Yes, this is a true story. By the time I was twenty years old a number of things had occured in my life to more or less mess me up in the head and I had a string of years that were rather self-destructive. This is an example of one of my less-than-stellar moments. I had been twenty-one for a couple months and was doing my part to keep the profits up at the Jack Daniels distillery. My favorite drink was the JD Long Island...

I was in Phoenix on another out-of-town job and I was staying at the Embassy Suites. It's my favorite hotel chain because it's consistently clean, the breakfast is time-saving and usually good and then there's the happy hour after work. Anyhow, I'd been there a few days when this one night I'm sitting down reading the paper and a man comes along and just sits down with me. Rather bold. I looked up across the paper and loo...

After I had moved to San Francisco I had lost touch with David. Now David had been a very supportive friend in my high school years who had seen me through my parents' divorce and then he had helped me get into college. My job at the bank had really cut me off from my friends and even my family to some extent, so it was a surprise to him when I called him to ask for help after so long. I had made the mistake of my life wh...

Derrick and I were married not long after college not so many years ago. He'd been pre-med and I was completing a law degree when we'd met and only a few months later we were married. Our honeymoon as abbreviated by his school obligation to volunteer (is it really 'volunteering' if it's mandatory?) at a clinic in Bolivia for the summer. While he was there, he contracted a foul disease from the filthy, third-worlders and h...

This is just a work of fiction. It's based on a real crush I had on a real teacher who never knew what I'd felt about him. He was a truly decent guy and would NEVER have done the things I'm about to write about.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mr. Wilson was my English teacher for my freshman year in community college and was the best looking man I think I've ever met. It wasn't just his looks, it was this simmering c...

When I'd first moved to LA I thought it was going to be such a wonderful adventure! I was from a small town in the San Joaquin Valley south of Fresno called Visalia and was bored out of my mind as a kid. The chance to move to LA came up and I found myself living with a friend in Santa Clarita not far from Magic Mountain.The first year kind of sucked with working as a temp and then working at a fast food place to make ends...

Kari and I had always been a pain in the ass to each other and after our folks died in a car wreck things just got worse. I was nineteen when she got married to Don and kicked me off of the estate and I ended up in a shitty little apartment in the bad part of town. I managed for a year and then the company I worked for went into Chapter 7 and that was that. The only upside was the company lawyer told me a legal right to l...