"Riley can't sleep so she joins her brother on his bunk"
It was only much later that Riley's shy voice broke the silence."Chris?" she asked."Yeah?""Can I... Do you mind if I sleep with you tonight? I can't sleep."A long pause."Chris?"More silence.Riley suddenly felt foolish and blurted out, "I mean, only if...
"Bitchy seventeen-year-old Shannon spends the summer with her cousin and their lopsided relationship takes a drastic change just a few days into their hot, sweaty, summer job."
The irritated blonde girl deliberately smacked her lips together as she chewed her gum. She was angry but somehow she managed to look even cuter when she was. It was that very rare level of cute that let her get...
"Chloe and Jenny follow through on the sexual experiment that Gina proposed."
The next Sunday morning, I went through the usual routine of going to Mass and then having lunch with my family. I wished I could call Gina for some encouragement to calm my nerves a bit, but I knew neither...
"Clare's backstory..."
It is 1987, the last Sunday in August, and my arm is around Brenda. She is my new bull lesbian girlfriend and my first openly gay relationship. But my life is complicated. I am standing there by the apartment block’s...
"Lindsay goes to Palm Springs with Donald."
“Lindsay,” Donald said her name softly. “We need to talk. Please, let me explain.”Blonde hair swayed against her shoulders as she shook her head no. “I don’t want to talk.”“I was scared, I was petrified. I didn’t know what to...
"In the early 1970’s, Chloe starts her sexual coming-of-age with two of her female friends."
The Sexual Revolution? I guess it had been around for a while by the early 1970s, but it didn’t seem to offer much to a working-class, rather ordinary-looking girl like me. By the time I was sixteen and approaching the...
"The sisters give a dinner, and Grace gets Tiny"
I don’t think “Food porn” was a thing in 1969, but California’s food culture was awakening just as Ella, Alice, and I were. Ella’s Momma was a legendary home cook who also loomed large at home and in the kitchen...
"Lindsay learns it's not all fun and games being a sex worker."
“Well, well, well. Lookie what we have here, will you?” Kenzie was ready to captivate in a pair of dangerously short denim cutoffs that were rolled up even higher and a pink tank top with the telltale sign of a...
"Eighteen-year-old Lindsay leaves home against the wishes of her family and takes a controversial job."
“What the heck am I doing?” The troubled grimace on Lindsay Anastacio's face belied her youthfulness as she gazed at the eclectic, Spanish-style house. She twisted and plucked at her fingers and did her best to suppress any thought of...