Meron Langsner plays the perpetrator in reversals of attempted assault.
Fear & Courage
Pissing My Pants: Betraying My Manliness at the Sight of Needles
Jamie Reidy’s fear of needles is getting better, but he’s still taking it a step at a time.
Fear and Love in the Time of AIDS
Donald D’Haene’s date with fear taught him the real meaning of love.
A Practical Guide to Bravery
Carl Pettit offers a taxonomy of bravery for the rest of us to emulate.
A Modern Day Hero’s Journey Is What Today’s Boy Needs to Become a Man
The entire reason we have such a thing as a quarter life crisis, and later a mid-life crisis, is because boys and young men lack meaningful rite-of-passage experiences.
Eating the Elephant
I find it hard to say whether I have mild or severe cerebral palsy, because my condition affects my entire life.
Love in the Time of Lymphoma
When Daniel Haack was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 22, he started using a different line at bars: “Hey, my name’s Daniel, and I have cancer.”
The Sniper
More fiction from Richard Aubrey.
Why Steven Seagal Doesn’t Have Shit On My Dad
Heroism isn’t about victory, writes Travis Gasper. It’s about a will to survive.
Your Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign Probably Isn’t Helping Me
Why is it that the majority persists on making violence a gender issue? And how does showing that women can also be violent and abusive somehow soften the horror of any act of violence by a man?
Fear Less
Being fearless consists of much more than denying what you’re afraid of, Dan Griffin writes.
Confronting Myself
Staring into the darkness, Trent M. Kays is forced to reflect on who he really is.
Is Homophobia a ‘Phobia?’
What if straight men are more afraid of similarities than differences?
What If They Really, Really Don’t Like Me?
Marcus Williams knows what it’s like to hide from fear. Now he’s trying something different.
My Partisans
Some say you need a village to get over a divorce, Steven Axelrod writes, but he had something else.
How I Learned to Quit Hitch Hiking
You never know when two escaped convicts are gonna pick you up and try to teach you a lesson.