One Hit Wonder

James Messner, 37 year old writer. Bitterly divorced, comically childish. Resident of Brooklyn Heights, constant topper of New York Times best seller lists.

[james-messner]

littlemissberne :

“Does it?” Holly was being deliberately facetious now, couldn’t actually help herself. A chuckle escaped her a moment later, and then she found herself murmuring, “You’re looking into it too much.” She shrugged her shoulders very gently, a smile now on her face. “If it is, it’s the first I’ve heard of it,” she said simply, glancing around.

“Of course! People wanted a legit reason to dress up in crazy costumes and bang anyone they see. And ask for candy from strangers. So they made up this story about ghosts, and it worked.” James reasoned before breaking into a grin, well aware that the woman was just teasing him at this point. “Am I? Or am I just observant?” He insisted. “So observant, Illuminati will be at my door any moment now.”

[james-messner]

rileyperryy :

“ Oh! Yeah, uh,” She came too from zoning out, and looked up to him. “ Be honest, but you can tell how shitty cold I am, can’t you?” She asked, but shook her head, already knowing the answer while folding her arms over her chest. “ Listen, I’m a walking ice box, if they had portable strap on heaters my nipples would be in great shape.” She laughed, mostly to try and feel less embarrassed. “ Anyway, Tinder, if someone put that on their profile I’m swiping all the way right, super the hell out him.” She chuckled.

“Every person in the room can tell you’re freezing. It’s the horrors of a Halloween outfit.” James mused as the girl complained, only to laugh at her next comment. “I think your nipples are in a fantastic shape. Right outta every boy’s dreams.” He joked as he shrugged his jacket off, offering it to her. “Here, so you don’t look too awkward anymore.” James offered. “Damn, had I known, I would’ve put it on my profile before telling you. There’s no magic in the whole thing now.”

[james-messner]

rileyperryy :

“ Not exactly, have we forgotten about New Years? That’s another time to dress up and fuck.” She stated frankly. “ Oh! Unless you’re going as far as dressing as Jason and Freddy and just going at it like animals.” She chuckled at the mere thought. “ Its a fetish.” She said while pushing hair from her face, and glancing over her silk black dress. She had felt self-concious the entire night because her nips had been froze from being cold the since she arrived. 

“Yeah, but it’s a different kind of dress up. New Years isn’t the time when you can find a Pikachu hooking up with one of those Sailor Moon chicks.” James reasoned, only to grin as the girl spoke. “That’d be a damn interesting fetish. How would you even put that on tinder? Must dress like a serial killer to get me going?” He mused, looking down at the girl as she glanced down, as well. And while he wanted his eyes to linger a lot longer than that, he forced them back up to focus on the girl. “You alright there, love?”

[james-messner]

addisonbritton :

“That’s what I was trying to do there, I already knew I was terrible and you just confirmed it.” She let out a loud sigh and grabbed a champagne glass from one of the waiters passing by and basically downed the drink before speaking again. “Are you going to tell me that you didn’t judge my costume before I basically said it was trash? Don’t lie to me James, I see through you.”

“It’s not the bad kind of terrible! How dare you put words into my mouth!” James fake gasped. It was a poor attempt at entertaining himself, but it was something, and Addison could clearly take it. “Well, excuse you. I was about to say your costume is just the right amount of  sexy, but, I guess, now we’ll never know that. So, it’s all your fault.”

[james-messner]

littlemissberne :

“Hmmm, you think so?” Holly wasn’t convinced and she tilted her head thoughtfully to the left, tapping her nails idly against the glass on her hands. “I’m sure the adults do, too, because as far as I’m aware kinky sex is supposed to be fun. If it’s not, you’re probably doing it wrong.”

“Damn right I do. Think about it. It all makes absolutely perfect sense.” James insisted, downing his own glass afterwards. “Well, yeah, it’s supposed to be fun at least to one of those involved. But that’s different sorta fun than I had in mind. Unless this is actually an orgy party where everyone’s about to have kinky kind of fun.”

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Brad Pitt’s gonna do it!

[james-messner]

littlemissberne :

”Is it? Since when?” questioned Holly with a chuckle. “Tell that to comic con attendees.” A moment later she shrugged her shoulders, taking a sip of the drink in her hand. “But the latter, seeing as there’s a lot of people who definitely don’t need alcohol. Pretty sure there’s plenty out there who dress up for fun.”

“Since the beginning of time. I think it’s the real reason behind the whole thing, the ghost thing is just a cover up for this.” James offered his ridiculous explanation. It was far-fetched, but he was bored, and his creativity was getting the worst of him. “Yeah, maybe the kids dress for fun. We all know the adults are dressing up for kinky sex.”

[james-messner]

cole-brannon :

Cole nodded despite not exactly agreeing with the man. Conversations like this made him feel a little uncomfortable so he preferred not being apart of them if he had the choice. Cole had always assumed that there were many places out side of Halloween where it was acceptable to “dress up”. It was called role-play, wasn’t it? How he knew this being the inexperienced prude that he was — well don’t ask. 

