True Story Stories

A young woman finds that she is going blind from retinitis pigmentosa, but along the way finds love and herself.

Arizona, 1944. Elinor Powell, a Black Army nurse, is assigned to care for Nazi prisoners—a job deemed too good for her to do for white American soldiers. Frederick Albert, a German POW and jazz-loving artist, sees her across the mess hall and declares, "I'm the man who's going to marry you." Against military law, Jim Crow racism, and two nations at war, they fall in love. Their forbidden romance would cost them everything—and prove that love can survive even the cruelest divides.

It had been quite a week. Once my cousin Tammy gave her virginity to my dad it was like a door opened for her, leading her to a whole new way of life. Her father had her the next day and then she finally did it with her brother a couple of days later. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that my slutty cousin Kristen would find a way to worm her way in on the action as well.

A club manager meets Carol, a principled small-town waitress who becomes his trusted right hand. Their friendship turns intimate, exploring swinging, coke-fueled fantasies, anal, and gloryhole thrills. Taboo confessions deepen their bond, but life pulls them apart. Years later, he reflects on the trust, sin, and lasting ache she left behind.

Ellen, traveling alone from the west coast by air, meets a handsome stranger who initiates her into an exclusive club flying high over the Great Western Plains.

She was forty, overweight, owned a small diner and was tired of much work and little money. He was forty-five, hard working and tired of his job, his employer and living alone. After he had been a customer of Thelma's Diner for nine years, Sam and Thelma discivered each other.

You know how sometimes it seems that something you dream of but deep down you know will never happen - happens? Well, that was the case in this situation. We met at church where he was a Deacon. I was young and single while he was married with children. I was offered a day of shopping and dinner in exchange for fulfillment of a fantasy. Sounded like a pretty good deal to me!

Life can be like a roller-coaster sometimes, full of climbs and drops, sudden turns and gut-wrenching twists. All my life I'd wanted nothing more than to be a teacher and then it seemed all my hopes and dreams were crushed. When an opportunity arose, who could blame me for comprising my principles so long as it led to me doing what I'd always dreamed of - teaching.

We loved pushing her limits just as much as she did

You only turn 23 once and although it's not usually thought of as a "significant" birthday, my girlfriends weren't going to let it go by without celebrating it. With a little help from some friends, it was indeed a birthday to remember.