It’s just after 5pm when Dae walks into his second-floor apartment. He removes his messenger bag and drops it down on the kitchen table, along with the mail he had just collected, then picks a mandarin out of the fruit bowl and starts peeling it ( Read more... )

CW: mentions of domestic violence (non-graphic) and emotional abuse ( Read more... )

Chariya knocks on her daughter’s bedroom for the third time this morning. “Come on, Alice, you’re going to be late for school ( Read more... )

CW: mentions of domestic violence (non-graphic ( Read more... )

This is me saying I'm signing up for the latest LJ Idol mini season. Will I have time for it? Not sure yet, but I'm going to try.

There’s something about the festival experience that just makes improv more exciting to be around. The like-minded community coming together to build something greater than what could be accomplished within individual groups with a monthly or weekly show ( Read more... )

San Francisco, California; Monday, January 12, 2026Gerald Coulson had been working at the Fairmont Hotel at the top of Nob Hill for 15 years. He started out as a bellboy whilst in culinary school, before moving up to working as a chef in the restaurants when he graduated. He often enjoyed the moments when the upscale tourists would ask to talk to ( Read more... )

I was not-quite-21 when I visited Toronto, Canada to lose my virginity to a man I met when I was 17. The man was probably a self-centred creep - interested in having sex with me, but not a relationship. After more than 3 years of online sexual interest from this man when I never really received that attention from anyone else, I was willing to ( Read more... )

It wasn’t until my son was diagnosed as autistic that I got myself evaluated for autism. In 2017, I learned exactly why I was socially different from my neurotypical peers. The signs were there much earlier, of course ( Read more... )

The last happy memories I have of my mother are from a family trip to New Zealand with her and my sister in February 2005. There are two photos in particular that I remember that encompass that vacation - one of all of our feet in a circle on the beach, and one of us in wetsuits and helmets before we rappelled down into a cave ( Read more... )