Coming of Age Stories

Griffin Barrett was Fourteen and lived in Granbury, outside Fort Worth, Texas. He lived with his Father, Richard Barrett, a chemical engineer at Allied Technologies. Four years ago, Griffin’s mother, Ashley Barrett, divorced his dad for the bright lights of Hollywood. She went to Southern California for plastic surgery on her nose after an accident and fell in love with the area. Dad said she met someone with money, and he wasn’t sorry she was gone. Grif, as everyone calls him, agreed.

The black shoe swung in and out of the overhead light. It was a slender-heeled pump hugging a nylon-clad foot attached to a nylon-clad leg. Bent at the knee the leg covered a second nylon-clad knee, swinging softly. He loved the dark, reflecting liquid of black patent leather - it was a pool to drown in and be forgotten.

A true account of my discovery of boys and first love, sexual exploration, and loss of virginity during one memorable Florida summer. Names have been changed and and so have minor details for narrative purposes or due to this author's false recollection.

Steve was called over to his girlfriend's house under "false pretenses" by the girlfriend's teenage daughter. Once there, the young girl asks him to be the one to take her cherry and make her a woman...

My girlfriend helps my best friend with his shyness

William Hudson Bowman III was thirteen, and he lived in North Dakota. His friends and family called him Trey. His dad was William Hudson Bowman Jr., age 35, 6'2" tall, and an Army Captain in the Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alphas (ODAs). He was on alert or deployed most of the year. He only made it home once or twice a year for a month's leave. His mom was Kay Whitehurst Bowman, age 32, and 5'11" tall

Brad's sister Sherrie was up to something. Once he discovered what, an opportunity presented itself.

A brother and sister bet on the outcome of a college basketball tournament game.

How would you decide what clubs to join during Freshers Week? I had some basic criteria: physically strenuous ok, team sports not ok, thinking ok, nerdy not ok; but, most of all, it had to be whatever those two girls over there were signing people up for!

A young schoolgirl endures a series of embarrassing, mistaken-identity situations.