Alan’s friend Amy is one of those I can’t wait to join a cause type of people. It’s not that Alan is necessarily against her causes, it's just that he’s never seen any results coming from all the bother of doing all that protesting and marching. Nothing ever really changes because of them, does it? He makes the mistake of telling that to Amy, and Amy challenges him on his beliefs by calling him too comfortable. He talks the talk, but doesn’t really walk the walk when it comes to his values. That strikes a nerve in him and he decides to go with her to the latest protest. A series ...

Steve arrived at college with a plan. He was going to get out of the dorms and find a place to live. He had just enough time before the semester started to enact his plan. The ad in the paper said affordable, and that's a magic word for a poor college student. The new place isn't much to look at. Luckily, what his new apartment lacks the girl next door had in spades. She's a cute little Asian spinner and she appeared interested in Steve. That’s when things started to go funny. She turned out to be a he. Well, that wasn’t true. His new neighbor was a transformer … er ... transistor …...

Everyone told Sam marrying an older woman was going to be tough. He hadn’t figured it would be because of what happened this Christmas. Sam’s life was at an awkward stage. With his stepson now off at college, his wife had rejoined the workforce. It is not that he cared if his wife was working, but the fact was in a short time back in the workforce, she was doing better than he ever had. Even that didn’t bother him. What really bothered him was when his wife was called off on work related travel for Christmas. That seemed funny right from the start. Her out of town left Sam with the ...

Everyone has that one special friend that they should absolutely not be friends with. They were that one friend that’s a touch on the crazy side of life. Luke’s special friend was named Cass and she was always seemingly one day short of her next trainwreck. Yet she was also always a lot of fun to be around no matter what disaster she eventually led Luke into. That was because she was that one old friend in his life that could get Luke out of his personal shell and out into the real world to have little adventures. It was too bad for him when Cass skipped town five years ago. Luke’s ...

Jerry’s boss rewards him with a surprise trip to Thailand with all expenses paid. It’s an offer too good to be true, so naturally there’s a hook. His boss needs Jerry to travel with him because Jerry is needed to entertain his boss’s girlfriend’s friend. Apparently, his girlfriend can’t be happy unless her special friend is happy too. As his boss explains it, a happy girlfriend is a good girlfriend, so he needs to find this friend a man to date for the length of the vacation. It seems to be a small price to pay for an all-expense paid vacation, so Jerry agrees to a blind date. ...

Jack had just come home for winter break from his freshman year in college. In some ways things couldn’t be going better for him. He had good grades and mom and dad flipping for his tuition so he was loan free. However, he had little liquid cash of his own. It was hard to land a girl when you are dead broke. Things were heading in the opposite financial ways for his older sister. She had graduated college last year and came home driving a brand new Porsche. That was a little suspicious given she was an art major with no talent for art. Jack learns his sister’s secret, she’s created ...

Chris has been friends with Annabelle since they were kids. When Chris is feeling down on his luck he knows he can always go to his friend to be cheered up. Today he's feeling down. His dream prom date Samantha has turned him down. Hoping to get cheered up, he goes over to Annabelle's house knowing she'll be there for him. Indeed, she's already got a plan in the works for him that she guarantees will win Samantha's heart. She knows how to save his prom experience and have him end high school the way he's always dreamed it would end. All he has to do is play along with her plans. Chris ...

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Barry always dreamed of a sweet lifetime appointment to a cushy government job. When the water commissioner job falls nearly in his lap, it’s a dream come true. The only way he could mess up the hearing to become water commissioner was if he had some deep dark secret in his past, but, come on, there’s no way anyone would know about Barry’s faults. That is unless they somehow found out about his dark secret from high school. What if they learned about that party from long ago during Beach Week. It was the party where he and Willy got poor Terry pass out from drinking and then dressed ...

Jason is a ginger haired college student in need a little quick cash. His student loans are putting a damper on his ready cash supply. Luckily, he just came by an advertisement that will help just a touch with his financial troubles. A university professor is paying twenty-five bucks a session for a drug trial. The best part is the thousand dollars promised at the end of the sessions. Easy money, what college kid could resist a chance at it. The test drug turns out to be a male enhancement drug. Jason being young and virile has no problems there. However, since the graduate student ...

He’s a star football player, and I’m nobody. There’s no way it could ever work. So why does it feel like he completes me? I’ve never believed in love, but when my eyes catch his, my heart races. His breathy whisper kicks off feelings I’ve never known before. And I may be falling for him despite myself. He insists we keep our relationship a secret, though. Afraid it might interfere with his career if word gets out. But what if there’s a solution? A way we can be wide open to all the world? Should we go for it? Are we willing to give the whole nine yards to hold on to each other ...

Howie is on the verge of marrying Abbey, the girl of his dreams. But, he’s got some concerns about her past. Abbey’s hiding something, but neither the family attorney, Josh, nor Howie knows how big the surprise is. Abbey refuses to have sex with Howie until there married. So, Howie waited, thinking it was virtuous. Howie waited patiently because he loved Abbey and enjoyed her friendship. It was a long wait, but that wait was finally over. Now, in a secluded beachfront cottage, Howie gets down to business. On their first night alone, Howie discovers the one thing Abbey forgot to mention,...

Ben’s a competitive guy by nature and his chosen field of competition is action figure collecting. He’s got the second-best collection in town and the number one guy is on his way out. That means Ben has a golden chance at buying up the number one’s collection at auction, and thus move on up to the top spot. The only problem with his plan is the inconvenient fact that Ben’s money source, his mom, is sick of him spending all his time collecting action figures instead of dating. She’s put her foot down. There’s to be no more money until he finds a girl. What a nightmare! Every ...

John was a lonely programmer used to a routine schedule of working all day in his cubicle and video gaming all night in his apartment. He had kept his social interactions to a minimum. It’s not that he didn’t want social interactions, it is just that he wasn’t very good around people. That goes doubly true around a pretty woman. When John was around a beautiful woman his brain stops working normally and he starts tripping all over his tongue. That was certainly how he interacted with his new neighbor, the beautiful Ally, the first time he met her. It was a stupid, but all too common, ...

He's my best friend. We love each other. How hard can it be to convince mom and dad that we're actually in love… And that he's a girl. "I've already found the right girl." As soon as the words slip away from me, I know what a terrible mistake I've made. But I'm so sick of all these blind dates that mom and dad keep setting up for me. All because they want me to find a girl and finally move out. I rack my brain to think of some way out of the mess I created, and that's when I think of Sai. He's my best friend. He'll do anything for me. And he looks so much like a woman that no one would ...