BurnAfterReading

Christopher - Run in With Tanner

I met Tanner in 6th grade, back when my family lived in North Carolina. My friend group at the time was based out of proximity to each other. All of our dads were in the military and we basically all lived in the same copy/paste neighborhood a few miles from the military base. You got used to friends, at the drop of a hat, packing up and moving away, never to be seen again. The upside was the empty house would quickly get rented and new friends like Tanner would come along.

Tanner was b...

James - Toppin' Calvin

Born in the backwoods of Louisiana, in 1983, I had an All-American lifestyle growin' up. My old man was high up on the food chain for Mobile Oil and traveled a lot for work. My older sister was often in charge as my mother worked as a night nurse at the local hospital. By the time I turned 16 in 1999, my sister had gone off to college already and was only home over the holidays and summer.

Lucky for me, my parents only set a couple of rules:

-No parties

-No drugs

-Do n...

Eli - Euro-trippin

I’ll admit it, I was a judgy bitch. Born in 1981 I grew up knowing you’d have to be an idiot to have sex with another guy without a condom. I knew without a doubt that I was gay when I was 11 years old, watching Home Improvement and I felt something special for Jonathan Taylor Thomas. One thing we all learned in the early 90s was unprotected sex, straight or gay, was going to give you an instant STD, a baby, or death. You couldn’t use a public restroom without seeing ads for ST...

Tags

I'm going to start posting stories without tags and then add the tags when the next story gets posted. I kinda feel like having the tags in your face before you read the story it kinda takes away any question of what's going to happen in this story.  Adding the tags later, so people can sort the stories as they get older will be nice.  

I feel like if I was going to see The Empire Strikes Back and underneath it said, "plot twist, Vader is Luke's father" I'd be annoyed. Also, *...

Ty - "Maybe we should try it"

The words, "maybe we should just try it," are six words that bounce around in my head the way song lyrics do for other people.

In the fall of 1990, I was fresh out of high school going to GW studying political science among other things. My roommate was a bit of a jock, he was on the football team back in high school. Not good enough for a scholarship, but it still looked good on his applications and frankly shows in his physique.

I suffer from a bit of Ugly Duckling Syndrome. I h...

Kyle - Good-Touch Bad-Touch

I think the good-touch bad-touch conversation was lost on me. I was already in the early stages of puberty when I got the talk and my hormonal brain didn't see a problem with a hot stranger touching me in my private areas. Hell, I enjoyed touching myself there, if anyone wanted to do that to me...I was in.

That launched a regular fantasy for me that carried me into high school. I didn't have easy access to porn in 1992, so using my imagination needed to do the job. Tha...

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 15, so yeah, not new.

Living in Chicago there’s a pretty decent amount of guys on the Grindr grid in my neighborhood. I moved here for work right after graduation. Starting at the bottom at an architectural firm one of my professors was able to help me get in contact with. I work lo...

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 going from latte to wine like handing off the baton in the daily race from getting out of bed to climbing into bed. Unfortunately, I had student loans to pay, and as my parents pointed out, “traveling will give you something to write about.” Little did I understand, the glory of being a flight at...

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 in denial and thought my sexploits with guys was “just a phase.”

The summer between my sophomore and junior year, I was drunk and horny with no prospects. Naturally, I did what any other guy would do, I started sliding into the DMs of friends on social media. Most conversations went nowhere...

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 imagine everything was tight. The living space was cramped, and money didn't fall off the trees either. Oh, and as a gay boy with a catholic mom who immigrated from the Dominican Republic, “diversity” was a good thing for skin color but not for sexual identity.

With such tight quarter...

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 second child so there was a lot of masculine energy around the home. Especially when my sister moved out. I was child number 5, so you can imagine by the time I was in high school my parent's rules were pretty relaxed. To the point where I had girlfriends in my room and my parents didn’t care they j...

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 in the "vault" aka Google Drive, that I'm unsure if you all are interested in reading as the feedback has been a little low.

