"I was horribly late on my rent. I knew what I had to do. I was scared, but it all worked out well. ."
I am a very healthy and vibrant twenty-two-year-old college-aged girl looking for a part time work position for the summer. I am majoring in hospitality management, so I decided to try and find something either in a hotel or the...
"I became close with the Collins' very quickly, but the brothers wanted to be closer with me."
I moved into an upper-class neighborhood in California about four years ago. I lived by myself and was beginning my freshman year of college at UC Berkeley. My next-door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Collins, were the first ones to welcome...
"Lesbian torment and erotic pleasures on a distant planet."
The sky was growing lighter. I'd hardly slept. It was because of the two moons. Whenever both are visible above the horizon I can never sleep. The night sky was just like that when they took my father and brother.My...
"Porn left on a husband's PC leads to his wife's cheating."
Prologue"GOD DAMN IT!" my husband screamed at his PC."What now?" I asked."I just got another one of those fucking black screens of death. Third time today, and I'm leaving for Chicago in the morning for a week. I'm going to...
Sometimes, just sometimes When the poems deep within Are too hot to be written on the paper I want to be the poem, not the poet Sometimes, just sometimes When the thoughts are raging Feeling running wild within my soul I want to be the poem, not...
"Mutual attraction of apparent opposites leads to great fucking"
Fifty-nine-year-old Eileen Simpkins worked on the tills in a large busy supermarket. She was a divorcee and there were no men in her life at the moment.It was a Tuesday and she was serving a customer and glanced to her...
"Getting my sex life back on track"
My friends and family tell me a woman my age -- 25 -- is too young to be so cynical about “romance.” They tell me I have a lot of life ahead of me, and I should be more open...
"Willow's phone conversations with a stranger make her recall memories from high school"
Three days later, Willow sat at her office desk, head tilted and propped up against her palm. She scrolled randomly through the strange phone’s screen. There wasn’t much there, just the bare bones of icons. No message app, no contacts...
"“Can we watch?”"
"So, you're not swingers? Couples who hump other couples, or individuals?”Gina vehemently denied that categorization. “The four of us are in a mutually beneficial relationship. Claire, Scooter, Kyle, and me."“Polyamorous,” I deduced."We were monogamous, until we weren't," Claire explained, leaving...
"More revelations from Faye Millerton's career"
We were touring. The play had been written by a wonderful but almost unknown writer called James Leader. He specialised in comedies for small companies and there weren’t many smaller than this one. I’ve mentioned Dole Queue before. Instead of...
