People are always surprising me with the shit they do, man. My name is Christopher Spence. I'm a big and tall young Black man living in the town of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. The most politely racist town in the world. The Capital of Canada. What possessed me to leave my hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, to come here? I honestly don't know. Oh, yeah. I do...
Derrick and Babs exited Bloomingdales to the parking lot and headed toward Derrick's Mercedes. Before they could reach the car, two greasy unshaven White men blocked their path. After dating for six months, both Derrick and Babs could predict what was coming. "Hey Bubba. Lookie here. This fine dressed Black man got hisself a White woman." Barbara looked at...
God, I thank you that I'm alive. Those were the words in my head at two thirty in the morning on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. I was working an overnight shift as security for one of the biggest parking lots in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Clad in a black security jacket, black pants and boots, I patrolled the five floors of the parking lot, looking for vagrants...
What's good, Fam? I'm Kelvin "K-Man" Wattford and I'm a man with a big problem. Alright, let's get certain things out of the way. I'm a Bisexual man, deal with it. I make it with females and with dudes, well, certain dudes. I don't like effeminate males, I find them annoying as fuck. Sorry, but I've got to have some standards. That's not the issue in today's...
The life of a young black man living in the United States of America can be quite an adventure. It doesn’t matter if you’re African-American, Haitian, Cape Verdean, Cuban, Brazilian, African or belong to any other group. Some experiences are shared by all black men. So it was in my father’s time. And his father before him. And so it is in my time. My name i...
My name is Meifeng Huifang. I was born and raised in the City of Calgary, Province of Alberta. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who came to the Confederation of Canada in the early 1980s. These days, I'm studying Biology at Carleton University in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. With all the weird turns my life has taken lately and what I'm learnin...
My life in Canada is getting stranger by the minute. That's okay, though. I am dealing. Bernard Lamont here. The big and tall, openly bisexual Haitian guy who moved to the metropolis of Toronto, Ontario, from the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. The summer of 2010 is here. I'm finally on vacation from the University of Toronto. I want to save enough money to...
The limits of power. What an odd thing for someone like myself to ponder. My name is Anthony Saint-Pierre and I'm a six-foot-one, lean and athletic Black male in his mid-twenties living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. A proud member of the Haitian-American community. Currently, I'm a patrol officer with the Massachusetts State Police. It's my second ye...
"So, in other words you are going to give up your husband to another woman?" my friend Angela said to me five years ago. I was kind of stunned when she said that to me, I thought that she would instantly take my side in the matter. My husband of ten years had, after a lot of hesitating, came out with his fantasy. Now I thought it might be me and another wom...
I realize you don't really know me. Maybe you've read my other stories or maybe this is your first click on something I've penned. Either way, I'm going to make a simple statement you can choose to believe or not: I'm not a racist. I grew up in an urban area in America around lots of people of different skin tones and belief systems. I work in an ethnically...