Single Scenarios Eerie Encounters by BS Staff Al and Roxanne met at an ice cream shop.  She was ordering a chocolate sundae and he offered to pay for it.  They exchanged numbers and he called the next day.  They began dating heavily and were inseparable for three months. Then Roxanne met someone else whom she […]

Single Sketches Memories by M.K. Allison The lights are low, and the music is soft.  And you…you’re dazzling in an outfit that costs almost as much as your son’s tuition last year.  At the moment, you’re sitting across the table from a man who seems like he was catalog ordered, especially for you, from the […]

  The Dating Chronicles The Decision  It was over.  But Dave had known for a while and had said nothing.  Now, his best friend Carl sat across from him with his head down.  He was confessing that he had been seeing Dave’s girl Diane for the last four months.  His voice quivered as he begged […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  In the last three months, I met two guys in a row and my best friend met three, All five were fine, intelligent, and perplexing.  The guys we meet either lie about what they’re doing, scheme to keep you from finding out, or behave like imbeciles at any gesture of […]

Story Of The Week The Wrong Number by J. Carroll It was a Saturday night and Gina was feeling very lonely when her phone rang.  She hadn’t been on a date in a while, and she was considering going to the movies alone.  The voice on the other end was male, deep, and melodic, but […]

Single Scenarios Love Lessons 101 Chad:  “I feel guilty about a relationship I got involved in where I knew the woman was too nice for what I had in mind.  She was hoping for marriage or at best a serious relationship and all I wanted was fun and sex.  I felt really bad when I […]

The Truth Behind Those Disappearing Acts… by M.K. Allison  I n my research, I found several men and women who confessed to being guilty of “ghosting” someone with no explanation and who also agreed to reveal the reasons for their abrupt exits.  Hopefully, their very candid answers will provide some insight and shine a light […]

Anger Alert!  Violence On The Dating Scene by Coco Diong FACT #1:  Singles (men and women) often suffer silently in abusive relationships and no one talks about it.   I discovered this when I recently attended a singles women’s conference and one of the speakers called for those in the room who had suffered physical […]

Marriage: When You’re Ready And He”s Not… by Sheryl Smith I had been with Jake for four years and we had formed a bond of closeness that I had never before experienced with a man.  I could tell him anything about myself and he accepted me.  He was my closest friend, yet he kept a […]

Fateful Encounters by Cheryl Lakes Do you believe in Fate?  Have you ever had a strange feeling that something was about to happen and it did?  Or have you ever felt drawn by some strange force to do something out of the ordinary that was difficult to explain?  Has anyone ever predicted that something would […]