Fiction: Maggie (Part 2)

SOME BACKGROUND: Much like Part 1, this story has grounding in reality…to a point. The plot is all fiction; however, the other characters are based on other people I’ve talked to or met, and the things we do are ones that the original date/hook up and I touched on in our conversations. Like me, she …

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FICTION: Maggie (Part 1)

SOME BACKGROUND: This story is based on what I expected to be a promising, but turned into an incredibly confusing date/hook up. The general story leading up to our getting intimate is more or less based in reality, but overall finer details are a product of artistic license. For whatever reason, she had a sudden …

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Fiction: Figuring Things Out (Part 1)

WRITER’S NOTE: Minh is based on someone I met a very long time ago. Like Minh, she was a bit of an enigma - mixed signals and awkward conversations. To this day, I’m still not entirely sure what her mindset was, but for the record, nothing happened with her and I. A week ago I …

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Fiction: Mostly Lesbian

Writer’s Note: This is loosely based off of an experience I had years ago with a woman who affectionately described herself as “90% lesbian.” Unlike this story, she was single and we never did anything with each other. I knew something was up at work when my boss began starving me for work. My usual, …

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Blind Date, Blind Expectations

Blind Expectations I was a little apprehensive about this bar. Five months earlier I had my encounter with a woman here who thought having a knock-down, drag-out fight with her mother on the phone was the perfect way to begin a first date. The other minor wrinkle with this evening was my bracing for the …

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The Red Spectacular

Like many people, I’ve always been enraptured with the holiday season. From late October (I consider Halloween, my favorite holiday, to be the start of the season) until New Year’s Eve, the world changes – both physically with the onslaught of decorations and lights, and metaphysically as we’re reminded of the good things in the …

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