My Story
Ron!
We’ve all been there.
But who to choose?
I thought of the monosyllabic wrestler in eleventh grade who on our one date got drunk, barfed, then successfully coerced me into making out with him. The manic-depressive white rapper. The drummer with unprecedented B.O.. The male model who said “supposably” and didn’t know who Aretha Franklin was. And the guy I chased around in college, then ran into a few years later wandering down Santa Monica Boulevard in full, fascinatingly ruined-looking drag.
But then, joyfully breaking free from the pack, came Ron…
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This is the story of all of them. All inexplicable.
Henry McWilliams, fourth grade. Indianapolis. The only other kid in my class who voted for Mondale in our fake election. Doesn’t notice me, doesn’t know.
Fifth grade, Brian Bond. He runs away from school one day, taking off like a spooked animal, sprinting across the rolling expanse of grass between the school and the neighborhood behind it. We all gather at the window to watch him go. I love him instantly. This is the beginning of a lifelong trend. We go together for a few weeks. He breaks up with me in a note…
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Hot for teacher
by » Ashley Meeks
Okay, so I’m 16, and I have an extremely huge crush on my last English teacher.. who’s 36. I’m not as creepy aas I sound. Everyone’s had that one teacher they had a crush on!
He was my teacher this past August-December and doesn’t teach at my school anymore. He’s now at an admissions office for […]
Straight story
by » David Lally
File this in the “I should know better” category.
I am an out gay man. I live in NYC. I am not into the bar scene or frequent Chelsea or the West Village. I work in a job where I deal with the general public yet would be frowned upon if I actually […]
HE’S WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by » Kimmi
Well we have had a crush on one of our teachers before.I know I’m not the only one. RIGHT??????
Well only if he or she is cute. And he has a nice ass.
Well lets start with this school year that past. Well our grade level got a new vice principal and OMG he was hot!!!! […]
Dreamy, but…
by » Lauri
Ed was dreamy. Straight-out-of-a-teen-movie-dreamy. He was on the football team. (Okay, so he was a kicker, not really the guy in the middle of the action, but still…football team! And being a kicker meant he was actually a normal-sized man. Trust me, a linebacker would not work well with my […]
Broadway Fantasy
by » Christine
Unrequited love is, indeed, a bore. I’m not naming names or titles of shows because the peson this is about may very well be reading this. It started seven or eight years ago when I was 15 and I spotted her playing a very small supporting role in a Broadway musical. I […]
Tongue Tied
by » Kristen McElveen
Ah, crushes. I have them constantly, no matter how inexplicable. Here’s a quick summary, along with my most embarrassing moment:
First crush, my 2nd grade teacher – she wrote a play specifically for me to star in because I was the tallest girl (make that kid) in school. I was smitten until “graduation” into middle school, […]
Beware the dimples
by » Tania
I had my very first crush when I was about 7. He was a classmate of mine: blond, blue eyes, small, a little bit fat with adorable dimples. I don’t know why but all the girls of the class loved him too. Seems like I followed the trend, but I swear I loved him for […]
cherie.
by » Amanda Young
i’m sitting in a corner at an underground rave, the first time i see her, rolling hard on ecstasy. she knows my friends, greets them warmly as i watch. without her knowing, of course. i can do nothing more. not so much because of my chemical, but because, corny as it […]
Despite the Odds
by » Stephanie
I was sixteen when we first met. I was an honor student looking for a job and he was the manager at our local movie theater. I have to admit there was chemistry but I never thought in a million years that he would even give me a second glance. He was […]
Best Friends
by » Lindy Verschoor
About 6 years ago i realized i fell in love with my best friend.
And it would not be such a big deal if my friend was a guy…but my friend was a girl!!
It totally confused me…i mean how could i fall in love with a girl??Im suposed to be falling in love with a guy […]
The Hobbit
by » Caz
Why is is that when you are just getting over the headrush that comes with a breakup you either sink into a bath with a bottle of Vodka or run into the one thing you do not need …. another man.
