Cinnamony.

The Continuing Adventures of Eco Boy vs. Yoga Girl, a serialized autobiographical novel (fiction).

"A thousand days and a thousand thousand going-through-the-motions, and one day it all changes and the wide-eyed lover wonders how the world had ever seemed so black and white."
~ Dr. Willard Evans

Calm before the Storm.

Sweet Dreams, together.

Some girls he couldn’t sleep with.

He was all about quality sleep—hated getting woken up in the middle of the night.

Some girls, however, he could spoon with, relaxed, and not wake up ’til morning.

It had very little to do with the quality of the girl or the quality of the relationship. He couldn’t figure what made the difference, so didn’t try.

With Yoga Girl, Eco Boy slept like a dream. She was long and smooth and golden. She’d turned away from him, and after he’d returned from the bathroom he’d come to his bed to see that she was far off, on her side of the bed. He liked that.

And he looked at the stars and a bright bit of moon out the night window, sat down Indian-style on his side of the bed and meditated, in his briefs, sitting up, for a moment, and when his thoughts had settled back into the present moment he dedicated his day to the good of others, and bowed to himself.

And he laid back. And because she was so far off, unobtrusive and unneedy, he rolled over to her and spooned her, holding her, strong, much larger than she, and in her already-halfway dreamland she smiled and nudged backward into his protective warmth, and they slept dark dreams in gray sheets...

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Waylon Lewis
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