Dating after a BAD divorce, is there anything harder or more heartbreaking? When you're a man of a certain age, you come to realize certain things. Like the fact that widowers are considered cooler than divorcees in today's dating game, and older guys appeal only to younger chicks with daddy issues, them and young women seeking sugar daddies. I'm not rich or...
When couples tell people about how they met, I sincerely think they embellish things a lot. Seriously. Everybody's got a lousy story about meeting at a mall or restaurant, either that or they talk about a romantic setting like a beach or a park. Me? I met my future wife inside a porno store in downtown Ottawa. My name is Khalid Hussein, not to be confused wi...
The wind was growing stronger, coming over the little skiff's port beam now in gusts over thirty knots, and the old fisherman working the worn wooden tiller looked back over his left shoulder at the wall of black cloud that had been chasing him since noon. He cast a practiced eye on the approaching headland, then looked down to measure the color of the water...
Yellow Cat and the Black Syrian Ministry of National Security Kingston, Jamaica 4 pm Renowned criminologist DOCTOR LARE GOODNITE had been summoned to a meeting at the offices of the Ministry of National Security. A 43 year old attractive brunette ...she wore a baggy white business suit and low heeled black leather shoes..her large handbag slung over her rig...
Adara Hussein had arrived in London only days earlier, a Syrian refugee she was given asylum as her husband Mohammed, and her three children had been given asylum in Germany having fled from the civil-war, and the rise of Islamic State. Their family was split up on their way to refugee camps in northern- Kurdistan, Adara was torn apart from her family. Her h...
Over the past years, my work has taken me more or less frequently into the Middle East, giving me a chance to see different countries and experience another life culture altogether. Increasingly, I got to know the local customs and had grown accustomed to the fact that that any relation or intimacy with a Muslim woman was strictly off limits. It's not that...
The first troughs of autumn had reached Syria and temperatures slowly started to drop after a long and searing summer. One of my main projects that I was managing together with my Syrian counterparts was coming to an end and it had involved a lot of work and overtime during the past weeks. Just one more final presentation and the last finishing touches on th...
O Little Town of Bethlehem A Christmas Tale of A Pius Man Randell Schwerdt, arms dealer, occasional "interrogator" for hire, and all around unpleasant soul, awoke to having his world turned upside down. Literally. For a quick, hopeful moment, Randell had thought he would wake up any time now. After all, why would the only illumination in the area be red...
Lots of young Black men dream of bedding a hot older Black woman, and I'm definitely no exception. Been a fantasy of mine for a long time. When it finally happened, it kind of blew me away. My name is Stephen Rousseau and I'm a young Black man of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I attend Algonquin College, where I study business adminis...
They call me Al-Asi but that is not my real name it, however, reflects who I am better than my real name. For me, the name is a testament that it's possible to defy the place you are born into. I'm not an educated girl, I can barely read and write, but I'm a poet and narrator, because I know how to tell a story. The name gives a clue to my origins; I'm from...