I used to do this frequently both the vodka and the man thing, usually surfers […]
15 All Over Again
by » SW
I can still recall the gleam in her eyes from across the room. My heart fell to the floor and I just knew this girl was different. She was 21 at the time, with short blonde hair, piercing green eyes, and an hour glass figure. I was one of those strange girls […]
Fears behind the flings
by » Ashley Tyler
Inexplicable flings- So far my life has been made up of these. I haven’t had many but its all I’ve known. See, the thing is, I’m the inexplicable one. I’ve let numerous numbers of what appear to be good guys walk out of my life. But the ones that are not worthy of anyone’s time, […]
Jealousy
by » Lauren Thomas
Well, first off I’d like to say that I’ve had many inexplicable crushes. I have never had a ‘fling’ and don’t intend on doing so… not yet, anyway. As I’m 15 years old, I can’t say that I have been in love, but I used to believe that I came very close to it. The […]
How I Found LVOE.
by » Anonymous
Well, it all started 1 year ago.. I joined a club! And who knew where it would take me to. At first I joined hip hop club to share the love and passion we all have for the hip hop culture. but when I met everyone, I suddenly had an eye candy. His personality […]
The Classic Covet
by » Gracie London
It’s the classic love story: Girl meets Girl. Girl and Girl share strange infatuations with sci-fi and Shakespeare and immediately become best friends forever and ever. Then Girl meets Girl’s incredibly breathtaking brother. Cue the head over heals. It really was baffling, because I never went for Roger’s type. He was big […]
Shades of Gray
by » S.C. Hindall
It goes without saying that the one you shouldn’t have is the one you can’t shake.
I met Ray ******* at a bar in Austin when I was 21. Milky-skinned and quietly neurotic, he liked me right away. His hair was like a thick, dark mound of chocolate, and he had a commanding, friendly smile that […]
No regrets
by » Laura Evans
It certainly surprises me that at 20 years old looking back at my life, i do have regrets where relationships are concerned. But it is safe to say that before the regret there were insane times of happiness. I read a quote once that summed up my entire relationship with my first real love
“The worst […]
The Un-Realistic Reasons
by » Chelsea R.
Why is it that even the most realistic if my crushes can always turn out to be un-realistic?
Reason 1 : Let’s go back to my fourth grade classroom. So there’s “this boy” in my class that I had a huge crush on, unfortunately for me, so did every other girl in school. However the factor […]
Episodic Crushes
by » Pamela Cuce
Ok. So I guess the topic is inexplicable crush. And I totally have one. It’s embarassing. But you know I gotta get it off my chest somehow. And I think the best way to do it is to confess it to a large audience where I will probably be the brunt of endless ridicule. But […]
A child-like feeling
by » Mand
When I was 19 met girl at work that took my breath away, which freeked me out as I had never realised I was a lesbian before. But the second I saw here there was a definate sexual feeling.
We become so close, almost inseperable. We went on holidays, out drinking and for a period of […]
What is it about them?
by » Jean Nicole
When the time comes to forget about our now former crushes, we all seem relaxed and complete on the surface, but what were we really thinking on the inside?
1.Did he forget about me?
2.Did he like me? or even worse,
3.Did he even know me?
It started in the sixth grade. I was what you’d call the crazy […]
The Older Man
by » Myrrhe
The year is 1993, who knows what day, or month, or season, all that is irrelevant. I am five, or turning 5, the first time I see him. He is 10, a whole life time older than I, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter is that we will never meet, he and I.
I see […]
Parents Can’t Keep Secrets
by » Myrrhe
I think I’ve never been REALLY in love, but the first time I had a little crush on someone was probably ten years ago (when I was 8). There was this very funny boy in the same class and I really liked him haha! And I told my parents because I felt so happy. A […]
Don’t Answer that Call
by » Heather K
He was the odd ball at school, no one really liked him and so many rumors floated around about him. He was in our ‘clique’ and I felt bad for him, so I started trying to get to know him better and defend his name when I would hear those ridiculous rumors. The […]
Lucky
by » vcpacific
I have always known I was gay……..ever since I was around 12 years old, so when I went to the Village at the age of 17, I didn’t think any thing about it. Where else would I go to meet ms right, and living in Brooklyn and having the Village easily accessible, was certainly a […]
My first -inexplicable- crush
by » sally
When I was a child I supposed to be a very special child.
