"What if body sprays actually worked like in the commercials?"
It was almost time for seventeen-year-old Jason Clipper to head out for school. Summer vacation was one week away, and the last thing he wanted to do was get detention, especially if it fell on the last day of classes,...
"Steph wanted something sweet for Halloween, but it wasn't candy."
It was not a good day. It was the afternoon of Halloween, and just hours earlier my sort of girlfriend, Lisa, had told me that we were over. I should have seen it coming; we didn’t really connect like most...
"She needed to keep her job, he needed something else."
Mike’s night was falling apart.“But honey, this is supposed to be a romantic evening with,” he struggled to phrase it with finesse, “an intimate ending. How are we supposed to do that if you end up falling asleep before I...
"What Harper wants, Harper gets"
The final bell rang as teacher Marcus Jackson was putting tests into his briefcase to grade over the weekend. It was Friday, so all of his students fled out of the classroom like it was on fire. He got a...
"He wanted his stepsister, but he got his stepsister AND her best friend!"
"Becky!" Eighteen-year-old Phil Dane yelled at his seventeen-year-old stepsister. "What the fuck is your problem?" He steamed."I don't have a problem," she merrily replied. "I got the last slice of pizza, so I’m good," she said as she licked the...
"After years of teasing, Michael was going to get what he needed from his stepmom."
When I was fifteen my mother left my dad and me. It wasn’t her fault; my dad was such a hound dog. As much as my mom and I wanted to live together, she told me that she had almost...
"He thought he was going to help teach her to fit in. Instead he taught her something very different."
While most teachers, students and other school staff were enjoying the last day before classes started, I, teacher Philip Caan, was waiting in my classroom to speak with a student I had met at the end of last term. Harper...