Category: Sex and the Single Brain Cell
Musings on Modern Relationships, like the articles in adult magazines except without all that sex.
![Dee, Friendships & The Delayed Departure/Dismissal [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pexels-photo-9887430.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Friendships seemed simpler in the past. In the third grade I noticed this blonde kid on the bus ride home who was ...
![Older Fellow Attempts Modern Dating [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2001-03-27-Sunset-at-Santa-Monica.jpg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
He couldn’t remember the last time he found himself taking a leisurely evening stroll on Ocean Front in Newport. ...
![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=400%2C284&ssl=1)
10:51 PM. Just a note or two before I drift off to sleep. I wish there was some meaningful way of summing up the ...
![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=400%2C284&ssl=1)
This is an intimate place. I wish that I would have come here before. Had I known about it, I'm sure I would have. ...
Some things are better left to imagination. A chance encounter, a sly smile, a brief scent of perfume, why ruin ...
![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=400%2C284&ssl=1)
It was my ex’s idea that we join a gym. It’s not my fault that I lost all the weight and really got into the whole ...
Human sexuality, much less gender identification, is a lot for a teenager to deal with. Growing up a child of the ...
![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=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Her apartment complex sits just beyond the edge of the river of lights. Just beyond the incessant procession of ...
Introduction: What is the point of having emotions? Having spent 20-years working with elementary and middle ...
When Love Actually was released in 2003 I’m pretty sure that I wasn’t in a good place as far as “true love” and ...
Today would have been my friend, Kimberly’s 49th birthday. She wasn’t my best friend and we didn’t know each other ...
Here’s a bittersweet tale for y’all who’ve ever been the third wheel, torn with your own feelings but wanting the ...
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