Category: Essays

  • The Rush of Pain

    The Rush of Pain

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    by

    Catherine Renton
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    I remember the first time I felt something other than numb grief following the death of my mother. I was in bed with “Chris,” a guy I’d been dating casually, and he spanked me hard on the ass, without warning. The rush of pain and pleasure awakened something in me. I asked him to smack…

  • How I Was Cheated On In An Open Marriage…Twice

    How I Was Cheated On In An Open Marriage…Twice

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    by

    Jeana Jorgensen
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    He’d chosen to not wear a condom, he told me. I stared at my husband – now ex – in shock. We were scheduled to leave later that day for Chicago, in the middle of a blustery winter, and suddenly this was happening. “This” was not him having sex with a woman outside our marriage;…

  • “Twenty-Six Days”

    “Twenty-Six Days”

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    by

    Allyson Darling
    in

    It happens on a plane. No one has cheated. Or lied. No one has a secret. Or is screaming. There is no shatter of glass or hearts — only the cry whispers coming from aisle ten, seats B and C (middle seat, window seat). They’ve upgraded us to the emergency exit row which does offer…