Caution Stories

An oldie of mine that I re-edited. I wrote a dark ending for chapter 3. I'm not sure why but it's there.

I wanted to caption a picture sent to me by Eddie Davidson. I couldn't do it. There was too much going on, so I wrote a short story instead. Check out the picture then read the story.

A Slices of Jade Story
A short violent story.

This story was inspired by a true event that happened to me on my way to work one day. The rest, after the first three paragraphs, unfortunately, is pure fiction. In the true version, she just smiled at me and walked away as I went into work; I never saw her again.

Men had been oppressed for too long, so they struck back. They seized the right to rape. But sometimes women didn't fulfill their new subservient roles happily. They were bad girls. And some of the very bad girls wound up at the Bad Girl Zoo. There is much humiliation and sadism. The story takes place in the same universe as "Men Strike Back: the Right to Rape".

In a raw Pop Cast interview, Jessica and Amber Lodes discuss their two years homeless and unclothed in Tucson. They describe enduring constant sexual violence, viewing their nudity not as the cause but as a choice reclaiming their bodies. Now living in a mountain home, they maintain their clothing-free lifestyle as an act of freedom. They explain their complex healing process, which includes voluntarily returning to the street to face their trauma on their own terms.

Her mom owes some bad men money. (Hard-boiled to say the least.) Illustrated.