The rich eroticism of the Song of Solomon "What is THIS type of writing doing in the Bible?" a shocked teen girl once asked when she came across the Song of Solomon. She had not expected to find such explicit, albeit poetic, descriptions of sexual relationships in the Bible. The Song of Solomon has been described as "pornography" but it is really one of...
This is a bit different from what I've done before, but I have been thinking about this story for a very long time. There isn't much sex, so if that isn't your type of thing, then please either move on or enjoy the ride. **************************************** Prologue My name is Karoleah Gregory. I write this record with the hope that future generation...
Birthmother's Day and the need to honor girls and women who give babies up for adoption The Saturday before Mother's Day was designated Birthmother's Day by a group of birthmothers in Seattle, Washington in 1990. "Birthmother" in this context refers to a female who gave birth and gave the child up for adoption. Holiday Insights notes, "If ever there was a...
The name is Samuel Xavier. A big and tall, openly bisexual young Black man of Haitian descent who has lived in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts, for a decade. I'm heading to Canada in a few days. I'll stop by Buffalo first to get some things squared away. I'm glad to be leaving the city of Brockton. My once-beloved city has begun to disgust me. The racism...
Just following a path of curiosity. I had fun, though it was a lot harder to put together. Hope you like it. Thanks for reading. ***** The House of Heaven 1 Mesopotamia, 2271 BCE It was in the mighty city of Uruk, the first city ever, built on the sandals of the great Goddess Inanna and the land of the first kings, where Ninkurra served in the temple of...
Yvette Seraphim is the name. I'm a big and tall, dark-skinned and big-bottomed young Black woman of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. People often say I resemble Tennis Champion Serena Williams, only taller and curvier, with more booty. I take that as a compliment. I am also a Transsexual. There, I said it. I am what I am and...
Witches and wizards never die. They are here now and are here to stay. ...And so isn't Satan. Founded in 1623 with a population of about 41,000, as taken by the 2010 census, Salem, Massachusetts is a city in Essex County of about eighteen square miles. Nearly all the homes are more than one hundred years old and there are many houses that are more than two...
What follows is the first part of an account given by a late sixteenth-century cloth merchant who claimed to have witnessed a witches' sabbath in southern Germany: While passing the night at a boarding house I was forced to take my evening meal in the tavern, where there worked a trio of most comely young serving wenches: one was blonde, one a brunette, and...
I wrote this a few years ago for a friend who had a thing about graveyards. It's a bit raw, but you might still like it. Have fun. * * * * * I remember the time she took me by the hand and led me into the kirkyard, that night. It totally took me by surprise. I had had a crush on her for a long time, and although I had taken the plunge and told her one ni...
The bus had taken us 50 kilometers east from Kraków in Poland to the museum of the holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Many buses, several taking our party and others with other groups dropped us and we walked to the iron gate crowned with the motto "Arbeit macht frei". "Three Million Jews walked through this gateway to die" lied the guide "My Grandfather was...