In a raw Pop Cast interview, Jessica and Amber Lodes discuss their two years homeless and unclothed in Tucson. They describe enduring constant sexual violence, viewing their nudity not as the cause but as a choice reclaiming their bodies. Now living in a mountain home, they maintain their clothing-free lifestyle as an act of freedom. They explain their complex healing process, which includes voluntarily returning to the street to face their trauma on their own terms.
It's Rebecca's first day in the eighth grade and the fourteen year old girl is excited. Her whole life she has been dreaming of this moment, the day when she will finally be queen of the school. For the eighth grade is the highest grade at Robert E. Lee Middle School. She had heard the big brouhaha about the changing of the school district, the redrawing of its boundaries and the busing in of kids from some of the housing projects in West End but she hadn't paid it any mind.
A 16 year old boy who has experimented with homosexual behavior scores a date with his dream girl, but events before, during and after his date convince him that he is really gay
In a world dominated by women where men are nothing but objects, a woman on a pilgrimage to get in touch with her own power and her Goddess, arrives at a temple, and three men pledged to service abase themselves at her feet and worship her as she relaxes.
Harry was more a writer than an author. In his mind he wrote pulp fiction rather than anything seriously literary and it was a circumstance that suited him all things considered.
Fourteen-year-old Serrah is sold as a slave in 1773 by the father of the son Serrah was lying down for in Sierra Leone, Africa, because the father wants perfectly formed Serrah for himself. The boy is manhandled by the British slavers and sailors on the Middle Passage voyage that lands him in South Carolina Colony to survive or not on his back on Daufuskie and Hilton Head Islands until his talent and perseverance get him to the brothels of Savannah and control of his own destiny.