Month: August 2021

The day of my coming of age arrived as any other one. The background music of our palace combined with the beautiful chirps of birds woke me up at the same time as the rays of the sun touched my face. Today was finally the day that I have waited for so long. The beginning of my harem and the […]

The summer heat beat down on my back as I walked along the sidewalk. The tall white fence marking the construction zone was a constant companion on these warm days off of school. I remember recalling how this was the final summer before my life really kicked off in college, and I was spending most of my days soaking up […]

“This stupid… fucking… thing!” Bella threw the offending slips of fabric on the bed, herself on the other bed, and started sobbing. She didn’t know if it was more from humiliation, self loathing or embarrassment over her failure to do even this simple thing right; who leaves for a tropical cruise without checking if their swimwear fits?

There was a knock on my door, which is rare in the rural desert outside Tucson. My neighbors and I live on at least an acre, we are a tight community, friendly, but we rarely just drop in on each other. We call or text. I was wondering who would come inside my gate and knock on the door. I […]

My family has vacationed in the Outer Banks (OBX), North Carolina, for as long as I remember. I remember so many hot stuffy drives down the interstate highways, sitting in the back of a station wagon, looking backwards. Cars crept at a snail’s pace and the exhaust and heat would become unbearable. It was only the excitement of being back […]

I am a reserve army officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, which I honestly took up partly out of family tradition and partly to pay for my studies. My family has been soldiers for as long as there has been an Empire and I grew up on the poems of Kipling, with the side notes of which ancestors were part […]

We have been running for half an hour now, give or take. The pony in front of me is sweating profusely. It lacks the elegance, the easy, fluid movements an experienced horse displays. I hope it will learn quickly, I’m not sure what happens to the poor creatures that don’t fit in. They tend to vanish quickly. My guess is […]

Some things may only be seen in the direct rays of sunlight. In the early morning underneath a tree canopy of oaks, poplars, and pine, the intricacy of a magnificent spider’s web tenuously balancing between branches revealed itself. Without the direct rays of sunlight, the web would have remained undetected until an innocent prey haphazardly stumbled upon it. Unlike the […]

It all started a few years ago, and in a manner not unfamiliar: an incredibly beautiful young girl, impressionable, and under the influence of her (male) peers’ endless attention — and maybe something to loosen her up — wanted nothing more than to feel the kind of excitement that giving in to that attention could grant her… Brittany Hadel’s story […]

I was very naive when I turned 18 and had many friends who sort of refused to grow up not making arrangements to move out of our respective parent’s homes and engaging in activities not worthy of men old enough to attend the local community college where my life was expanding dramatically. My best childhood friend was “Pito”, spanish for […]