"To the extent that my mind is at ease... Everything becomes easier."
Jerry wakes up Saturday morning and decides to roll over and sleep a while longer. It feels good to not have to get up. This is the first weekend he's spent in Des Moines since moving here four weeks ago....
"When the internal struggle ends.... Everything becomes easy."
The ringing alarm clock hits Jerry's head like a freight train. He rolls over and hits the off button. The only thing he wants to do is go back to sleep. His better judgment tells him it's a workday. Sleeping...
"Sex after finding your way back together again is always the best."
I looked into his eyes and saw a strange mixture of anticipation, hope, doubt and something else. Something honest and profound. Was that affection? Love? Whatever it was, it made me tremble. My muscles turned to jelly and zounds of...
"Mark remembers the beginning"
The rain begins to let up some, and even Mark’s tears are pretty much cried out. Sitting looking straight ahead, he can see the lights being turned off in the pub. It is after midnight now. How could things change so...
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
His first week in Des Moines is behind him, Jerry is back home for the weekend feeling pretty good about things overall. He's working again and he's got a place to live. Not bad progress for his first week on...
"Things begin to become clearer about Mark."
Mark’s head is against the steering wheel, tears running down his face, equal to the rain hitting against the car’s windshield. He tries calling the number on his phone for the sixth time in the last three hours. Still no...
"A trans girl with a little black bob gets an extra ride on the train"
I sit in Dylan Rey’s hair salon on Tunbridge Wells High Street and stare at my new little black bob.I worried it wouldn’t suit my face, that I wouldn’t be able to manage the upkeep, and that at thirty-six I...
"Meeting Tim's mates for the first time"
Friday arrives, and Abbie drives herself to work, telling Tim she will see him at home afterward. She is a bundle of nerves today and keeps admonishing herself to relax and not worry. She is experiencing the same worries as...
"Understanding the past"
Tim always viewed himself as an outsider. He felt everyone viewed him as a bastard in school for not having a father and wanted nothing to do with him. In truth, except for one day in school when he was...
"Tim and Abbie expand their horizons..."
As the first week of their time at the shore winds down to the midpoint of their vacation, Tim and Abbie have chatted with several other guests about things they have done. There is one that stirs them as it...