Month: October 2021

I was a 22 year old newlywed the first time I traveled outside of the United States. My husband was a 23 year old Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps and we married before his first deployment to Iraq in 2008. We honeymooned at an adults only resort in Jamaica and our marriage almost didn’t survive its first week but […]

It was a new chapter in my life, one journey had just ended and a new one was about to begin. I had just finished college with a degree in Computers and was starting grad school to earn my Masters in Computer Information Systems and Network Design. I was pursuing my MBA with an emphasis in the two areas mentioned. […]

“Hurry up,” Lucretia laughed, pulling on Harry’s coat sleeve, “it’s freezing out here.” “Yeah yeah, babe, just a second, just a second,” Harry muttered, all his concentration on managing to get the hotel room key into the door lock. Maybe three drinks ago this wouldn’t have been such a task, but as it was, Harry was in no shape to […]

It was autumn in Oceanview, and Halloween was coming. I knew about Halloween from when my family stayed in Hawaii for a year or two when I was young. Kids are supposed to dress up in costumes, and go door to door trick or treating. In small towns in Japan like where we lived, people didn’t usually celebrate Halloween in […]

“Fuck,” I growled emphatically, gently feathering the brakes and merging two lanes to the right in response to the red and blue lights that had lit up right behind my car. It was almost 8 in the morning and my shift had sucked balls; did my busted tail light really demand I get pulled over this morning? Throwing the gear […]

I back my silver 2009 Honda Civic up until it’s about a foot away from the telephone pole, then put it into park. I look out my driver side window, my gaze fixed on my house across the street. A mix of emotions wash through me, the strongest of which is a desire for things to just magically be okay […]

Liz felt incredibly frustrated at herself as she dashed across the parking lot from her car to her boyfriend’s apartment complex. Her boss had told her weeks ago about the seasonal reports that were mandatory for her department. He had sent emails, posted reminders, and nagged her to death and she somehow still forgot them. They had to be submitted […]

It had been a REALLY long flight so far, but Erin O’Keefe didn’t care. She was with the two most important people in her life — her mom and Brad, the man she was marrying. They were aboard Allied Airlines flight 9225, halfway through an all-night flight from New York City to Los Angles, California. Once in LA, they would […]

A few months ago, something changed between my wife and me. Changes for the better… I think. Okay, so here goes. It could be said that it all began before I was even aware it was happening. But the pieces began falling into place a few months before my birthday and the big surprise party my wife would throw for […]

I was always a natural with girls, I never had trouble with one until my wife. I’m blessed with rugged good looks and I’ve always been outgoing. I can’t even remember a time I didn’t have women to choose from. In college I was a bit of a man-slut, crawling the night scene, a different bedmate every night. I even […]