Coerced by fear, I was told to appear naked before My sovereign broham, and his willing peers. “If you don't like it, find another way 'round.” I protested, but autonomy had become the minority. Coerced by fear. Liberty was...

When last we left Sam, he was under house arrest, plotting to end his contract in Heaven by destroying physical reality. Tied to my chair, a grand plan for how to transfer everything from physical...

Watching box office records being broken these days is like watching the Olympics, if performance-enhancing drugs were permitted. With year after year of record breakers, it seems like the Hollywood culture machine — despite...

For a brief moment, my escape attempt felt glorious and pure. I was whooping and hollering. Screaming and shouting. I felt alive for the first time since I died, and it was miraculous. ...

Before I knew much of anything about the world or myself, I knew I was a boy. Dressed in blue and constantly being called a “cute little boy,” the idea of my gender was...

Cooing, gurgling and babbling is the young child and old fool — or so I'm told by the adults of this world, who laugh to one another with amused resentment at the ignorance of...

When people professed to me that they loved someone, I used to ask them questions like “If that person killed someone, would you still love them?” Doing this, I found that in a good...