Setting: modern day (summer 2016 ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern day Massachusetts ( Read more... )

Setting: bizarro-lit, so some liberties are taken with reality, but for the purpose of this discussion modern-day US ( Read more... )

I am finding a lot of material about reporting a missing child, but not much for the experiences of a missing/lost child who has just been found. The keywords I used included: missing children, Massachusetts runaway, Massachusetts missing children, missing children stories/experiences, how do the police process a lost child, what do I do if I find ( Read more... )

Hey there folks,
I need a little help with current Boston area slang. My attempts at googling have brought me to multiple, dubious travel guides and endless copy-paste pages whose info seems to originate from the Boston page of the Language Schools site and relies heavily on an exaggerate Boston accent ( Read more... )

This would be set in 2000-2003 in the U.S. (Massachusetts, specifically), with a five to eight year-old child as the patient. I tried looking for varying combinations of "illnesses" "hospitalization" "children" "years" and "time-frame", but nothing I came up with was very relevant or helpful for what I'm looking for ( Read more... )

My protagonist, a gay undergraduate at a fictional college north of Boston, caught himself a case of crabs. He finds a doctor who will provide discreet treatment, but what sort of medicine does he get? Any particular brand? Would it be an ointment? What did it look like, feel like, smell like? These are all details which would be useful to me. I ( Read more... )

So, I have a FAAB genderqueer character at college in Massachusetts sometime in the 90s (most like early-to-mid, but my timeline is a little flexible and some of this takes place over years so answers for any part of the decade are appreciated.) My questions ( Read more... )

Setting: Washington State - America, Massachusetts - America
Research: child adoption, custody process after death of a parent, adoption laws in Massachusetts, adoption laws in Washington, I've also gone through the custody & social services,
Question:
I'm trying to find out what would happen to my main character (a fourteen year old male) after his ( Read more... )