By Alejandro Gabatel

Introduction from the author

This is a very brief but not least interesting story that I wrote for a descriptive writing task during a MOOC of creative writing that I did back in 2015. I thought it was lost, but it appeared there. I hope you enjoy it…

My introduction

I strongly believe that my friend was hidden a secret life in his childhoods, not only comics called his attention. I must say, he has a Spanish background, thus he is able to combine the beautiful taste of the food with some forbidden sins. What we can call life. “Savoir vivre”

Oh bitter sweetness

Two unbelievably attractive women in their early forties sat across two steaming-hot, deliciously fragrant cups of freshly-brewed espresso coffee. The blonde one, a tall curvaceous curly-haired blonde who wore ridiculously tall high heels, gray spandex leggings and a black leather vest over a tight-fitting dark green blouse, laughed gracefully and told the redhead one -a freckle-faced, nearly two meters tall sculpture of a goddess cladded in nothing more but matte red leather from neck to toes- about how glad she felt now that she finally managed to steer clear from the troubled relationship she had with Gunther, her boyfriend of twenty-something years. The redhead took the cup of coffee between her left thumb and index finger with the finesse of a European princess and let out a slow and deep sigh just before taking a long sip of that frothy and scrumptious oil-like espresso that she absolutely worshipped. She kept the sip of that dark and bitter substance in her mouth for a couple seconds in order to allow each of the taste buds on her lusciously long tongue to become fully soaked in the delicious elixir extracted from those exotic, perfectly roasted and coarsely ground Venezuelan coffee beans. After she enjoyed those brief seconds of guilty self-pleasure she drew a beautiful smile on her picture-perfect face and thought to herself: «if only she knew that Gunther and I have warmed each other’s beds for the past eighteen years…»