By Rae Fine In middle school I wasn’t really attracted to anyone – it was middle school, everyone was awkward and gross. But everyone around me was discovering their status as sexual beings, however mild those sexual feelings or encounters might have been. Once an acquaintance of mine asked if I liked any boys. “No,”…
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The See-Saw Family
By Jess Wells Here are parts five and six of Jess Wells’s nine-part story, “The See-Saw Family.” Look for more from Jess in future issues of Bi Women. Coy on a Barstool Lesbianism is the land of the outward women. The self-made women. If there’s one cultural trait that you can attribute to lesbians it’s…
A Case for Sensitivity Training
By Tracy Note: This play is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events may or may not be coincidental. SCENE 1: BOSS’S OFFICE The boss is sitting at his desk. Tracy enters. Tracy: Good morning. I have the status reports ready for you. Boss: Excellent! Thank you for getting them done so quickly….
More from Jess Wells…
As promised, here is the next installment of Jess Wells’s ninepart story, “The See-Saw Family”: Future Tense Simon leans back against the kitchen sink and wants to know why I don’t call myself heterosexual now. I proclaim, almost with hostility, that it would be to suggest that the last 23 years of lesbianism was a…
Restless
By Lara Zielinsky The hour rolled over. 3:59. 4:00. Four a.m. Cassidy’s eyes slowly rotated away from the digital clock’s red numbers, taking in the deep shadows of the rest of the room as she lay on her back. The desk lay outlined with its lamp stalk hunched over piles of papers. The ladder struts…
Fish Nets
By Monica Meneghetti I unlace Rita’s twenty-eyelet boots. Carpet fibres embed themselves in my kneecaps. I imagine the carpet as orange shag because Lord Nelson Inn feels so old. Rita sits on the end of the orange and-brown-clad bed, sits on the synthetic bedspread and pulls off her boots. Her dark hair draws a curtain…