Power Chapter Ten: Psych Subject

"How far will Mark go to win a competition? And what will he learn about himself?"

We were paid twenty-five dollars an hour for each session. One Saturday we were told that we would be paid two hundred dollars to take a day-long battery of tests. The results would go into a database where we were identified only by...

Power Chapter Six: Auditions

"Mark gets a job as a subject for psych classes"

CHAPTER 6: Auditions Jay and I walked over to the upperclassmen men’s dorm where the auditions for life drawing were taking place. I couldn’t believe I was going to volunteer to get naked in front of girls. Jay laughed. “You’ll...

Power Chapter Seven: QA

"Mark and Jay learn from the masters"

When we arrived we grabbed cups and filled them from the keg. There did not appear to be any girls present, which was very disappointing. There were four or five upperclassmen plus Jack there. They were in a variety of...

Power Chapter Three: Brett

"Mark meets his first gay person"

“Thanks for coming with me,” Brett said. “Lots of guys your age are threatened by gays. I’m glad you’re open-minded.” I told him the truth: I had never met a gay person before in my life. He smiled and said,...

Power Chapter Four: The Sleeping Attire Party

"Mark gets too drunk to remember his first oral sex"

I dressed in jeans and a blue polo shirt to walk over to the party in the upperclassmen’s dorm. I had no idea what a sleeping attire party was, but figured it would involve some girls in their pajamas. When...

Power Chapter Five: Janice

"Mark loses his virginity"

Sarah, Janice and I returned to my dorm room where the interviewer was waiting. After the interview Sarah said she was headed for one of the upperclassmen women’s dorms. Janice looked relieved. “There’s something about her that’s strange and I’m...

Power Chapter One: In The Beginning

"Mark begins his sexual journey"

My father had been abusive to me, my three sisters and my mother. He was killed in an auto accident while driving drunk. I only went to the funeral to assure myself that he was really dead. I was 16....

Power Chapter Two: A Few of the Rules

"Mark learns a few of the rules at Anthony College"

I grabbed the brochure and went to the page where I had stopped reading. I found the part “Men are never, under any circumstances, allowed into the women’s dormitory complex.” It continued. “There are two exceptions: · If a female...