Author's notes: "Four Continents" is a story of deception and travesty. It's also a judged figure skating event. See http://www.frogsonice.com/skateweb/articles/slc-pairs.shtml for unbiased review of the pairs' long program in SLC.
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Four Continents
by sevenall
She makes the best coffee in the world. It's African, special import, and she grinds it herself. Large granules, which is extravagant and makes the taste richer, darker. It's thick, hot and luscious, overloading the senses, almost too much to take, first thing in the mornings. A drop of cream, no more, adds sweetness and contrast. The coffee is African, her lilting accent is British and her beauty is Oriental. No matter how she tells me that correct term is Asian, I still think of her as Oriental, exotic and fragrant.
She is hot and humid where I touch her and it seems unbelieveable that she doesn't love me. Her mouth says one thing. But her coffee and her other mouth say another.
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