Walk in the park

It was lunch time: high noon. Office workers streamed onto the streets and past the park, in their race to find sustenance for their bellies and a break from their work. Walking through the park on this warm July day, there was a young woman sitting on one of the benches in the elm-shaded square. […]

Another father stepdaughter story

A few months ago, my wife’s mother was injured in a car accident. She’s going to recover, thank goodness, but she’ll need looking after for quite some time. Jill’s father passed away a few years back, so it was up to her, as the only stepdaughter, to take care of her mother. It was with […]

She’s a party girl

The best peek I ever stole happened one night when I was up late partying with my friend Alex, smoking in his bedroom and talking bullshit. His parents were out of town, and we were taking advantage of the luxury. After three years of college life, we knew what it felt like to be poor. […]

Angelica Victorious

Angelica almost always thought of herself as Cinderella. Of course her aunt wasn’t really cruel and her cousins, although they were sometimes mean, were also nice to her now and then and often gave her hand- me-down clothes to wear. But she did all the dirty jobs and she never got to go to parties […]

Louis the gangbanger

It all started when I attended an off campus party of a friend of mine. She had one of those huge house parties where people from all over the spectrum were invited. Coming from a small town in Iowa I’d never really met anybody from outside my social circle before. When I was growing up […]

Page 53 of 67
1 … 51 52 53 54 55 … 67