All Natural - Flash Fiction
No experience required
In delight, we looked at each other, one on top of the other. Time flew between us like the lifetimes we've shared. Our laughter ensued while our curiosity on the other took hold. There was no pressure to get it right. No experience required. "Yes, like that David," in sync with the rhythm our hearts played. "I love it just like that." The desire to give came naturally as we explored, uncontested, the lands we embodied. Explorers and adventurers of our own design. Monica's fingers traced along my hair, guiding the cadence of the lessons. "Ouch!" I groaned. "Sorry, love, I got too carried away." She said, enticing and coy. We laughed along with the experience, teaching our hearts — we had nothing to fear.
✍️ Author’s Note
If the last story was about finding the courage to say it — this one is about what comes after.
Unrequited Confessions lived in the held breath, the shallow exhale, the words that cost something to speak.
All Natural lives in what that courage makes possible; a natural progression as the second story this month, after the start of a relationship, maybe. Slight pun intended.
Two people on the other side of fear, curious about each other without a script, without pressure, without anything to prove.
I wanted to write about intimacy without writing about intimacy, to show the glimpses rather than the whole picture. The laughter mid-moment. The “ouch” that doesn’t break anything. The way curiosity, when it carries no weight, becomes its own kind of tenderness.
What drew me to this story was the idea that vulnerability doesn’t always look like a confession. Sometimes it looks like two people deciding, without saying it out loud, that there’s nothing here to get wrong.
That they can be explorers, a little clumsy, a little carried away, and that’s not a flaw in the experience.
That is the experience.
The lesson Monica and David are teaching each other isn’t really about touch. It’s about what happens when fear finally leaves the room.
💭 A Question for You
When was the last time you let yourself be a beginner in front of someone you love?
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Studio Letters go deeper — into the creative process,
the questions I’m chasing, and the longer reflections
that need more space.
First letter drops early April.
See the Zine for All Natural Publish on March 16th, 2026