When my sister Norika came to visit me in Oceanview, I found out that she doesn't like to wear nighties to bed. She didn't bring any with her, and even though I live with an American family, she didn't seem keen on putting one on. I had a real time of it trying to keep her from flashing the host son, Brandon, and the mother's boyfriend, Hank. Up until then,...
Hi. My name is Emi. I'm just finishing up my first year at a small liberal arts college in southern California. I'm originally from Japan, but I've been to the States many times with my family, and for the last year and a half, I have been living here on my own. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do in the future, but right now I'm really enjoying living...
The other day, I sent out a letter telling how my boyfriend and I had ... well, you know, been fooling around in the park, and how one thing led to another, and I ended completely naked there in the forest in broad daylight. That was the first time that Ryosuke and I had ever ... um ... made love, I guess, so I was pretty happy, but I was also worried that w...
Recently, I met a woman named Reiko. Like me, she was born in Japan, and is studying at Oceanview U. I got drafted to work on this project for school with her, and she invited the group of us to come over to her house, so we could get to know each other. We met at a cafe near her house—Prof. Olgren, a nice older lady who worked in Japan when she was young, m...
Emi coughed as the whiskey left a scorching trail down her throat. The bartender, dressed in plaid, gave her a knowing look. "Don't take many shots, do you?" he said with a smirk. She frowned and slid the glass back over the glossy black top of the bar. It rankled her, but she still passed him a few crumpled bills as a tip. Her eyes returned to the sheet of...
I think this all happened in the autumn of my freshman year at Oceanview U. in California. I was living in a home stay with an American family, Loretta and her two kids, while my best friend, another Japanese girl named Satomi, was living on campus in a dormitory. Satomi was not really a party person, but maybe she just hadn't gotten into it yet. She's a rea...
My name is Peter. For the last few years I've been living in Japan in a small town near Tokyo. I live alone and I have a good life over here, there are few things that I miss from England and those I have learned to mostly live without. The one thing that I still do miss is going to naturist beaches. In Japan there is nothing equivalent to that. There are on...
The next week taught Ian the fine art of patience while Emma practiced the art of evasion. Every time Ian entered the same room as Emma, she was always seen escaping out the back door or slipping covertly behind him as he was distracted conversing with another pack member. The only time he could catch her a glimpse of the woman that haunted his dreams was a...
Dwayne started hanging out with us when I was 18. He was older than us - 28 - but he came across as someone our age. Because he was older a lot of us guys sort of hero- worshipped him - me included. So naturally I was flattered when he began to spend a lot of attention on me in particular. The guys I hung out with were a little wary of Dwayne, because he w...
I was down on campus one day, when I bumped into Mark, the Japanese American boy I know from Oceanview U.'s Japanese Student Union. I don't really know him that well. I've just met him a few times at JSU, but he seemed happy to see me. He's really clean shaven with deep black eyes, and seems mild and kind of trustworthy as guys go. "Do you remember that Tai...