I shared my first kiss with two boys, best friends. It’s a story I’ve told often, usually at someone else’s urging. I sacrificed my virgin …
Shampoo Night by Joy Beshears
I was eight years old when I brought the kitten home. It was the summer I started riding horses, and to pay for my lessons …
The House on Silver by Joy Beshears
My friends and I were all at a house on Silver Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. I can think of no reason for such a …
A Lesson on Driving by Murray Dunlap
So you wanna drive, eh young Murray? Be patient. This is a lesson best learned now, before the car wreck that will nearly kill you. …
Awakened at 3 AM, I Put My Glasses On to Find There’s No One There but Grace Kelly by Melanie Faith
She wears white leather kid gloves, a pillbox hat over her blonde coiffure. The time is April 1956 on the newsreel on the classic movie …
Sunny Girl by Jennifer Niven
Once upon a time there was a little girl who believed in happy endings. She was an only child of two exceptional parents. They told …