Nonfiction Stories

I was both excited and nervous when I found out I was going to see my friends again. We all went to different colleges, and rarely got the see each other. Dalton had called me earlier that week and told me that Adam and Mary were going clubbing with him on Thursday. I agreed to come, but I never expected what was going to happen. I picked up my ringing cell, and answered. “Dalton? I don’t think I can make it. My car is in...

RELATIONSHIP ADVICE The weather was flat calm and damn hot, the scenery, rolling, wild and as ruggedly beautiful as only the North West of Scotland can be in late summer. It was my first proper holiday in years. I had not long returned home from a taxing six month work assignment that had turned into nearly seven long ones and while it had certainly been hot, there wasn't much relaxing or unwinding to be had. Now, I was o...

SAVAGE LESSON It is one of the unalterable facts of life that women are mysterious. There is no point in trying to rationalise, trying to account for or predict every facet of their behaviour because whatever you think you know is liable to flip over on you revealing a truth you never guessed at. Let me put it another way: You know in those naff horror films where someone looks at their reflection in a mirror? Then they p...

The year was 2006 and I had just recently graduated high school and moved into my first apartment with my girlfriend at the time (also bisexual) and two other roommates. Our first night in the apartment we happened to be attending a local music show. We didn’t have our mattresses or anything moved in yet, however we’d still made plans to meet up with one of my ex-boyfriends and take him back to our place afterwards. My gi...