Growing up in a small West Coast family, it felt like we had no secrets. My parents had met late in the eighties at a commune that was a holdover from the laissez-faire hippy days of free love and recreational drugs. Now in their fifties, they were respec...
I awoke earlier than usual with the sun shining brightly on my face through blinds I had forgotten to close. Still groggy from sleep, I collected my thoughts as my bedroom surroundings came into focus. The alarm clock on my nightstand said six a.m. but th...
(Continued from Part 2) My sister, Demi, and I had fallen asleep on the couch after our most recent round of sex, and I awakened to an unbelievable porn scene on our large-screen television. I woke her in a frenzy as I scrambled to freeze the picture. Onc...
The next morning was uneventful. Demi had coffee made when I awoke, and I found her in the kitchen. We kissed good morning as was our family custom and had a quick breakfast. "We need to make sure we don't leave any incriminating evidence lying around, Se...
"Dad, did you see this?" Demi was studying her phone while her dad unloaded his briefcase from work. "What's that?" "It's from Mom. She and Sean are stuck at the cabin. The road is apparently washed out." "I was afraid of that happening. I saw that some s...
Sean awoke to the sound of rain drumming on the tin roof of the cabin. It took a few seconds to get his bearing before he realized the naked form next to him was his mother. The night came back to him in a jumble of thoughts as the rain reminded him they...
With the cabin cleaned of all incriminating evidence, Sean and his mother were soon on the road home. Bree, Sean's mother decided she wanted to drive, in part to keep her mind off of recent events, namely having incestuous sex with her seventeen-year-old...
Time has a way of passing us by quickly—too quickly—many would say. Christmas was approaching, and Bree was in a particularly festive mood. Her daughter Demi would be home for a couple of weeks from college, and the whole family would be together for the...
Sean awoke in the middle of the night and reached for his mother, who was conspicuously missing. It had been a wild night. The family meeting laid out a few simple family ground rules about consent and secrecy, but the bottom line was that primal urges no...
