I was sitting in my room thinking how lucky I was to be here in London. It seemed like just the other day when my world had turned upside down. I left my home in Kenya when a woman whom I thought was my friend told me about a job at Pathfinder International, a non-profit… Read More Rehema’s Story
“That was invigorating, wasn’t it?” Briony said, looking at Tadeas. They were standing at the paddock after they had returned from horse riding. They were on her family’s farm just outside of London. They had driven up there just after ten in the morning. It was a beautiful day so it was a treat exploring… Read More On the Farm
“Aren’t you going to get ready?” Mr. Pendlebury asked Antonia. “Laird and his fiancée will be here soon.” She was tempted to say that she didn’t want to get ready because she didn’t want to have dinner with them. However, she couldn’t deny that she was curious to meet this woman who had stolen Laird’s… Read More Dinner with Laird and Martina
It was a Sunday evening and Laird was visiting his childhood home in Oxfordshire. He was there to tell his father about his engagement to Martina. The old man would probably be shocked because he always held the view that his younger son wasn’t the marrying kind and that it would take a really special… Read More Old Stomping Ground
“I wish I could stay for a while,” Rachel said to her brother. They were outside on his porch. It was Saturday and she had brought her daughter, Emily to spend the day with him. “Why can’t you?” he asked. She sighed. “I have to go grocery shopping, to the cleaners and then, I’m going… Read More Out With Shiloh and Emily
And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity – Leviticus 20:17 Looking at us, no one… Read More A Shameful Secret
We are on our honeymoon. I still can’t believe it. We met last year in my senior year when he came to my school to talk about the flying future. He was a Chinese-American businessman, the CEO of a large and prestigious company which I thought was pretty cool for a guy who was only… Read More Salome and Aslan
I’m a Somalian student who met and fell in love with an older Lebanese man. I met him through a mutual friend during Ramadan. I was immediately attracted to him and I could tell that he was attracted to me too but the friend who introduced us warned me not to get my hopes up.… Read More Afiya’s Story
Tatiana Walters was heading home after class when she spotted Alexei Novik, the Belarusian guy who was in her Psychology class. They spoke a couple of times. He seemed quiet and reserved. She liked him and wondered if he would think her very forward if she were to ask him out on a date. She… Read More The First Date
I’m Elna, a Catholic school-girl and sexually active. My grandmother doesn’t know and none of my friends do either. When they talk about losing their virginity or abstaining until they get married, I keep quiet. I don’t say anything. The other day when one of them asked me, “So, are you going to wait until… Read More Elna’s Secret
Notes to Women 