Litsa Dremousis recalls bringing her first boyfriend home for the holidays.

When does family optimism, and that “you can do it” sentiment become an invitation to disaster?

After the funeral, you still have to go back to work. The song choices of a complete stranger just might get you through it.

A short story by G.K. Wuori.

On a dark, frigid evening in New York City at TNB’s Literary Experience Robin Antalek broke her silence on the long and tortured relationship she shared with the man in the big red suit. How she drew blood upon their first meeting and why Santa and Jesus were forever linked in her twisted little lapsed Catholic mind were among the secrets she revealed exclusively to the TNB crowd gathered at The Happy Ending Lounge.

Ducky Wilson contends that curiosity will land you in jail with a hooker from Pecos City and a donut lady who killed her good-for-nothing husband with a frying pan.