Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Humans.
Many Loves in Many Places
It was in the early spring when I had found a moment, during my jolt to the City, to sit down with my feelings in Union Square. With a new book that I picked up at the bookstore, trying to explain my own headspace to my intergenerational boyfriend of 3 years was a feat that I had to overcome. Competing only with coming out as a young gay man, the coming out that my generation and upbringing had granted me to not thoroughly do in the traditional sense, the thoughts of the confrontation were tearing at the heart. The love was real. But I was not going to be broken by my realization of these feelings. The therapy that I needed was hopefully found within the pages of the book in my lap. I surely wasn’t getting any leads from the outside.
By Seth Tyler Black8 years ago in Humans
Crossed Wires
Standing at 5'6", I'm only in control of 4'7" myself. The 11 inches above my neck are foreign. My mouth often says things faster than my brain can actually process them, which often portrays a different picture to my listening ear than I intended. My eyes often see things out of a lens that I’m not sure many other people can understand, let alone see. My limbic system, it's constantly in fight or flight mode and my temporal lobe often seems like it does not exist. My amygdala has a good memory, however often has trouble paying attention.
By Dani Vinci8 years ago in Humans
Engaged in College With Some Doubt
It was supposed to be a normal day with a normal date at the beach in May. I had slept in (the night before I had volunteered to help at my church’s lock-in for the youth group so I hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep until 7 a.m. that morning). Little did I know that my life was about to change. That was the day I got engaged to my boyfriend of four and a half years. I was so excited! The first people I told were my sorority sisters (because in those days I was a college cliche). Congratulations poured in from friends and family on Facebook. About two hours later, we arrived at my parent’s house. My mom and grandma hugged me and congratulated me. My dad said “I’ll congratulate you on your 20th anniversary.” Things were great. Then, a couple weeks later, I began to realize that things were beginning to sour around me.
By Odalys Bailey8 years ago in Humans
Plenty of (Dead) Fish
I made it to 31. One year older and another year wiser. I was out enjoying drinks with my younger sister, and after many laughs and shots she suggested that I join a popular dating app that millions of people use. She stated that she knows couples who have met through the site and some have even gotten married. I was unsure about it. After reading countless stories of dates going wrong, I dismissed her sentiment. As 2018 approached I thought of all the countless things I want to carry out in the coming year. One of those accomplishments is to discover love and happiness.
By teisha leshea8 years ago in Humans
Tinder Date Gone Wrong...
*names have been changed in this story* Summer 2014. A couple weeks ago my boyfriend/best friend had broken my heart, telling me he had decided to join the Army and he didn't want me to wait for him. It was one of the hardest breakups I had gone through, especially for the fact I could see myself marrying him.
By Samantha Baker8 years ago in Humans
An End to Two Years
Let me take you back to January 10, 2016: A day that changed my life forever in the best way possible, I would definitely say. I was at work on my lunch break when in comes a text from my then-boyfriend whom I had not really heard much from for the past couple weeks. Things were definitely rocky between the two of us.
By Hayley Cross8 years ago in Humans
Breakups Suck
No amount of advice help to ease the pain of a breakup, cause let's face it breakups really, really suck. Having your significant other, the one who you saw and planned your future with. The one you spend all your time and effort on walking out of your life no matter if you decided to call it quit or you had it chosen for you, is a heartache.
By Bailee Schmidt8 years ago in Humans
Identities
I will never forget when I first realized that I wasn’t normal. I remember realizing I was attracted t I was actually a young child, so I suppose that they were only girls, but I was too, and in any case I had little to no interest in the opposite sex, other than wanting to be friends with them. I didn’t understand why anyone did like boys like that. Boys were dirty and gross and too much like me, in all honesty-even though I was rejected by all of them for friendship purposes because I was a “girl”, and I should do “girly” things. Girls were pretty and they were somewhat nicer to me (because I was a “girl”, and I guess that was good enough reason to tolerate me at least, even if they didn’t like me.) But I would never tell anyone that. How could I tell anyone that I had a crush on a girl?
By Aiden Mullins8 years ago in Humans
Red Flag Date
Have you ever been encouraged to go on a blind date? Maybe you were merely pressured to join an online dating site, because you friends felt as though you were alone on the weekends while your children were spending their weekends with their father.
By Deborah Portillo8 years ago in Humans
The Single Reason Why Your Relationship Might Be Failing
Many people consider relationships as 'having found their other half'. We go from being whole to being half of something, a complete person only when we are with someone else. We allow our minds to be content with the fact that our lives are not truly our own, and that the ultimate definition of love is to forgo part of yourself with someone else by choice, believing that our lives are enhanced by the presence of something foreign to you. I am by no means an expert in the love department. I've had my fair share of boyfriends who have cheated on me, broken up with me, discovered their sexuality with me and even given the v-card by a boy I loved who trusted that I would know what to do. Even then, I am no love expert. What I do know is that while none of the men in my past have much in common with one another, there is still one deep, underlying fact that remains the same: our relationships eventually ended because we succumbed to self-abandonment in some way, shape or form.The honest definition of self-abandonment is to allow your true self to lie dormant in your relationship emotionally, physically, mentally, financially, spiritually and even socially, which opens the door for your partner to be responsible for you as a person.
By Delilah Jayde8 years ago in Humans
