This is a tale of an eighteen-year-old guy named Jim. One day, Jim sat on the examination table at White Palms Hospital, waiting for his follow-up to the monthly check-up he’d had last week. He was to return because Nurse Emma had phoned him just two days...
(This is a completely true story. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.) Tessa didn’t know what to do. She was in a truly terrible position at the moment. She was in a hospital room with her best friend Abby. Abby had just had her gall...
“Brian! Look I need help, okay?!" an annoying female voice rang through the air. God, Brian thought to himself. She was really starting to piss him off. Brian Johnson was twenty-four years old. He'd finally graduated college with a degree in computer scie...
Jason slammed the door more vehemently than he'd intended. It was so quiet inside the house from no one being in it that the force of the slam shook the walls and seemed to ricochet off every surface, ringing and echoing hollowly in his ears. Jason had be...
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” –Carl Sagan Dim, gray light shines through the window. The sky is ashen, with pregnant, swollen clouds. There's a slight chill in the air. It’s going to rain any moment. Spring i...
I liked my new place. Maybe it was a little small, but it was an expensive luxury condo, and what made me really happy about it was the walls were painted blue--that soft, tranquil kind of blue that makes you forget everything you knew before. Also, my ne...
God, she was horny that night. She knew her period would be coming the following day. For some reason, always the day before she began her monthly cycle, she would get ragingly, violently horny. Her body would just ache and burn everywhere. Maybe it was n...
(for J. with so much love) "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." —Sir Francis Bacon I'd like to start this story by telling you a little about myself. My name is Tori, and I'm forty-eight. I'm a mom. My daughter...
All she knew was that it was all a complete blur in her mind. She knew a little more than eighteen years ago she'd had a son. She'd given birth to a huge, healthy boy, and they'd brought him to her in the hospital, fresh and scrubbed and the most beautifu...