“Um…” Cole rubbed his chin, blinking nervously, “well, I dunno.”

James grinned at the man, amused by the way his question seemed to make the other uncomfortable. He always enjoyed it, making people feel bad. It was part of those little things in life, after all. “I think that’s the case, yeah. I mean, what other day would you get to bang a sexy cop or a sexy criminal without getting shot? Dream come true for any kind of freaks.”

[james-messner]

nico-abrams :

“Oh, no. It’s definitely some sort of fucked up fetish,” Nico agreed, pursing her red painted lips for a moment before lifting her glass to them, taking a sip. “The alcohol just allows it to come out. We’re all kinky fuckers, even if we won’t admit it, don’t you think? I mean, when I was in college, I hooked up with a guy who was dressed as a nun for halloween. Most religious experience I’ve ever had.” 

“I knew it!” James exclaimed loudly, attracting attention from a few people around. Not that he cared, really. “Damn right we are. We’re all fucked up, twisted, and terrible beings, but come Halloween, and costumes and alcohol just brings it out. It’s like we hulk out on everything that’s wrong with us.” He mused, downing the whiskey that he had. “A nun? Was it as disappointing as everything is about their lives?”

[james-messner]

jamiecvr :

“I think people will do whatever the hell they want, when the want,” Jamie replied. He prayed for a buzz to kick in soon, anything to make this party just slightly tolerable. “What are you supposed to be, anyway?” He pointed to his costume, looking him up and down.

“Maybe in the nineties, when cameras weren’t in your face all the time. Now it’s down to being discrete.” James argued. He would’ve rather been anywhere else but here, but his agent had insisted that it was all for public appearances. Which was really why he went for a simple black suit and a black eye mask. “Me? I’m dressed as a douchebag who was forced into the party, so made minimum effort to dress up. Think that worked out?”

[james-messner]

laragrahamx :

“Not really, no.” Lara responded without thinking twice. “I have had hook up with someone while wearing a costume.” But maybe that’s just Lara and her unorthodox ideas. “I am going to go with fetish option. I mean everybody have fetishes, it’s just, some of us are more upfront about them than the others.”

“What, while it wasn’t Halloween? Do tell.” James fake-gasped. Sarcasm, at this point, was his first language, and he couldn’t really help himself any more. “Fair enough. So Halloween is the time of the year for those with fetishes but not enough self esteem to express it when others aren’t doing the same.”

[james-messner]

“Okay, so Halloween officially is the only time of the year when you can hook up with someone while wearing a costume.” James mused, despite wearing just a suit and a simple black mask over his eyes. “Think it’s the alcohol or some fucked up fetish most of us have?”

[james-messner]

addisonbritton :

“Is this the part where I ask who the beautiful person is behind that mask and somehow get them to buy me a drink or better yet make fun of some of the costumes around here? I know I’m dressed as a sexy cat but that’s because I had no time to come up with something better.”

“You could go with flirting. Doesn’t that work the best when everyone’s half drunk anyway?” James pointed out as he looked over at the brunette. His costume was no better; a simple black mask over his eyes and a suit. It was all he needed, after all. “Hey, don’t put yourself down. Sexy cat is a disturbing albeit popular Halloween tradition.”

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[wadey-wilson]

[teondraxmay]

Despite looking like an altogether young woman, Xo was still living out of boxes hair rather a convenient mix of elegant and mess thrown up and pinned in a messy bun with last nights chopsticks. Wearing a very loose sweater her shoulders were exposed to the world showing off a strap to a rather colorful tank beneath she dusted off her sketch pad before smoothing the same hand down the thigh of a tight pare of jeans that clung to her like a second skin, accentuating all the right curves in all the right places. You’d think a woman like that would have it all in whatever realm she lived in but looks could be deceiving. Dangling a high heel off that foot of hers she’d been sitting in the same spot for an hour now - drawing. Without looking up from her page she simply said the words. “Oscar Wilde once said that life imitates art more so than art imitates life. I wonder truly if there is a separation between the two or if they are one in the same..” 

[james-messner]

Barely glancing up from his notes, James shrugged. Sure, the woman in front of him was beautiful, and, any other day, he would’ve hit on her, but right now, he was simply enjoying the moment of inspiration, the chance of getting to write without many interruptions. “They’re both and neither.” He responded after a moment, once he had finished writing the sentence. “Some say art is just an expression of life. Arguing over it is pointless, when you could just create and keep them guessing.”

[james-messner]

helloveronicax :

“Well,” she began, crossing her arms stubbornly. “Guess you’re gonna have to go naked, James. I don’t have anything else fr you to wear.” Suddenly a thought popped into her head. “Or you can just go in your underwear and write TREAT on your chest. That works too,” Veronica laughed.

James frowned, falling silent as he thought Veronica’s offer through. “You know, I might just do that. Get crowned the biggest douchebag of the year, but at least I’d get a crown, right? Would go well with the underwear.”