Fifty Shades of Bile

OK, I’ll admit it.  It took me a few weeks, but I finally followed the herd mentality that I know I have, and went out and got the damn thing. You know what I’m talking about right?  That stupid book.  No, not the Hunger Games.  That book is actually well written and worth the praise [...]

On the Floor

“How does that feel?” he whispered into my ear, a whisper so soft it was more of a breath. Oh, God.  This was what heaven was. Ray and I were intertwined on Dawn and Todd’s living room floor, her steady breathing and Todd’s soft snoring reassuring us  from behind their closed bedroom door.  I could [...]

Maybe

What I find most remarkable about my thinking back then as I waited the interminable hours between when I knew what was going to happen and when I could tell Joe what was going to happen was that I honestly didn’t think at all that he might want something different than I did.  Or anyone [...]

The Stick

It was like a scene from a movie. I went to the bathroom every fifteen minutes looking to see if my period had started.  After several days of this, I knew that it was time to find out what was going on.  I went, alone, on a 10 degree day, to the slightly off campus [...]

Late

“I think I might be late.” I uttered the words nervously to Joe one cold January morning in a practice room.  We were both furiously practicing for this term’s auditions.  I was disappointed with my placement last trimester, and so I wanted to prepare as much as possible for the one performance that would determine [...]

Home from College

It was time for Christmas Break. Joe and I were both going back home to work and earn a little more to put in each of our bank accounts.   He had lined up a horrible construction job for the three weeks of break, a back breaking schedule of physical labor that started early and ended [...]

A Hot Summer Night

My mother was spending a weekend up north at her friend’s cabin on the lake.  This is what people do in the summer in Michigan, they all go up to cabins on lakes in the proverbial lands labeled “Up North”, which means they are somewhere north of the outer ring suburbs. She often did this.  [...]

Silence Is Not Acceptance

I was very nearly drunk for the first time that night. I was at a wedding. Improbably, my girlfriend Lori, whom I’d met at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp four years prior, was getting married. She was just a year older than me, having graduated last spring. I had driven to her house on the [...]

Not What You’d Expect

I can think of three defining moments in my life. Three moments that truly altered the course of my life and the way I would live it so irrevocably that they were, without hyperbole, life changing experiences. Losing my virginity was not one of those moments. You’d expect at this point in the story that [...]