One of my responsibilities as a low-level supervisor at an investment firm is to attend quarterly meetings at the regional office in Chicago. I am always one of the younger people at these events and, to be fair, I am also the lowest-ranking person from our firm who attends these meetings. While the top executives are pampered and put on an airplane at the company’s expense, I am afforded a partial day off with pay to mak...

It was a mid-July Saturday night and my wife, Angela, and I were preparing to head out for the evening. Angela, or Angie, and I had only been married about two years, so we were still relatively newlyweds. Both of us had been in a previous marriage that didn’t work out, but neither of us had children. That gave us the rare privilege of starting anew in our early thirties. We first headed to a local steakhouse. It was a fa...

When I was about twenty years old, my sexual curiosity started to broaden so that it included men as well as women. I was careful about how I worded that earlier part because there had always been a certain degree of curiosity about men. I wouldn’t say that I was physically attracted to men, or at least the vast majority of men, but I had become increasingly obsessed with their genitalia. In order to disguise my true inte...

One particular day after work, I had just arrived home to find my wife waiting for me in the kitchen. I knew the look that she was giving me far too well. It was clear that something had gone wrong. She led me to the kitchen table and we sat on opposite sides. After outstretching her hands and grabbing hold of mine, she stated, “We need to talk about your daughter, Kellie. It’s about her sexual activity.” “Oh, fuck!” I th...

A few years ago, I was going through a difficult time. I had lost my job, mostly due to my own irresponsibility. I was working in a factory with a very early start time. After being either a little bit or sometimes very late on many occasions, I was eventually let go. Without any money stashed away, I quickly got behind on my bills and I struggled to make the monthly rent payment. Although I was searching for a job, I cou...

When I was in my early twenties, I had to relocate to a larger city for work. Because I wasn’t established and didn’t command an impressive salary, I quickly realized that I probably couldn’t afford to pay for my own place. I didn’t know anyone else living in the area, so I searched through all types of ads trying to find someone who was seeking a roommate. There wasn’t much time to waste, so I soon met with several diffe...

The whirlwind first week of our vacation had come to a close. One of the best aspects of that milestone would be that a flurry of new arrivals would land at the resort. Personally, I was really hoping for some people who were somehow different from the current roster, whether that be age, body type, race, etc. I kept a sharp lookout for the newbies as they slowly trickled into the resort. It didn’t take long for me to spo...

After being caught by Chan, I tried to avoid her for as long as I could. I took it easy the following day, although I did entertain a couple of women. There were also several public displays that I watched in those “off the path” clearings in the woods. Chan was back at it with her nightly show. This time, it was with two women. They were a couple that I had seen before, so the other two women had a bit of a rapport with...

It was exactly one year after the start of this story and, on the surface, things seem very much the same as last year. Chan and I were riding in the back of the same car, Mom and Dad were still up front, and we were heading to the resort once again. That would be just about the end of the similarities with last year. Chan and I had silenced our phones as we fired text messages back and forth rapidly. Even though neither...

“Your boyfriend, Gunnar?” I asked. “Pfft, yeah, he is probably with your sister. Those two have been going at it non-stop for the past couple of days,” she exclaimed with a laugh. “You know about that?” I questioned. “Of course, I do! He’s my boyfriend,” she replied. It was more than I could even begin to process. I mumbled something about letting him know as I mindlessly left the room. As I walked back to the cabin, I di...

I awoke far too early the following morning. Daybreak had arrived, sending piercing beams of sunlight through the cabin windows and into my eyes. Yesterday had been a long day and I had only gotten about four hours of sleep. Chandra noticed that I was awake and made a playful comment about my “morning wood.” She asked who it was that I was dreaming about last night (as if she didn’t know). It was her way of apologizing fo...

I had just turned eighteen when my parents first invited my older sister, Chandra, and me to join them on their traditional summer vacation. They never spoke about their yearly trips very much. In our younger years, they would typically say something like, “It’s not a very safe place for young kids.” I didn’t really know what that meant, but to be honest, I never gave it a whole lot of thought. Still, there Chan and I wer...

When I was in my early thirties, I decided to join a gym. I had recently broken up with my longtime girlfriend and thought that I needed to trim up a little bit. Aware that I most likely was going to be targeting women younger than myself, I felt like I needed to look my best. I took a tour of a local gym one afternoon. It was in a very large, two-story building with ample parking out front. If I recall correctly, it used...

It was the Saturday night following my thirty-second birthday. My wife, Elizabeth, had arranged for our two young children to stay at her parents’ house for the night while we went out for dinner and had a bit of “alone time.” We went out to my favorite hibachi restaurant and had a few drinks while we were there. As we left the restaurant, I asked Lizzie if she wanted to catch a movie or something. She responded that she...

I was hanging out with one of my friends, Nick, at his parent's house on a Saturday afternoon. In an attempt to get a bit of freedom, we decided to head to town and grab something to eat. It was a typical small town with mostly fast-food restaurants and pizza places. We decided to frequent the best of the pizza restaurants, in part because they were the only one of the options considered that sold beer. They were pretty q...