It was raining outside - a typical Amsterdam spring day with heavy grey cloud casting a chill gloom upon the city. A Little natural light was managing to find its way through the dirty, rain spattered windows as they rattled in their frames, carrying with it the luminous presence from the spring leaves on the trees outside that lined the canal. Inside, the r...
Sue's First Time or What the School Nurse Taught Me Sue grew up in central Florida in the 1980s. Her parents divorced when she was 12 years old, which changed life much to the worse for her and her mom, who received no money, only the house from the divorce settlement. As a result, they found themselves living in a neighborhood they could no longer afford...
Sometime during Chapter 3... Anika Garner was not having a good day. She couldn't decide which decision she regretted more--the one to come back to her old high school and help with the swing choir competition, or the one to go down the hall to the party the night before. The party wasn't the problem, she decided. The problem was when I decided to start dow...
Painting my nails, I like painting my nails, there is really nothing more relaxing than having some me time. Me time is a luxury, that I can't often afford, especially now days, there is always so much to do and not enough time to do it. I like to think of myself as an independent female, who is capable of fending for myself and who will risk everything to p...
"Felicity Carruthers?" The voice spoke with elegance and poise, and Felicity felt slightly inadequate as she looked up from her book at the dark-haired woman who spoke. Something about the air of quiet confidence and authority in her stance reminded Felicity indefinably of her mother--and her grandmother, and her mother's friends, and a whole lifetime of her...
All girls in this chapter are 18 years old and finishing their senior year of high school. -- After the eventful day in the locker room, Sarah took Britney to her house, where they immediately ran up to the bedroom. "What are you going to do to me?" "I am going to teach you to stop messing with my friends." "I wasn't messing with your friends! I was...
"I love you honey," Mildred said with tears in her eyes. Her daughter wrapped her arms around her and held her tightly in her arms. "I love you too mom," she said and wiped tears out of her own eyes. She walked her mother to the door of her room and then looked at her again. Ruby Costello gave her mother a hug and then closed the door behind her. Finally....
No matter how many years it has been, everyone remembers their days in high school. All of those times when we were permitted to be free. The final days before adulthood and responsibility. Never worrying about consequences. Living life for today and not regretting yesterday or dreading tomorrow. Each day in itself brings a new adventure. Emily believed fu...
First semester freshman year, one of the biggest challenges any relationship faces. Katy and Jenny had already faced this type of pressure before being a lesbian couple with a slight age difference. The past summer had been one of the greatest of their lives. They spent every moment together they could. Fall came and Katy went off to school, not far away, bu...
Sara was awakened by the usual sound of her loud, annoying alarm. "Damn thing." she thought, "I wish I could figure out how to set it so that the radio goes off instead of the alarm." She rolled over in her bed and hit the snooze bar, quickly glancing at the clock. 4:35. Great. Four thirty five on a Saturday morning. She gently slipped her smooth teenaged...