Megan

“Our lips met and parted, and his tongue
slid deep to taste me. The sounds from the peanut gallery—choking and retching—and the tug on my robe instantly drained the heat from the encounter.
“That’s disgusting,” Kola assured me with a glare that a six-year-old shouldn’t have had.
“Why?” I asked snidely.
“Your mouth has germs,” he informed me haughtily. “That’s why you told Hannah not to lick Chilly.”
“No, I told her not to lick Chilly because the cat doesn’t like to be
licked by her.”
“He licks his body.”
“He does,” Hannah, our four-year-old, agreed with a nod. “Kola’s right.”
“But he doesn’t want you to do it,” I assured my daughter.
“How do you know?” Kola questioned.
I had to think.
Kola waited, squinting at me.
“Do not lick the cat! Nobody licks the cat!” Sam ordered when the silence stretched for too long.”
― Mary Calmes, But For You

“It's a common form of kindness here on Earth to give people food to take home with them when they leave. We even have special receptacles to carry the food in. It's called Tupperware."
-- Jory explaining leftovers to Dane”
― Mary Calmes, A Matter of Time, Vol. 1

“Something hot rolled over in my stomach. It felt like uneasiness that maybe shared a condo wall with terror. And maybe arousal lived a couple of doors down.”
― Eli Easton, Blame It on the Mistletoe