Tag: sex and the single brain cell
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Dee, Friendships & The Delayed Departure/Dismissal [A Short Story]
Friendships seemed simpler in the past. In the third grade I noticed this blonde kid on the bus...
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Older Fellow Attempts Modern Dating [A Short Story]
He couldn’t remember the last time he found himself taking a leisurely evening stroll on Ocean...
![There’s a Whole in My Life [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Not-Full-By-Choice-no-attribution.png?resize=627%2C376&ssl=1)
There’s a Whole in My Life [A Short Story]
10:51 PM. Just a note or two before I drift off to sleep. I wish there was some meaningful way of...
![Three AM at The Beach, Remembering the First Love That Wasn’t [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pexels-photo-7181902.jpeg?resize=627%2C376&ssl=1)
Three AM at The Beach, Remembering the First Love That Wasn’t [A Short Story]
This is an intimate place. I wish that I would have come here before. Had I known about it,...
Imagination or Memory: Love is Love
Some things are better left to imagination. A chance encounter, a sly smile, a brief scent of...
![Fall Out From Unexpected Handholding in Aerobics Class [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pexels-photo-32627101.jpeg?resize=627%2C376&ssl=1)
Fall Out From Unexpected Handholding in Aerobics Class [A Short Story]
It was my ex’s idea that we join a gym. It’s not my fault that I lost all the weight and really...
![Questions At the Edge of a Stream of Lights [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pexels-photo-9548515.jpeg?resize=627%2C376&ssl=1)
Questions At the Edge of a Stream of Lights [A Short Story]
Her apartment complex sits just beyond the edge of the river of lights. Just beyond the incessant...
Does Anyone Feel Good After Watching “Love Actually”?
When Love Actually was released in 2003 I’m pretty sure that I wasn’t in a good place as far as...
Gratitude Challenge: Day 8: Family, Friends & Lovers
For the month of November I’m participating in a daily gratitude challenge posted by the...
Video Fridays: Reception
Here’s a bittersweet tale for y’all who’ve ever been the third wheel, torn with your own feelings...
Video Fridays: 2020 Seasons Greetings from Joe & Deb
2020… So, I didn’t get any holiday cards done and sent this year. I decided that I...
Sex & the Single Brain-Cell: Breast Augmentation Fall-Out
If there was ever a time when one of my journal archives could have been more visual than wordy…...
SEX AND THE SINGLE BRAIN CELL: Sexual Ethics & The Resulting Internal Dialogues
Spring Cleaning continues… The following is the third of a series of three columns that I wrote in...
SEX AND THE SINGLE BRAIN CELL: When She Says ‘Maybe’
Spring Cleaning continues… The following is the second of a series of three columns that I wrote...
SEX AND THE SINGLE BRAIN CELL: I Survived the EET . . . Kind’a
Spring Cleaning, or a sorts, I’ve been scanning in boxes and boxes of old essays and various bits...
Not Missing the Piece
After having a casual conversation with an attractive coworker, I pondered the puzzle of having...
