“We need to do something to drum up some trade,” Mal sighed, his hand stroking my arse as we leant against the bar, gazing out over a nearly empty pub. After a few minutes of silence, he looked at me with a sly smile. “Do you like dancing?” “Yes,” I respo...
I was bored. I had left school that summer with no qualifications and the stern warning from my teachers that, if I carried on like this, I would amount to nothing. Unemployed and living with my Mum and her latest boyfriend in a small flat on a run-down i...
Stacey stood in the cramped hallway of the flat she shared with her mother and brother and brushed her long brown hair. She was getting ready to meet her friends, hang out in the play park and watch the world go by, just like all the teenagers did every o...
Kayleigh was my best mate growing up. We’d grown up on this estate, living in flats on the third floor. She’d thought the storybooks with children having gardens were so exotic. No one we knew had a garden. Everyone just had the balcony and in the summer,...
I'd always wondered if I was gay, but I'd never had the nerves to find out. I didn't know any gay people, and where I grew up most people were homophobic, so I never had a chance to experiment. I'd tried getting with girls but something always felt empty...
As I turned the shower off, the first sound I heard was the sound of my friend, Jessie, laughing. The kind of cackling laughter that you just know is going to end badly for someone. In this instance I had a sinking feeling that it was going to be me. I dr...
