2nd Story

In her first excruciating weeks at an acting conservatory, Julie Ganey considers becoming someone else, both onstage and off.

A young man shares a New York apartment with a childhood friend who’s grown up to become a self-involved womanizer. But he can’t bring himself to move out.

First love, breakup sex, and Shakespeare.

"Lusty." "Perverts." "Horny." Words that sound out of place in a public school classroom, especially when spoken by the world’s best social studies teacher. Even the simplest things—pop songs on the radio, innocent questions from friends—can unlock dangerous secrets.

Sara K. once had a temporary job as a relay operator, facilitating phone calls for the hearing-impaired. This is the story of one particular call—a personal call. It was three-and-a-half-hours long. And let’s just say she got a little too in to it.

When an overzealous father tries to teach his teenage sons how to chop down a tree with an axe, the way Thoreau did, the situation turns life-threatening and the battle between man and nature takes an unexpected turn.

A chance encounter between strangers in a ladies' room creates a connection that transcends time.

Not your typical father/daughter story. With her dad at the piano, Rosie relives her childhood as a Broadway star. From Annie to Cabaret, this dynamic duo takes their show on the road—and learns the real world isn't as kind as the living room.

"I like to believe that people are born good, that humanity distinguishes itself from the rest of the animal world by our capacity for love and generosity and goodness. That there is no such thing as a 'bad seed.’ But when you know a man like Mark Fox, you are forced to re-consider some things you think you know about the world."

A novice leatherdyke holds all things SM sacred and Granny—an old hand in the SM scene—might as well be the Lone Ranger. A decade later, the novice makes a confession, and it has to do with Granny’s leathers. . .

One winter evening a lonely, heartbroken young man receives a surprise visit from his wayward older brother, who teaches him that the loss of innocence can lead to unexpected epiphanies.

Through thick and thin, highs and lows, awesome adventures and hideous relationships, Molly Each has always been able to count on her best friend. In addition to solid friendship and hilarious hijinks, the fact that he's a guy means she can count on him to be there in the end if all other relationships have failed. But what happens to their friendship when her Plan B guy joins the married world?

Join Jeffrey, the young budding writer, for one unusual music-filled summer night full of many surprising firsts, beginning with a Parisian-style artist salon populated with drunk poets, dancing painters and. . . oh, yeah, fighting jugglers too.

The nights are silent, but a bit uncomfortable in Bobby Biedrzycki's eerie Christmas tale, "The Girls." The story chronicles the experiences of a young boy, and his attempt to make sense of the world around him, as local girls begin to go missing from his small Minnesota town during what is supposed to be an otherwise happy holiday season.

Working overtime on her 26th birthday, Margot receives a surprise visitor: an aging woman dressed in a dingy, pink gorilla suit, who just won’t stop singing.