slowly shaking her head from side to side.

That's my job. All in good time.

Wayne removed his hands obediently and sat still.

You said you had something for me.

Wayne nodded.

I like presents.

Wayne grinned.

Well?

Rowl? Wayne echoed stupidly.

When can I have my present?

Oh, Wayne reached for the carrier bag at his side and drew out a large and sublimely yellow banana.

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