Science Exxxperiment

Author note: this story is stand-alone, but it is also a sequel to The Science Project From the threshold of my door I surveil the dorm hallway, considering each boy as they pass. Joel's gait is mostly swagger. Tall and beefy, sure, but too much a meathead. Wouldn't get anything useful from him. Martin skitters …

Victory Lap

I try out for the team on a whim, a lark. I'm so bad, it’s almost a joke. Yet I make the squad somehow, barely, the defensive coach admitting I’m there only because they need extra bodies during practice. But barely on the team still means I’m on the team, so there I am on …

Lap Dances and other Bad Ideas

“I don’t know, man,” I say, sitting back on the stool, shaking my head, “It’s not something I really like to do, you know?” My cousin Joaquin leans in, nodding, “I do know. That’s why I think it’ll be good for you. Change your scenery. Get yourself a little ‘feminine attention.’ It’ll be fun, man, …

Danielle

“Danielle?!” Her name bursts from me like an expletive. I spring up and clumsily cower behind the couch, as if the low blue cushions will save me from her. “What’re you doing here?” She’s standing in the doorway of the apartment, framed by the mid-day sun behind her, purse in one hand and reusable shopping …

Melissa

“Dude, high school... was she hot?” I pause in my searching to give Nick a good glare. “I haven’t seen her since graduation, like, fifteen years ago. And we weren’t all that super close back then, either. She’s probably old and fat and bald now, like you, up to her ass in babies.” I chew my cheek. “But yes, she was so hot back then. Spent a lot of lonely nights thinking about her.”

Magnor the Magnificent

“Well, Your Lordship, it’s just that...” Sugun started, “Perhaps the people would be less agitated with your rule if you stopped... that is, if you, perhaps, maybe, and this is just an idea, if you canceled today’s demand for sexual fealty from their daughters.”