Hotel Cuba

[...] . If everything crashed we would be in big trouble. I never expected to be back in Staten Island so soon and here I stood in Romano’s goliath living room lost in a sea of white [...]

[...] her car I saw my kids in the window. “What the Hell?” “I’m staying in Staten Island this weekend. I don’t want to be around you.” “But you told me to come [...]

[...] drunk and she appeared limp in his presence. Romano tended to think all the women of Staten Island were his for the taken. I stared at her and then at him. “What do you think?” I [...]

[...] am aware. When did you hear this?” “Last weekend at dinner.” “Dinner where?” “Staten Island. Kristina’s house. Where do you think I’ve been all this time?” “Romano’s [...]

[...] was deeply disconcerting. Would I be a pawn? Was my importance being diminished? And with a strip club came a criminal element that I was obviously quite aware of; I just hadn’t given enough proper [...]

[...] Plandome bedroom. To each their own. Most guests came to the Circus for a glorified trip to a strip club and the level of erotic behavior varied, but there was an assumed guarantee of complete [...]

[...] foreboding evening. No matter how strong a marriage, a husband working with, or now owning, a strip club, was a recipe for disaster. Temptation is often more powerful than willpower or even loyalty [...]

[...] come home.” “I did yes. I didn’t tell you to come home so you can sneak off to a strip club with a bunch of drug addicts.” “Where in Staten Island?” I asked accusingly. “ [...]

[...] . I think I smelled. I know I smelled. The booze was oozing out. Then I saw Melissa and Jason Meriwether. I didn’t see them at first glance but here they were, still as statues in the row behind me. [...]

[...] in our little world as Carrie turned on the television. I was about to ask more about what Jason Meriwether thought of all of this when I immediately began wondering about the status of their marriage [...]

[...] quietly, understand.” Kabir nodded his head. I stared into a mirror by the door. Jason Meriwether’s face was staring back at my haunted reflection. I took a moment to focus on the [...]

Debut novelist and Speaker explores the psychology of fantasy In the cautionary tale, Cuba After Dark, B. White shows us why the forbidden is so erot [...]

Fantasy is in our DNA. Monogamy is not.  Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that men are more likely to have extramarital sex, partially due t [...]

In a three part series we will be discussing the bi-products of sexual fantasy.  Each segment will explore the good, the bad and the ugly through the [...]

[...] the book, Cuba After Dark, explores fantasy through its two fictional characters, Don and Carrie Nightengale, the blog The Psychology of Sexual Fantasy takes a different approach — an intellectual [...]