It's mid-afternoon on a Thursday in early July, day one of my Grand Canyon Gay Rafting Adventure, and a long day it's been. Yesterday Tom welcomed us individually to the hotel in Vegas then hosted an evening meet-and-greet in the lounge. Tom is tour director, openly gay, about fifty, moderately overweight, friendly, soft spoken and kind, his psoriasis partia...
Ever since the day Nilrem was born he had never seen or experienced a single instance of magic in his entire life, which was odd, because the world he lived in was allegedly filled with it. His small mountain village of Morningwoods once had a wizard, an alchemist, and a sorceress who had all been fairly powerful in their day, but when little Nilrem was born...
A two-part story of summer bliss Note: This story does have sex...it just comes near the end. No one under 18 involved. Every January for the past 15 years I have blocked out the fourth weekend of July to participate in a two hundred mile bike ride to raise money for medical research. Starting at one end of the state and ending at the other, thousands of s...
Author's Note: The world, sadly, seems to be full of those who have trouble discerning the difference between entertainment and reality, unfortunately probably exacerbated by the current spate of reality being passed off as entertainment, karaoke, Survivor, Big Brother, The Biggest Loser and the like. While it is not my intent to debate the values of such...
I had no explanation. I'd been given the best opportunity of my young career and I was honored, excited and ambivalent at the same time. The result was intimidating, humbling, entertaining and educational and, yet, I was able to pull it off anyway. My name is Justin. I was working for a regional news organization just a year after graduating from University...
Chapter 1 My Awkward Phase The greatest lie is that what happens in high school doesn't matter, because life begins in college. I pretended to agree, although I never believed it, for I was the world's greatest liar. Wannabees I was hanging out with my friends Quinn, Barb and Anne in the Newspaper Office, our refuge at University High in Los Angeles. A g...
Part One: Young and Impetuous Krissi It happens to all of us—we see that person at the store who looks just like an old friend, teammate, or lost chance at love. As we get older, it seems less important to bother approaching them to ask if they are who we think. It's just easier to let go of the past. But we are impetuous in youth. We are sure of ourselv...
Urban Oddballs: Mother, Woman, Girl Edited by Thegreat_pretender ***** At Annry and Oeno's new home, all the girls were pitching in to paint and furnish the huge barn. "Whew, that was a little intense! Thank you all for helping us get this place together!" Squeaked Annry, wiping the sweat from her brow, which was now covered in blotches of paint. "...
Everyone's got a story about how they lost their virginity, and this is mine. Like everything, I tried to do it in the most spectacular way I could imagine. And I succeeded by my wildest adolescent fantasies. I was born and bred in New Orleans, Louisiana. My once thick accent has tapered off over the years into an easy drawl. Hard to believe to the casual r...
After an erotic encounter with Nikki's little sister, David was torn between two women and decided to lay low for a while to decipher his direction. The next morning he drove Nikki home at her request and waited outside for Nikki to confirm Sonya was home and safe. On the drive back to his house David began thinking. He not only enjoyed Nikki's sexual prowes...