Linda and I met at church. This was one of those fundamentalist type churches with Sunday morning and evening service, Wednesday evening, no drinking, dancing, or card playing. All dating was supposed to be chaperoned or in groups. The last part seemed a little extreme, since we were both 25. I had finished my engineering degree a few years before, and was w...
My name is Steve Volmar. A big and tall young Black man of Haitian descent studying Criminal Justice at Bay State University in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. A while ago, I graduated from Brockton Community High School. This is my life right now. The life of an African-American University athlete isn't easy. I'm the only Black person on the Men's Ice Ho...
My birth name is Bethany Parker, but I recently changed it to Anisah Amal to Anwar reflect a change in my identity. I am an English-born Caucasian woman and a former atheist and former feminist who converted to Islam. It shocked a lot of my friends and family members, especially since for many years I raged against the very idea of organized religion. Now I...
It all started on a six-day field trip, in late spring, to study the geology of the Pre-Cambrian rocks in a unique forested region. It was a beautiful spot and our camp came complete with cottages and full facilities, including inviting fireplaces. I was one of the two instructors looking after 12 students in their final year of school. My colleague, and wif...
Christmas Eve. In our little town, just north of Boston, snow flew, slanting down in white slashes against the night. But everywhere were lights, electric candles in black windows, bright wrappings of colored lights around evergreens in front yards, vertical rows of lights across roof lines and planters and framing picture windows. The town was proclaiming t...
It was simple, really. Why shouldn't they walk around in their underwear? And why shouldn't I be sitting there in the living room if it pleased me, even though we were alone in the house now, just the three of us, April, October and me? It was no big deal -- if it didn't embarrass them, why should it have embarrassed me? -- I was a man of the world after a...
I have always resisted the passive (sub) role in life. I was an only child and maybe my parents didn't treat me as much like a girl as they would have if I had a brother. Anyway, I got married too soon- he was a nice guy but not sexually experienced. I think all young men should be taught by a horny older lady! before they are released on inexperienced girl...
So this is how I ended up sitting in a rented artist's space in Somerville, outside of Boston. discussing the angle of my erection with my cousin Liz and a girl from Ireland. Phone call on a Saturday afternoon. Lizzie. First cousin on my mother's side. Tall, pretty, way crazier than anyone in my own family. Grew up with her. Had a just-shy-of-incest crush...
When the rains dried up, and the famine spread over the land, many families faced extreme hardship. Her parents, with six children to feed, tried to cope the best they could, selling off their extra cattle and even taking in boarders that would pay in either money or work for their bed and meals. Tabitha was a young girl, and didn't know much about such thin...
Summer was fading, with the temperature cooling early into nightfall and the sea taking till mid-afternoon to warm sufficiently to really appeal to swimmers. This prelude to autumn was Luke Green's favourite time of the year. Right now, Luke was in paradise, alone in the family beach house with his parents and two sisters in Sydney for the weekend to atte...