BurnAfterReading

Joey - "Him"

When this all started I had only come out about 18 months before, after graduating college at Iowa State. I wasn’t new to gay sex and hookups, in fact, I got my cherry popped when I was ...

Jamie - Peter in a Blizzard

In 2004 I was working as a flight attendant, which is funny because I graduated college in 2002 with a BA in English Literature. I thought I would be living in France working on a novel at a Cafe g...

True Friendship

In the first two years of college, I made a lot of really good friends. I was still figuring out my sexuality at this point. I would eventually identify as bisexual, but at this period I was very i...

Xander - Wasting Condoms

Born and raised in NYC, I lived and breathed a world of diversity, at least outside of the apartment.

Living in Queens with a single mom, an older brother, and a younger brother, you can imag...

Eric - Down the Research Rabbit Hole

In 2002 I was straight, 100% heterosexual. So much so I never had a thought about gay sex, it never crossed my mind.

I grew up in a large family, with 6 kids, only one girl and she was the se...

Stories in the Vault

Hey everyone, I hope you're enjoying what has been uploaded thus far.

I'm just trying to get a read on what you're looking for in future uploads. I've written a bunch of stories that are i...

Sketchy Drunk Hookup

I had been at a party in Harlem after a long week at a job I hated. I don't usually party hard, but this particular night I started with an edible, which was a first for me and I didn't know it too...

Preston - The Lit TA

When you’re confident and good-looking, you can pretty much get away with anything. I’m both of those things. I grew up with adults telling me how good-looking I am, and how handsome I’ll be ...

Carlos - Vegas Wedding

In 1995 I was 22 years old, traveling with my best friend Jeremy to Vegas for what was promised to be a wild weekend. What he failed to mention was that we were actually going to Vegas because he a...

Riley - New Year's Eve Surprise

Christmas came and went. Everyone joked all day about how tired I looked, making cracks at me being young and not used to getting up early with the kids and blah blah blah. I wanted to tell them, �...

Riley - Twas The Night Before Christmas

Christmas Eve 1998 I was sleeping on the couch in my parent's living room. My family was hosting Christmas this year, so every single bedroom was packed, along with the “bonus room” in the base...

There's a Second Ring?!

I was fresh out of college and living on my own in Brooklyn. I was still deep in the closet, deeper in denial, and started working 60 hours per week at a job I hated to pay the bills and the studen...

I'm A Bad Wingman

I had just left an interview at a major network to start freelancing in their news division. I was 25 and had been freelancing for about a year and it wasn't easy, so this was kind of a big deal fo...

Ryan - Heaven is a Place on Earth

Back in 2003, I was a sophomore in high school in a small town not far from Cincinnati. My friends Adam, Landon, and his girlfriend Deana had started a garage band, you probably haven’t heard of ...

Marcus - Roll Tide

In 1998 I had been in college at the University of Alabama, (Roll Tide!) for two years already. I was born and raised in Midway, Alabama, so going to college was more than a privilege for me. I pla...

An Unexpected Reunion

Back in my “blank profile” days on Grindr, I was still very much in denial about my sexuality and so deep in the closet you could’ve turned on a light and you wouldn’t find me. I was not ne...

This One's Done

It was somewhere around 2009, I was done with film school and working gig to gig. Mostly working paycheck to paycheck at this shit job in an equipment rental house/studio in the city. Still struggl...

Zero Degrees of Separation

I was in LA for work. I flew in the Friday before so I would have the weekend to hang with friends. That Saturday night I was out with a buddy and had a couple of drinks and a gummy that got me goi...

Elijah - I like to play a game

It was 1987, my family had recently moved from a small town in Florida all the way across the country to San Deigo, California. I had turned 18 a few weeks after the move and was preparing to start...

Popperbate Gone Wild

I was in NC for a family gathering. With COVID-19 going around I had avoided visiting for the holidays, but my mother insisted I had to come down for this.

Normally I would fly down and stay ...

You're going to pull out right?

I had been working in Atlanta for a full week. Staying in my friend's penthouse condo. It was really nice, I had my own room and he gave me my choice of his cars to drive. But more often than not w...

Layover Lay

About 6 months out of film school, one of my former and wealthier classmates reached out with an idea to start a production studio in Atlanta where he lived. He was one of those trust fund guys who...