I’ll destroy the misconception that all the childs are artlesses. l knew any thing about woman, man. And sex. And I was just 5 years old when I understood every thing.
Today, I still can’t find an explanation. Where I did […]
Most inexplicable fling (or crush)
by » Darren
What a subject to use as my first submission. It could really go either way…
Lets see. i can think of many that are totally inexplicable. Here are my favourite 3!
» She ra- Princess of power. In 1985 (i think) a cartoon (yes.. i said cartoon) was launched that was a spin-off to the hugely […]
Fast Mover
by » Jennifer Healey
A couple years ago, I went up to this summer party thing I go to every year. My friend Jeff was up there as well, we had been friends for years but I was beginning to he think he wanted more than that. After a couple of hours on the beach Jeff asked me out, […]
Can’t Sleep…Clowns Will Eat Me
by » Shawn Truwe
It was confusing to be young boy who loved TV and who would grow up to be gay. At the time I didn’t know why I loved certain shows. But, now I know.
I always seem develop a crush on a guy that reminds me of someone from a TV show from my childhood. […]
Man with the horn
by » Leila Jacobson
Within my fifteen years of life, I have had nothing even resembling a fling, and I’m glad. Might as well save it for when I’m older. Adult flings are always more interesting.
Crushes are a different story, though. I am not your average teenage girl when it comes to crushes, and I’ve never quite figured out […]
Is That Why I liked Him?
by » Shannon Ouellette
Let’s flashback to the beginning of my freshman year of high school… which was not too awful long ago, considering I’m a junior starting this fall. We’ll call him Bill.
Oh Bill, what a lovely soul. He was one of many in my circle of friends and a little on the crazy side. And that makes […]
Sicko
by » B
About a year and a half ago, when I was fifteen, me and my best friend were sitting outside of her apartment dressed in her dads old clothes and covered in paint after a long day of painting her room. We saw our friend Pete in his car with a few of his guy friends. […]
Worst crush, best lesson
by » Lauren Januzik
I have to admit, when I first read about this topic, my first reaction was that I had nothing to say. Whatever story I could produce would be completely and utterly pointless, because I have little to no experience in the matter of relationships. I have never been in a relationship (unless you count the […]
Playing the game
by » Jessica
Where do i begin? You want to know about the way we met? It was so typical for a teenage crush. Pirates, THE bar to be if you’re about 17 and living in Amsterdam. He must have been 19 at the time. I was out with a friend and a crush of hers. Typical… again. […]
Of Lies and a Bottle of Dom Perignon
by » Calamity Jane
You lied to me, Jim, and I’m finding it hard to forgive you…
In the short span of time since we became friends, we’ve been honest with each other. Brutally candid was how others described it. We quarelled, we fought, and we argued all the time because we spoke precisely what we thought. Our four years […]
Yes or No
by » Erin Clark
I’d had this crush on this kid. I don’t know why, he was Ugly, and had the biggest head i think i have ever seen. But we met while we were in our stupid, ‘Social Skills’ class.. and the teacher left us, and i think just a couple other kids, i dont remember. But i […]
Fling Him Back
by » Amanda
There was this fling that I had with some guy at school. His name was Jesse. He had a girlfriend but I wanted him really bad. He was extremely cute and he had a nice car. I got him to break up with his girlfriend who he was starting to get sick of. She was […]
The Impossible Goose Charmer and Me
by » Carolyn Jepson
Geese hate me. I mean, really. I am despised. I rowed for the crew team in college, and every morning we were on the water as soon as the sun came up. One particular morning, I was walking to practice, enjoying my daily pop-tart (raspberry frosted) when a hissing Canadian goose […]
What’s In a Name
by » Courtney Boches
My four year old cousin impatiently tapped one fashionably wedge-sandaled foot on the worn boards of the swing-set platform. She sighed and glanced at her huge plastic Dora the Explorer wristwatch that she couldn’t decipher. “Es la una.” Whatever that meant, but, eh, it was Dora. She was bilingual and had […]
Remote crush
by » Thomas Fitzgerald
Living in a small country villiage in urban Ireland, believe me it was not easy for this 23 year old man to meet another man with the same sexual desires that i had and lets face it still do, even more so now. Working in my local grocery store for 4 years, life was boring, […]
To all the men I’ve crushed before
by » julia shih
I live a senseless love life so all of my crushes were inexplicable and the symptoms of my inability to embrace asexuality:
Rollin (6 years old) - Probably my first love. He was my best friend at the Challenger School for the Gifted and Talented and taught me long division with fraction remainders at the age […]
Crush
by » Erin D.
