"Can a young man really not know what he wants until he comes face to face with it?"
It was the middle of August and the summer heat hadn’t yet arrived. It was beautifully warm, and indeed, very warm if you were working, but the mind-numbing stifling heat that usually arrived toward the end of summer hadn’t yet...
"When does fondness become love? When does straight become gay?"
I’d just entered high school when my mother died. She’d had breast cancer and hadn’t caught it in time. It had metastasized to other parts of her body, and although they fought it, there was no way there would be...
"Some friendships have a strange beginning."
The house Elam had lived in all his life was built in a style called Craftsman, but it wasn’t a very good example of the true Craftsman style. Besides the living room windows that opened onto the wide front porch,...
My sister, who is a year older than me, always had good taste in boyfriends. I liked every one of them, but a few of them stand out.When I was sixteen she had one named Richard who was nineteen. Mom...
"For some, it's a long, difficult journey to find the right soul mate."
Many people said Abbott was a bad seed. Since he was a very small kid he’d gotten into trouble. He seemed to take pleasure in doing things he knew were wrong. His parents had given up on him, but that...
"If our heroes deviate from the norm, should we accept them for what they are?"
The last light of day was fading from the sky as the fire engine backed through the open door into the fire station, its spinning red and yellow lights ricocheting off the surrounding buildings. As blocked traffic began to move...
"If you have nine inches you can certainly share it with a couple of people."
Part one: Ryan's storyI broke up with my long-time girlfriend about four months ago. Things just weren’t working for us anymore. It’s a good thing we realized it before we got married.Lately I’ve been warming up to a new girl...
"A young dude finds when you join the team you can play more than one position."
Toby had three wishes fulfilled in the same week. First he qualified for the football team, second he was placed on the offensive team and third he got the position of halfback, which he felt he was perfect for. He...
"When a roving sailor settles down, he discovers unexpected treasure."
When I tell people I’m a sailor they immediately think I’m in the navy. I’m not. The same thing if I call myself a seaman. I’m one of those thousands of guys who work on cargo ships. I’ve worked on...
"Time in a foreign jail can lead to a whole new way of looking at sex."
In this instance, Buck couldn’t ask himself how he had gotten in this situation. He knew. When he came to this country he knew he was stepping into risky business. Any get-rich-quick scheme had its risks, but getting into the...