During the past few years, my wife Sherry and I have had a normal relationship. Normal, I guess one could say is in the eye of the beholder, for what I thought was normal, Sherry found to be down right boring, uneventful and not how she wanted to spend her evenings. She decided a little spice was in order. When I think of Sherry, I think of a beautiful, sel...
And so that evening Alexis White found herself alone in a sparsely furnished office, wearing a priest's cassock, her hair pulled into a compact bun on the back of her head. She occupied the single chair in the room, which sat before a large wooden desk; the only other furniture was a filing cabinet in the corner. An ancient ceiling fan spun lazily overhead,...
"Oh baby, I absolutely love it!" Ali exclaimed, referring to my new 'do', my new shorter hairstyle. One of the things I discovered after moving to New Orleans is that the heat and humidity does not treat my hair well. Frankly, I tired of trying to do something with it every damned day, so off to the salon I went, the one that Ali uses. If there's a faggier...
Hello readers! Sorry it's been so long for those who waited and if I didn't get back to you. I recommend reading the previous installment for context, or this won't make much sense. Hope you enjoy, and any comments/constructive criticism is much appreciated! And finally, a big thank you to my editor Azure_skies! ***** From Irri's Eyes: There I was, not at...
I don't want to be a lesbian but I might not have a choice. What am I going to do? I feel like I don't know anything anymore. My name is Halima Hussein and I am a young Black woman of Somali descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. If you saw me walking around wearing my long skirt and hijab, with my Koran tucked under my arm, you'd assume I was just a...
It was around Christmas that I had broken up with my boyfriend and wasn't really looking to date anyone. My best friend Toni gave me a gift certificate to a fancy new day spa as a way to lift my spirits. She talked me taking a day off to do something for myself as the New Year's Party was later that week. I called "Natural Beauty Spa" and I gave the receptio...
Julie had been my best friend for the last four years, we met at Presbyterian Hospital where we both worked as a nurse. She was a new nurse and I was assigned to be her mentor and preceptor for the first six months of her employment. We were glued to the hip and hit it off immediately. We had so many things in common and quickly began to hang out outside of...
"Valentine's day is bullshit," Violet whined, rolling over on her back. She hung her head over the edge of Jess' bed to look at her friend upside down. "It was just invented by Hallmark to make money in that stretch between Christmas and Easter." "Read a book, Vi," Jess chided "Valentine's day has been around way longer than Hallmark—the first holiday to c...
It's Friday night, close to 11pm. We drive through the screaming black night, Jamie, Toots and I. Hardcore house music pumps from the stereo. I lay half wasted on the back seat, my legs thrown across Toot's lap. I have a cigarette in one hand, a half - bottle of vodka in the other. My face is streaked with tears and mascara, my mind numb from all the beak an...
I yelled at Connie to hurry up. We were finally getting a weekend away. Before we had married our respective husbands at least once a month the two of us would go away for a weekend and go wild! Of course we were a lot younger then. But there were times when I missed those days. The responsibilities and at times, the frustrations, that come with being a...