The ride home stayed with her for a couple of days. She scribbled down the story and submitted it to an online story portal, wondering what the reaction would be. She knew it was so very very tame compared to some of the stories she was reading on there...but it was another first step to being seen, another step back to what the new her was.
She thought of the old fantasies she'd had from when she was in her 20s, before her husband.
She remembered when she lived in a suburb of the city, standing topless in her bedroom window, the curtain at the ready for her to disappear into the darkness if anyone did dare look up at her house as she hoped they would.
LOOK AT ME.
JUST LOOK AT ME.
She remembered walking to the shops naked under a zipped-up winter coat, the excitement of knowing her secret leaving her dripping wet.
She remembered desperately wanting to set up a scene where she arranged for an unknown stranger to accost her on said walk to the shops. In her fantasy, he would pull up in a car, jump out and push her into an alleyway without saying a word. He'd pin her against the brick wall, shielding her from public view with his body as he held her gently but firmly in place by the throat. He would unzip her coat, roughly kiss her, touch her all over, pinch her nipples and stick his fingers up into her wet pussy, before abruptly walking away back to his car and driving off, leaving her dazed at what had just happened. That one kept going for a while in her head, but she didn't know how to find the right person to take part, someone who would respect her fantasy and not deviate from her plot.
She remembered the internet dating disaster when she ventured away from the mainstream ones into a more adult site and got in over her head - taking the naive risk of meeting a man at his house to talk about his claim that he could help women become more sexually confident. He told her he took them through a series of challenges including wearing a mini-skirt and bending over in front of the staff with no knickers on in a shop of his choosing, culminating eventually in him taking them to an adult cinema up north in Manchester to be fucked by random strangers. He told her about the amateur videos he'd made, the selection of 'toys' he had in the other room, and it was all just too much too soon and freaked her out...although she did have to admit she liked and reacted strongly to the pinwheel thing he ran up and down her spine...