A runnel of rain running down a window pane
Maple sugar candy melting slowly in the heat of your mouth
A throaty new voice at the other end of the line

Cliffhangers

A feather, strips of velvet and leather

An ex

Coulda, woulda, shoulda

The cello underlying Peter Gabriel's musical phrase behind "let's take the boat out....

...wait until darkness....

...comes...."

The allure of easy money

Dangerous men
Dangerous women

A trailing fingernail in a darkened room, the steam from the shower billows hotly near cold porcelain

...What's YOUR vice, baby?