title: Bedtime Stories: The short, long and tall tales of a sleepwriter
author:  Barbara Worton 
description: Barbara Worton has been published in national literary, consumer and business publications. Her story, London Calling was published in Memories Of John Lennon, Harper Collins. If I'm Talking, Why Aren't You Listening?, a play she co-wrote with Linda Dini Jenkins has been staged in New York City; Rutherford, NJ and Boston, MA.
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  **Chapter 7**
  
  
  ![flourish](images/flourish.png)
  
  
  _Tucker_
  
  
  We woke around eleven, having definitely missed breakfast. When I stirred,
  Dani inhaled and flipped, lifting her head onto my chest. She threw her top
  leg over mine, her top arm coming across my chest to my shoulder. Her fingers
  worked along my shoulder and bicep, and I stroked the velvety skin of her arm,
  relishing being close to her and pulling her in even tighter. I realized for
  the first time how wonderful it felt to wake next to the woman you loved. And
  the luxury of sleeping in was also something unfamiliar to me. Normally I
  would be aggravated with myself for having slept so late and would be jumping
  out of bed, charging into the morning to make up for lost time.
  
  
  But we lay there, wrapped in each other, not in a hurry to be anywhere else.
  
  
  We talked in vague terms about my upcoming trial, and she told me some funny
  stories about Tabby, as we drifted along our own lazy river of time. Our
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