"Can you guess where I'm from?" Janice Goetsch asked, a wry grin on her face, as she sat opposite Mamadou Saraki inside the Carleton University library. They were on the third floor, the so-called quiet floor, and instead of working on their Death Penalty: Opposite Viewpoints assignment, they were bantering while a fresh sheen of snow blanketed campus, and t...
My name is Samuel Xavier. Also known as Brother Samuel. I'm a big and tall, good-looking young Black man living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. I'm a first-year student at Suffolk Law School in downtown Boston. Right now, I'm visiting the town of Detroit, Michigan. Along with the District of Columbia in Washington, Harlem in New York, Atlanta in Geor...
My name is Henderson Friedrich. A tall, good-looking young black man from South Africa. Born to African and German parents. My father Heinrich Friedrich is a German philosopher who taught at one of the major universities in South Africa. My mother Annabelle Joseph Friedrich was an African Grad student whom he dated and eventually married. Sadly, she's no lon...
INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - In 1999, overweight but pretty Abbey Rosen from Toronto takes a vacation to South Africa for a safari. This horrifies her very traditional Jewish mother, who firmly believes that Abbey should be looking for the right man to marry and start a family with rather than jetting off on vacation and into the dangers of the African bush....
These days, I feel so damn tired of all the crap I've got to deal with. Life in Canada sucks, man. Brother Samuel here. I'm here for Grad School at Carleton University, having left my beloved city of Brockton, Massachusetts, far behind. I can't stand the city of Ottawa, Ontario. The capital of Canada is as small as the minds of the men and women who inhabit...
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," or so wrote the illustrious Rudyard Kipling in his 'Ballad of East and West.' With all due respect to Kipling, however, the two have indeed met, and have been dancing a complicated exchange of goods, ideas and even people for many centuries now. And this cultural exchange applies to almost all...
There's no hotter show for a teenaged girl this year than popstar heartthrob Jason Barker, and getting tickets to a one-night only performance in a major city requires serious effort, money or influence. Fortunately for Erika van Blakt, student at the prestigious Sutton Girls School and spoiled daughter of a multi-millionaire mining magnate from South Africa...
Malika Bandung woke up and stretched luxuriously as she sat on the bed. Lying next to her, Calvin Geobisa slumbered. Malika looked at Calvin, who slept peacefully, and she allowed herself a smile. Calvin looked none the worse for wear, especially given how, mere hours before, he'd sexually exhausted the hell out of Malika. Never in her fifty seven years had...
"You'll never guess where I come from," Rachel Van Boeijen said, smiling faintly. Sitting opposite her inside The Page Break, the Starbucks located inside the Carleton University library, Kinuthia "Ken" Makenga stroked his goateed chin thoughtfully. The international student from Kenya was one of the special mentors and tutors assigned to the International S...
"There aren't a lot of Vampires out there, simply because this world cannot support too many of us, it's a simple matter of, well, Vampire mathematics," Rufus Brown said to his friend, Karl O'Malley. Seated inside the Taco Zulu bar and grill in the City of Durban, South Africa, the two men bantered amid the clientele made up largely of hipsters, college stud...