Toni had a plan for the summer: rest, relaxation, and renovation. In the summer before her sabbatical year, all she wanted to do was extricate herself from her job. No work emails. Not departmental or...

2010Helping pack up his childhood home was going much easier than Amir expected. The only sticking point is the record collection his father Alonzo refuses to put in storage. When Amir asked his father...

Chanté is a broke college student, waiting tables at a strip club on the wrong side of town called The Petal, hoping one day to be on the main stage herself. She goes to classes, goes to the club and...

Noel Okay, so my life is officially at rock bottom. I'm 26 with nothing more to show for myself than a mountain of debt I can't pay back because I just got fired from my job as an assistant manager at...

Darren and Nadia think they're ready to add a girlfriend to their marriage, but Jourdan knows between them is exactly where she belongs.

ShaeHere's my advice for how to survive a vacation to Italy with the college boyfriend you've just now realized is terrible:1. Ditch him in Rome.2. Take the train to Naples for pizza.3. Let the attractive...

ZoeWhat should you do when your boyfriends try to spring a baby on you? Fight and then leave.What should you do when the old women in your family want to know why your sister has gone MIA in Italy? Tell...

ZahraWhat would you do if you found out that your fiancé cheated on you the night before your wedding with a reality tv exotic dancer? What if you found out that they'd had a threesome with your best...

 Asif preferred to work alone.He hated worrying about protocol and safety precautions when skirting just around the edges of acceptable behavior allowed him to get the job done fast. But sometimes his...

When Mei Barnes was eighteen, she saw Miles Jefferson across a crowded room and knew immediately that he would be the love of her life. The first time Miles saw Mei, he knew that whatever he did for the...

And when you leave me...I was raised to get my house in order at the end of the year.Dust from top to bottom.Wash your windows clockwise with vinegar and the hottest water you can stand.Sweep on your...

ZoeThe best part of a new relationship is discovering one another and learning how to expose yourselves. And that's exactly what I have planned for my vacation in Palermo with Alfonso. I don't care about...

SalvatoreLast spring I spent one afternoon claiming Shae's body and giving her my heart in return. After months of dreaming about a woman I could never keep, she walks back into my life, and I never plan...

GiulioI don't want to be the boss.I want to stay in bed for at least sixteen hours a day with Zahra. I want to pretend that what we have can last. And every now and then I want to shoot some people. In...

Lamont is one of the best agents in the Columbus ATF office. He runs all of his cases by-the-book and meticulously. Nothing matters more than the job; not even his boyfriend who gets fed up with being...

Kenny, the Asian-American spy, has been dating Maya, the fat Black cam model, for a few months. He used to be the kind of guy who didn't put anything above his job and his ambition to become the best...

What's life like on the tenure track?For Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Deja Evans, it sucks. Hard. Every day.Between the class prep, the meetings, grading student work, trying to find time to...

Every Thursday night Kenny logs into Maya's camroom for a private, steamy session that leaves them both giddy, breathless and hungry for more. Their online relationship is complicated. She's a sex worker...

Kierra has been in the honeymoon period with Monica and Lane for a few months. But as the year comes to a close she is confronted with questions she can't answer alone, because she's not an island anymore....

When Ezra Posner was eighteen, he met Candace Garret and fell in love.When Candace met Ezra, she instantly knew he was the boy for her.In the middle of their first year at college, Candace and Ezra share...

Kierra was a poor poet looking for a job while she worked toward her dream of becoming a published poet. One day she accidentally becomes the personal assistant to married spies. For the last three years...