Barry always dreamed of a sweet lifetime appointment to a cushy government job. When the water commissioner job falls nearly in his lap, it’s a dream come true. The only way he could mess up the hearing to become water commissioner was if he had some deep dark secret in his past, but, come on, there’s no way anyone would know about Barry’s faults. That is unless they somehow found out about his dark secret from high school. What if they learned about that party from long ago during Beach Week. It was the party where he and Willy got poor Terry pass out from drinking and then dressed ...

Alan’s friend Amy is one of those I can’t wait to join a cause type of people. It’s not that Alan is necessarily against her causes, it's just that he’s never seen any results coming from all the bother of doing all that protesting and marching. Nothing ever really changes because of them, does it? He makes the mistake of telling that to Amy, and Amy challenges him on his beliefs by calling him too comfortable. He talks the talk, but doesn’t really walk the walk when it comes to his values. That strikes a nerve in him and he decides to go with her to the latest protest. A series ...

Steve arrived at college with a plan. He was going to get out of the dorms and find a place to live. He had just enough time before the semester started to enact his plan. The ad in the paper said affordable, and that's a magic word for a poor college student. The new place isn't much to look at. Luckily, what his new apartment lacks the girl next door had in spades. She's a cute little Asian spinner and she appeared interested in Steve. That’s when things started to go funny. She turned out to be a he. Well, that wasn’t true. His new neighbor was a transformer … er ... transistor …...

Everyone told Sam marrying an older woman was going to be tough. He hadn’t figured it would be because of what happened this Christmas. Sam’s life was at an awkward stage. With his stepson now off at college, his wife had rejoined the workforce. It is not that he cared if his wife was working, but the fact was in a short time back in the workforce, she was doing better than he ever had. Even that didn’t bother him. What really bothered him was when his wife was called off on work related travel for Christmas. That seemed funny right from the start. Her out of town left Sam with the ...

John was a lonely programmer used to a routine schedule of working all day in his cubicle and video gaming all night in his apartment. He had kept his social interactions to a minimum. It’s not that he didn’t want social interactions, it is just that he wasn’t very good around people. That goes doubly true around a pretty woman. When John was around a beautiful woman his brain stops working normally and he starts tripping all over his tongue. That was certainly how he interacted with his new neighbor, the beautiful Ally, the first time he met her. It was a stupid, but all too common, ...

Jason is a ginger haired college student in need a little quick cash. His student loans are putting a damper on his ready cash supply. Luckily, he just came by an advertisement that will help just a touch with his financial troubles. A university professor is paying twenty-five bucks a session for a drug trial. The best part is the thousand dollars promised at the end of the sessions. Easy money, what college kid could resist a chance at it. The test drug turns out to be a male enhancement drug. Jason being young and virile has no problems there. However, since the graduate student ...

Jerry’s boss rewards him with a surprise trip to Thailand with all expenses paid. It’s an offer too good to be true, so naturally there’s a hook. His boss needs Jerry to travel with him because Jerry is needed to entertain his boss’s girlfriend’s friend. Apparently, his girlfriend can’t be happy unless her special friend is happy too. As his boss explains it, a happy girlfriend is a good girlfriend, so he needs to find this friend a man to date for the length of the vacation. It seems to be a small price to pay for an all-expense paid vacation, so Jerry agrees to a blind date. ...

Chris has been friends with Annabelle since they were kids. When Chris is feeling down on his luck he knows he can always go to his friend to be cheered up. Today he's feeling down. His dream prom date Samantha has turned him down. Hoping to get cheered up, he goes over to Annabelle's house knowing she'll be there for him. Indeed, she's already got a plan in the works for him that she guarantees will win Samantha's heart. She knows how to save his prom experience and have him end high school the way he's always dreamed it would end. All he has to do is play along with her plans. Chris ...

Ben’s a competitive guy by nature and his chosen field of competition is action figure collecting. He’s got the second-best collection in town and the number one guy is on his way out. That means Ben has a golden chance at buying up the number one’s collection at auction, and thus move on up to the top spot. The only problem with his plan is the inconvenient fact that Ben’s money source, his mom, is sick of him spending all his time collecting action figures instead of dating. She’s put her foot down. There’s to be no more money until he finds a girl. What a nightmare! Every ...

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