joaquin phonix. drool. lots and lots of drool. while the crush is rather obvious, here’s the inexplicable part: i actually spent a lot of free time searching for jobs and pet-friendly apartments in new york on the slight chance i’d run in to the guy on the street while walking my dog. i’d read somewhere […]
Fallen Idol
by » Katie Puckrik
For one thing, Courtney Chapel was a preposterous name for a 22-year-old guy. I mean, “Courtney” sounded girly, “Chapel” sounded religious and the whole handle came off like a debutante-turned-hatmaker.
That’s why my teenage friends and I amped up the stupid name game and re-christened Courtney “Easter Island Head”, in honor of his monumentally long face […]
My Most Memorable Crush
by » Angie T.
My most memorable “crush” occured while I was in high school, my best friends brother who was handsome and very much available. He told his sister he would NEVER date her friends, but I didn’t care, every time we were around each other, the sparks flew. Lo and behold, after only two months, we started […]
Longtime Crush
by » Aggie
Have you ever thought a story could repeat in the time? Even if 100 hundred years separate both? It’s an appealing idea somehow, isn’t it? Perhaps a bit scary but still. I just can say the story I’m about to tell happened to me. And I can’t ignore it.
The first time I went to Brittany, […]
My First Crush
by » Herdis
My first crush; my art teacher when I was 7. I thought she was the most beautiful being on earth. I remember trying everything to impress her. When she complemented another girl for her drawing, I tried to do an exact copy of that drawing.. and I didn´t understand why I didn’t get the same […]
My First Crush
by » Erin McManus
Boyfriends I have had them, but most of the time it was something to be in the cool crowd. All through high school I dated the college guys, the carpenters, but never once did I date somebody from high school. The ones I wanted seemed to be taken. I never could understand what kind of […]
My Most Inexplicable Crush
by » Amanda Gleason
Being a certifiable drama queen during my younger years (although, I like to think I’ve most passed this attitude… maybe), I have had my fair share of inexplicable crushes. And by crushes, I mean, chronic infatuation. And by chronic infatuation, I mean borderline manic obsession. I also am the type of gal to have a […]
Cross-Cultural Crush
by » Sarie
Inexplicably NYAPPY! Always a fascination of mine was one country in particular, Japan. An on-going obsession which, well, started over a video game as a fourteen year old and progressed into a cultural experience, the language, the food, the literature, fashion, art, history and above all things music.
Maybe it was obvious being that music was […]
My First (and only) Crush
by » Shayla C.
i am 14 so i don’t have any of these stories except one. I remember in like 4th grade when i was going out with one of the most popular guys. And i thought this is great. But i thought the cool thing to do would be to break up with him. I don’t know […]
Mysteries and Angels
by » Wendy Bradtke
Always count your crushes on the fingers of several hands.
I learnt this early. Delving right back into my childhood there was Peter, hell, I think I was 8 years old. As I look back he was a kind of quiet, sensitive guy, the kind I’ve always attracted perhaps to my dismay. It was in […]
Six Days of Sammy Hamlin
by » Erin Brady
My most inexplicable fling or crush? After careful consideration, as I have had a variety of crushes, inexplicable to say the least, there is one name that keeps coming back to me: Sam Hamlin.
It was last year, my freshman year in high school, when I first fell for Sam. He was the cool, […]
Sylvia Plath vs. Oatmeal
by » Katie Filip
I was sixteen the summer I started eating oatmeal and reading Sylvia Plath. Both seemed to be remarkable ideas at the time, but only Plath prevailed. Oatmeal and I had paths that crossed but never for very long. But my love affair with Plath was far deeper than my fleeting interest in […]
Whuts yr fav crush?
by » Jenn G
It was a Saturday afternoon when my friend decides to wake me up from my delightful nap to ask me if I’d like to go on a sort-of double date with her and two boys that night. Of course I jumped all over the invitation. I was so excited because this was my […]
First job, worst crush
by » Shawna
15 years old. Check.
