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Great, another homeless dude wants money from me. My family and I had just finished eating dinner downtown, and as I was walking back to my car, this homeless dude caught my eye and came over to [...]

“I’m too chicken! I don’t have the balls to do it!” He wailed into his hands as they shielded his face from the invasion of embarrassment he felt encroaching around him. He just took a bet and [...]

I pushed open the heavy door from the girl’s locker room and slid my back against the wall to sit on the floor. I was in high school and had just finished a tough cross country practice. I [...]

I parked my car. In this spot. And now it’s gone. I looked over to my fiancé. She opened her mouth to comfort me but couldn’t find the words. I clicked the alarm on my keys to make sure I wasn’t [...]

[dropcap1]Q:[/dropcap1] Jake, do you think that someday people will forget or just let aside their religion and live just following good principles and treat everyone as equal? As a part of this [...]

People assume that homosexuals and Christians are like oil and water. The Oil Christians are invasively judgmental and arrogantly burst their biblical battering ram of self-defined righteousness [...]

It was my second visit to the small Odessa, Texas store. My husband and I were visiting his family and I remembered loving the knick knacks and cute decorations in the store. I was anxious to get [...]

“They told me, ‘Just go and kill yourself–you don’t matter anyways.’” His words almost whisked away in the warm Florida wind. He said them so flippantly they almost lost their weight. We [...]

She hobbled into our tent and stood in the middle of my conversation. “I think I sprained my ankle.” It was that awkward moment when I knew I should care, but honestly, I believed I was too busy [...]