Exploring Passionate Stories in "upstage company"

upstage company begins at 3:17 a.m. in a hotel suite. City glow through half-open blinds stripes her restless body. She can’t sleep, so upstage company becomes her lullaby. Slow, almost lazy circles over silk panties gradually soak the fabric dark. In upstage company, she pushes them aside instead of removing them—impatient, perfect. Two fingers, then three, stretching, curling, until the headboard thumps rhythmically against the wall. When she finally comes in upstage company, it’s with a muffled scream into the pillow, whole body shaking so hard the mattress springs sing. Dawn finds her asleep in tangled sheets, panties still twisted to the side—proof that upstage company worked better than any sleeping pill.