Daughter’s Friend, Part 1

"My daughter comes back from college, and brings an old friend of hers back around"

My only child, Claire, has just returned home from her first semester of college. It’s great to see her. It’s been a bit lonely since she left. Her mother, my amazing wife, died during childbirth so it’s been me and...

Are You Experienced?

"Getting to know the new girl"

Tranquilized by the tide's rhythmic whoosh, I'm drifting into a solar-powered nap when a cavalry of baritone chatter trumpets reveille. My head abandons its forearm pillow, radar ready to scope out the hung and the shirtless."New arrivals, two o'clock." A pack of upperclassmen - Bowdoin, probably - shucks and...

Game On

"A goody two-shoes on holiday is shocked by her fascination with the local bad girl."

**Teri**Welcome to another misty noon in Moose Bridge Harbor - the Bridge, as locals say - where the air looks as if it's been jetted from a vaporizer and even a flying volleyball seems to gather dewdrops. Blame the sleep-sucking heatwave back home in the...

Grad Party

"For eighteen-year-old Dawn, life in a small coastal town needs its diversions"

Just because Bay Regional's star senior quarterback, Reid Collins, is going steady with Lissa Brewer doesn't mean he isn't hooking up with me every Tuesday after team workouts. You'd think with all the money her folks have from owning half...

White Briefs On A Clothesline

"Journal entry for a teenager who has an erotic adventure."

Journal entry for today...I think it might be a bad idea to actually write this down since I think it's the sort of thing that could lead to big trouble. I'm home alone. No school because of some kind of...

A Summer’s Day

"A good girl explores being bad at a pool party"

  My favorite teacher, Mr. Andres, had sent me a text this morning.It read: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”A joke between us since I had taken his English literature class during junior year.He was still on my mind...

Jules

"When Jules came to live with us, little did I know..."

Four years ago, my son - Ethan, was born. We needed a babysitter for those times when we went out or would be late returning from work. We had a neighbor's girl named Jules that was highly recommended and mature...