So, let's run it up the flagpole and see what topics we're looking for in future uploads:

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 took a long time to get into my system. So I had a second before the first had kicked in. When both edibles had kicked in, along with a few drinks, I was really enjoying myself at this party.

Unfortunately, at the height of the party, some girl had too much to drink and projectile vomited on the ...

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 when I “get older.” I had a few run-ins with adults who found me a little too attractive, nothing traumatizing, but certainly inappropriate.

As a teen in a Colorado high school, I knew I was gay, but in 1998 with what happened to Matthew Shephard, there was no way I was coming out or even ...

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 and his girlfriend Amber were planning to elope.

Jeremy and I went to high school together in Texas, then went to UT together where he met Amber and I slept with a few dozen women but never got attached to any of them. I’m not a big guy, 5’6” around 140 lbs but I’m lean. I have always b...

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, “I snuck out last night and got fucked by a college guy,” but I didn’t, I just smiled and agreed.

My panic over being accidentally barebacked by Evan when the condom broke had worn off after about 48 hours, or maybe just because the extended family had left and I was able to drop my pants...

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 basement. I was stuck on the couch.

I was 19, I didn’t go to college, and was still living at home, oh and I’m gay, but the only people who know I’m gay are the guys I’ve had sex with. The extended family showed up a few days ago, so I’ve been without privacy for more than 48 hours and i...

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 student loans more importantly. So I was experiencing adulthood for real and the stress was getting to me.

I was horny and it had been a while since I had sex with a girl and even longer since I hooked up with a guy. I remember having gone out for karaoke with friends after work on Friday and gettin...

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 for me, even though it was just the interview it was still a big deal at this point.

This was a Wednesday night and most of my friends had regular 9 to 5 jobs so they wanted to celebrate my milestone on the weekend, but I was too excited to just go home. Since I was already dressed nice for the ...

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 us because we disbanded when we went to college in 2005. We mostly did cover songs, but had some original songs.

We played mostly at high school parties and the occasional venue where we were paid with food and non-alcoholic drinks. It was still fun for us, but it would always be a night of co...

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 played basketball on my high school team but wasn’t nearly good enough to get a scholarship, hello student loans. My boy Travis was the star of the team, but he got his girl pregnant senior year and that was the end of him going to college, instead, he went straight to working with his old man at the...

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 new to meeting up with guys for sex, in fact, I had taken the baby step to acceptance by having stopped blocking guys immediately after I let them fuck me. I actually had a guy who was a sort of regular hookup at this point.

I wouldn’t say “regular” in that we fucked often, but since liter...

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 struggling with my sexuality to an extent, certainly deep in the closet at this point.

I was still telling myself that sex with guys was only when I was really horny and masturbation wasn’t cutting it. I always played safe, well not always, but I tried to. This was before PrEP. So as far as I was ...

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 going.

Unlike NYC, LA closes down or starts at around 2 am.

My friend went home and I back to my hotel. Curiosity had me on Grindr before I was out of the elevator.

The great thing about traveling is you can have a blank profile (not recommending) and still get a bunch of hits. The al...

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 classes at UCLA in the fall. I was all of 5’7” and 120 lbs soaking wet. My father was an immigrant from Cuba, my mother a former beauty queen from Georgia, I was a surprise to both of them. So were my two younger siblings.

My father had taken a new job managing a construction company base...

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 with one of my brothers or my parents, but I was not taking any risks. I rented a car and drove down, got a hotel near my parents, and posted up there for a couple of days.

Last night in town I wanted to get to bed early, I had to get up at 6:30 am to head back home to NYC and get the car back...

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 we drove together because we were working together on the same project. That was both fun and annoying at times.

My friend was a good guy, but 24 hours a day, for 7 days straight was a lot of anyone you’re not dating. He didn’t know I was bisexual, so that was frustrating on its own. I was ...

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 had already made a good amount of his own money. I on the other hand was living in New York City and had a massive amount of student loan debt.

The opportunity seemed too good to pass up, so I agreed to uproot my life and move to Atlanta from NYC. I would stay in the spare room, in his pentho...