Pamela Toh is dead set on being the “bad kid” at school, and on a family vacation to Disney, Matthew Dicks becomes more and more frustrated by his daughter’s strange behavior.
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When Christine Gentry moves across the country to California, she struggles to find community, and after moving to Beirut, Lebanon from the U.S., Mary Ann Perkins doesn’t understand why everyone keeps staring at her.
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As the team principal of the autonomous racing team, Madhur Behl is determined to win, and Engineer Mate King searches for a plane that crashed in the remote mountains of Idaho.
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After fully embracing their asexuality, Katherine Holmes begins questioning the necessity of a romantic relationship, and Julie Tomé is thrown for a loop when her child announces they’re “not a girl”.
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Growing up in sexually conservative Ireland, Connor O’Donoghue is completely in the dark about sex, sexuality, and anatomy, and Justina Assaad thinks the nausea she’s feeling while waiting to go parasailing is just a fluke.
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As someone who values language, Jerzy Gwiazdowski is thrown into turmoil when his partner says “suposably,” and no one can ever say Casie Caldwell’s name correctly and it makes her furious.
Read MoreIncompetence: Stories about lacking skills
As a student, Emily Pitts was never a fan of science, but now, as a middle school teacher, she’s not feeling confident in her skills to teach the subject, and despite his deep desire to study science, Andrew Barnes is constantly told he can’t.
Read MoreMothering: Stories about being a mom
Silvana Clark finds a bat in her newborn’s room and thinks it may have bitten her baby, and Leah Moore navigates the challenges of raising a daughter with cri-du-chat syndrome alongside her other children with their own special needs.
Read MoreBirds & The Bees: Stories about sex
A new baby and a new job make Edith Gonzalez feel distant from her husband, so she decides to spice things up, and while working at the zoo, Lee Osorio learns a lot about zoo animal sex and himself.
Read MoreImposter Syndrome: Stories about not feeling good enough
Sarah Demers has this nagging feeling she’s not a real physicist, and after dropping out of college, Kevin Smiley can’t seem to shake his feelings of inadequacy.
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