I worked a variety of on-campus jobs to pay my way through college, but the money didn’t even pay for my books, much less spending money. So when a local ladies’ club put out an ad for dancers, I jumped all over it. I’m not much of a dancer, but for these clubs, you don’t need to be. You need a strong muscular body, the confidence to strip down to your briefs, and the ability to move to really crappy music.Fittingly, the...

Steve called me at three that afternoon. “John,” he said, “Lucy and I are going to a swing party tonight. Would you like to join us?” I’ve always loved the big bands, both the original sound like Duke Ellington and the 90s revival of swing. So needless to say, I agreed to it. “The only thing is that they tend not to let single men into the hall, but I asked them and they’re going to bend the rule for you.” Why the hell wo...

Pam was bored. She was married with two young children. She loved her family more than she could ever describe. Yet something was missing. She needed something different. Something exciting.It wasn’t something she was comfortable talking about. So she talked to her best friend, a coworker at the ad agency. Renee and Pam had known each other since college. Pam was the creative department at Carter & Kaplan; Renee worked as...

Keith: The first time Jenna and I were away from each other was our freshman year in college. I got a baseball scholarship to State, while she went to Atlantic for its fine arts program. I missed her dearly; we called and emailed each other all the time, just to see what the other was up to. We kept no secrets from each other. Jenna: I always thought about Keith. When we were kids, we did everything together. On my first...