title: The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers
author:  Brian Turner 
description: Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. The Kiss was conceived with his late wife, the acclaimed poet Ilyse Kusnetz, to whom it is dedicated. It was developed from a series he curated for Guernica.
zlib_text: “Gabe—” Bobbie’s soft voice broke off.
  He’d never before thought his thumb had a mind of its own, but evidently it did, brushing across the
  fullness of her lower lip.
  Her gaze flickered. “Let’s not forget what we’re really doing here.”
  His left hand seemed damnably independent, too, sliding more firmly around her back, drawing her
  silk-draped curves even closer to him. “What I’m really doing,” he murmured in her ear, “is trying not
  to kiss you right now.”
  Her head went back a little farther. Her long spiraling curls tickled his fingers pressing against her
  spine. “Really?”
  “Don’t be surprised,” he reminded. “You started it.” His lips closed over hers.
  
  Dear Reader,
  A few years ago, I had the privilege of sharing with three extraordinary authors the lives of Harrison
  Hunt and his four sons as he forced their hands into marriage…and happiness. The Hunt for
  Cinderella was the name of that rather magical series, and those other authors were Christine Flynn,
  Lois Faye Dyer and Patricia Kay.