Mama taught my brother and me a lot in our short time together.
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It was our first time camping as a family. I was fourteen and both excited and annoyed. My annoyance didn't have much to do with my age (feeling too cool for family stuff), or because I'm female (I'm not grossed out by bugs, that's silly). No, my feelings for this trip stemmed from asking, begging, my parents to take me camping since I was four. ( Read more... )

I thought it was just another day at work. Giving tours of the Temporal Lobe to groups of high schoolers, and a little bit of paperwork at the end of the day. Boy, was I wrong ( Read more... )

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What am I doing? I think, as I look at the man I have handcuffed to his bed, wearing only his boxers. This isn't me.I shake my head, to get rid of the thoughts. This is me now. As soon as I saw Adam's picture on Tinder--with backwards baseball cap, beer bottle pressed up to his lips, and his bio, "You only live once. Have fun!"--I became this ( Read more... )

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It appeared out of the corner of my eye. Almost like a trick of the light, or a firefly. It was a spark, this idea ( Read more... )