On a rainy night in December, I was driving. My wife and seven-year-old daughter had fallen asleep. I was on one of those small two-lane winding roads, with a mountain on my left, and a steep cliff on my right. As I turned around a blind corner, two cars...
I feel like I've been admitted to a mental hospital for ages. When was the last time I spoke with someone? Call it PTSD if you may, or whatever you want to name it. It's THE incident that I haven't mentioned, the main reason I'm here. I shuffle around thi...
On a hot summer morning, I’m at brunch with a friend. It feels surreal being in public after a pandemic. Being isolated from society plays with the mind. When was the last time I’d seen a real woman, other than family? Now I’m in a restaurant where women...
It was the second year of college when I met Damian. He was in his graduate year. We were working on an assignment in a field of red poppies when Damian first kissed me. I had been teasing him all morning. I would adjust my skirt, scratch an itch just bes...
For those of you that follow my stories, thank you. For this story, I’ll step out of my normal genre of sixteen-year-old girls with an older man. I’m going to try my best to remember the facts. Before leaving for China I filed for divorce. I was angry, co...
I meet her online. It is an oriental dating site. I am weary of American women and their ‘princess’ ideology. I wouldn’t say that foreign women don’t have a princess ideology, look at the facts: In their country, my money is worth eight times theirs. I ca...
Winter in Siberia gets rather boring. But, come Christmas time the townsfolk that are under twenty gather together. We meet at the top of old man Boris’ hill. The idea is to run down the steep hill as fast as you can, the problem is gravity. You see gravi...
I have been diagnosed with, among other things, major depression and PTSD. Occasionally my family checks on me. I was not having the best week that ended in me going to the hospital. Typically this is a seventy-two hour stay, however, I stayed a little lo...
My parents, Jim and Jane Brown, are your perfect pastoral couple. My Dad comes from a long line of pastors reaching back five generations. My Mom’s pastoral ancestry goes back six generations. They were quite bemused when it took four long years before be...
I have been coaching my granddaughter, Michele, in gymnastics for sixteen years. I have taught her every apparatus and floor routine. Michele was in diapers when we started simple rolls. She was on top of the world holding number one all around, until pub...
My wife and I are just sitting down in front of a movie. It has been a long time since we had this opportunity. Our schedules are frantic at best. I work in Environmental Health and Safety. My wife is an RN going to school to become a Nurse Practitioner....
Freshman college coed apartment. “KC what do you mean you need a driver for spring break?” There are times that I really hate my twin sister. This is one of them. She wants me to drive her and a few friends to Las Vegas. “PJ you need to loosen up. You've...
It's summer and I'm seventeen. I have never been to summer camp. Sometimes it feels as if my mom has a noose around my neck. I fear that she will control my life all the way until I graduate college. I want breathing room. I need to be assertive, so I giv...
Emily Smith raps on my back sliding glass door. Emily is a freshman in college. She is modestly dressed in a green long sleeve sweater, a white blouse, skinny fit straight leg pants and sneakers. She is five feet tall and maybe ninety-five pounds soaking...
I’m Bruce, I am thirty-six years old and work as a general building contractor. I was married to my high-school sweetheart in high school. It takes six months for a divorce to finalize in my state and today the six months is up. Our twins are in their fir...