First part-time job. Check.
First hardcore crush. Check.
Regretting it 9 years later. Check.
When I turned 15, the most thrilling thing for me, idiotically, was getting my first job. It was my first step to getting away from my mother, which we all know is a must at that […]
He Stole My Heart
by » Marie-Louise Toruno
In the sixth grade you could say I was a bit of a rebel. I cursed, I was horribly mean to my babysitter, and I stole. What was the valuable object of choice in my stealing? Pens. I loved pens and so did William. William and I sat next to each other and would compare […]
Camp Crush
by » kate
i was 21 and working as a summer camp counselor. i was able to choose my co-counselor from two guys; both of them were very attractive, but when I looked at him - the blue eyed fraternity boy two years my junior - i felt this instant connection, and i instantly made my choice. it […]
Sexy Ugly
by » Meghan
My first, never ending crush hit me when I was about 14 and completely obsessed with ballet. I fell head over heels for a male dancer – never a smart idea. Good thing it was only onscreen. I had found him: Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point. For those less obsessed with ballet than […]
My Sweater, Cathy
by » Mariana Amaro Ferreira
I have crushes on the most unexpected people. I hardly ever care about genre, age or social standing. But this is not inexplicable, none of them have been. Weirder, in my humble opinion, is what happens when I have crushes on things. I’ve never gone so far as actually having a fling with anything but […]
Hot Purple
by » Ken Roht
So many crushes… all the time… so, I’m relegated to the one at hand. A Hollywood party in the hills, but the Silverlake Hills version: scruffy backyard brunch, homemade waffles and quesadillas, mimosas and lots of second-hand funkywear. Everyone was quite lovely and sociable. The host was a B-Horror movie director. […]
The Jazz Man
by » Stephanie Sidak
Everybody at school called him “the Jazz Man.” It was a fitting name, considering he was somewhat of a musical prodigy. He picked up a saxophone at 13 years of age, and by the time he was 15 he had put out 2 cds, was playing gigs almost every night around the state, and had […]
Grace
by » C. Ascadilla
so the morning eventually came, and all I could think was ‘there are better places to wake up.’ There was drool on my hair and on my pillow that definitely wasn’t mine. There was an arm draped across my chest which normally would have been fine, but I was pretty sure that this […]
Daniel
by » Katie Friedman
I’m a dyke. Kind of a stereotypical fat dyke. I have always dated smaller, prettier femme girls- preferring their long hair and smooth skin and the way they smell like soap and make-up. And women in general have always been my culture. I even for a while joined a group […]
Most Unusual Crush?
by » Erin C.
O.K., this is going to sound strange, but I have always had a crush on Dolly Parton. Not a crush of the romantic kind, more a crush because of the admiration I have for her and because so many things about her (no pun intended) are larger than life. I remember being 12 years old […]
My Most Regrettable Fling
by » Ann Ominous
Real women devour any available man, leaving behind piles of masculine rubble in their stiletto-heeled wake. Sort of like Godzilla trashing Tokyo, only cuter in a G-string.
At least, that’s what I thought at the beginning of my career as self-styled Real Woman. Fresh out of long-dying relationship that had just gasped its last, I was […]
Watergate Paramour
by » Danny Miller
I had my first sexual fantasy when I was a freshman in high school. Oh, I’d had crushes before. I lusted after Julie Newmar’s Catwoman on “Batman,” I fantasized about my seventh grade teacher, Mrs. Pink, who wore white lipstick and taught us Bob Dylan songs, and I was so besotted with my Spin the […]
Most Inexplicable Crush
by » Tina Kapousis
I had seen him before. Occasionally, on a Sunday when I didn’t have to go to church I caught him and his friends on TV. Early, before the heathen Sunday morning cartoons came on the USA network. I watched those too, though. But, to see him was a rare, exciting treat. Then, around 1985 or […]
Man in the Van
by » Colleen Wainwright
For as long as I’ve known what stirrings were, I’ve sensed that my own rather went against the mainstream…
Crushes
by » The Bishop
My crushes over the years have been pretty typical. They all make sense to me on some level, going back to my earliest pre-pubescent ones…