I met my younger self for coffee at 10am on a Friday.

She was early, standing anxiously

at the door. I was right on time.

I wore an over sized hoodie and faded jeans. She didn’t recognize me. Glanced down

at her phone, just as I said “hello!”

Her long, brown hair fell into her face as

she looked up and met my eye. stuttered out an awkward “hi”

it sounded a lot more like a question, than a...

“Faggots!” The word pierced through the noise of the city and I couldn’t help but look around to see where it had come from. Vancouver is a fairly queer-friendly city, so it isn’t too common to hear slurs thrown around from strangers. At least not where I live.

I glanced around as I crossed the busy street and saw an older man crossing the same direction as me and my partner but on the other sid...

_I'm on my way!_ Marcus tapped into his phone as he settled into the back seat of the bus and pulled up his hood. It would be about forty five minutes on the bus to get to the ferry and then at least another hour until he would be climbing into the passenger seat of his boys truck, but he was already nervous. This was the first time making the trip up to the coast and even though there really wasn...

"It was epic! I've never experienced a ride th. at before. Like, the most immersive experience ever! I can't-" Connor’s phone lit up on the table, it read,

_Text Message _

_Melissa Clark_

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He glanced at it, expecting it to be his boss asking him to come in early for his shift like he did almost every Saturday. But when he saw her name, his mind went blank and he immediately started to panic....

You cross your fingers as you unlock the mail box on the first floor of your apartment building. Today is day number sixty three of this ritual, but this is something you have been waiting a life time for. Since the very first time you wrote your name. Of course year parents gave you a complicated name so it took several more months than some of your peers to learn how to spell it correctly. Back ...

The relief came quickly, a weight

lifted from my shoulders, a burden

I wasn’t aware I’d been carrying, but I am

afraid

To face reality. To let down my guard.

To take off the mask I’ve been wearing

I don’t know who I am without it...

They had only been dating for one month when Jake casually laughed out, "this is exactly why I love you."

The second the words left his lips his eyes went wide with panic. They hadn’t even decided if they were boyfriends yet,_ he couldn’t love him yet, could he? _Jake was known for blurting out the most random honest confessions after he'd had a couple beers, his last confession had been about pe...

The show was about to start. Alex tapped their foot and absentmindedly ripped tiny pieces of paper from the sheet they held in their hands. They’d been attending this show for almost a month, writing almost their entire life, but that night was the first time they’d decided to get up on stage.

The MC was dong their pre-show spiel, trying to get the crowd all riled up. The people seated around the...

The beach is the best place to be just before sunset. To watch the blazing hot sun of late afternoon, slowly disappear over the horizon leaving the sky a perfect shade of cotton candy. I wish I could reach out and grab a handful, feel it slowly dissolve on the tip of my tongue. I wonder what a sunset would taste like.

I want to play at the edge of water, just before it gets too cold to swim. Wig...

Her hands trembled as she read the note on her windshield: 'I know your secret.’ Nervously, she scanned the parking lot filled with regular people. Who could possibly know? She had been so careful. She rubbed the soft spot on the back of her neck abstinent mindedly.

There wasn't anything particularly interesting about the note. It was written on a piece of lined paper that looked like it had bee...