This is a Valentine's Day contest story. Please vote. * Employer faced with laying people off in economic tough times, hires more people instead. "What am I going to do? I just don't know what I should do. What am I going to do?" After spending many sleepless nights troubled by his floundering business, ironically, it was Valentine's Day, 2010, when Edwa...
The sun rose over the City of Montreal, Quebec. It found Adam Des-Bois sound asleep. The young brother yawned and stretched in his king-sized bed. The guy was honestly and sincerely dead tired. All six feet four inches and two hundred and sixty three pounds of him. In the eyes of the world, he was many things. Quarterback of the Concordia University men's va...
Bobbie slowly became aware of the pounding in his head. He felt like he had just been hit in the face by Mike Tyson. With his growing awareness, Bobbie also noticed the pain across his chest and the cold. God, he was cold! Then it hit him, his pickup truck had hit a patch of ice and he had slid headlong over the embankment to land nose down, ass up in a snow...
Martha Henderson, known to her friends as Marti, was sitting at her desk blankly staring at the stack of papers sitting in front of her. Without looking at a single one, she immediately knew what they were. They were the reason that she would sit at home alone over another weekend. They were the reason she got her relatively decent paycheck every month. They...
Elderly couple donates their land for a public park on Earth Day. Earth Day had a different meaning for Fern and Frank. Married for more than sixty years and in poor health for the last ten years, they made a pact. A man on a mission for all that Fern had done for him throughout their lives together, the cooking, the cleaning, the caring, and the loving sup...
Mary was anxious as she entered the big Southwind department store in suburban Seattle. She stopped and looked around as she reviewed what she had planned. She had never done anything like it before, but she needed the money. She took a deep breath to calm her nerves, then approached the counter that displayed expensive watches. The salesclerk asked, "May I...
Susan Biggs had been a nudist as long as she could remember. Her parents raised her and her brother to live naked from birth and they took to it like ducks to water. She lived in a nudist community and was homeschooled from Kindergarten all through 12th grade. It was a bummer for Susan to have to be dressed all through college unless she was in her dorm room...
Brother Samuel Xavier here. The big and tall, openly bisexual Black male author who has resided in the West Side of Brockton, Massachusetts for years. I feel quite sad while writing this because I will soon leave this community I've grown to care about. Simply put, life doesn't stand still. You either move with it or you're dead. My father, the charming soci...
Chapter 1 -- Rebirth by Taxi **Characters and text is protected under copyright law Out of the rear taxi window lay a semi-blurred reel of rural-esque subdivisions and housing communities, the suburbs of the suburbs, in a way. Stretches of green, broad swards of grassy field lined and punctuated by thickets of trees, nestled between stretches of quaint hou...
The name is Damon Edwards. A tall, good-looking young black man living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. And I'm surrounded by the fakest people on the planet. They're everywhere I go. At the library. At school. At church. At the Westgate Mall. Like I said, they're everywhere I go. Must be something in the water or something. As a brother who's keeping...