Month: August 2021

Brandon Burley stood at his locker, filtering through the heavy textbooks inside. It was Friday morning, and most of his senior-class peers were gearing up for date night or the weekend house party, but this was not the case for him. Nope, instead of kissing girls or binge drinking around a keg, Brandon would likely spend his evening downloading bootleg […]

I looked over at the armchair, where James sat. Why the fuck are you sitting there looking all gormless for? I thought to myself. It’s not that I hate James, it would be fair to say that I tolerate him, mainly because he lives at my house but we rarely bump into each other. This was one of those rare […]

Ryan looked up at the clock on the wall and sighed. The 48 year old couldn’t believe that only thirty minutes had passed of the eight hours he was required to put in at the Pigeon Hill Tri-County Help Center. For perhaps the hundredth time this month alone, he asked himself how he had gotten into this fix. A few […]

How do I start this? For some reason, a guy who writes stories for a web site called LITEROTICA contacted me to write our story. I e-mailed him back and told him to stick the story concept up his ass and figured that would be the end of it. No — he got another author friend of his, this time […]

We greet each other the way brothers do. “You look older than Bob Barker.” “When did your dog learn to talk?” We both laugh and hug each other. Nathaniel is my ‘little’ brother. I’ve always called him Nat, and never Nate. Other than having the same last name, we are very different. For one thing, he’s 5’10” and hates that […]

The Wishing World When I awoke, I was a girl. The house I was in felt foreign to me. Still, I did not sense I was trespassing. I couldn’t really remember who I was. I was in a daze. I got out of bed and put on a robe I found lying nearby. Then I went to my door and […]

I walked down the dingy alleyway, checking all the numbers on the doors. Half of them didn’t have numbers anyway. I was dressed in my best suit, such as it was, and I was doing my best to look like an educated professional. It was hard, though, when I could see two dogs having sex a couple feet from me. […]

On the weekends, my boyfriend and I have been taking advantage of the warm summer weather by going hiking up in the hills. Jacob and I started going on these long hikes together a couple of weeks ago. Three or four hours together. Jacob and I just talk and hold hands as we hike through the heavily wooded trails.

“Sasha, I’d like to talk to you in private. Would you mind locking the office door so that we won’t be disturbed, and then come over here?” I watched a brief flicker of surprise and then hesitation flash briefly in Sasha’s sultry almond-shaped eye before a look of acquiescence reappeared on the attractive Asian face of my private secretary. With […]

My folks recently moved to a large property in the hills outside of a major city. I thought it would be cool living in this urban setting not too far from the college I attended, but I soon found I needed to supplement both my time and pocketbook. One of my classmates mentioned a nearby golf course was looking for […]