gave me a big big boner. i had to go into the bathroom (i was at work) and jerk off. when i came out of the bathroom, i still had a little bit on my hands. when i shook hands with a client, i had to be like 'oh sorry, i was just eating a sticky-bun'. it made me feel kind of weird.
--jr
07/07 |
Great read! good balance between dialogue and deeper meaning, powerful, honest.
--ml
03/15 |
Rachel,
i ran into you several years ago in ptown. through the casual conversation that the retail business offers we stumbled upon the fact that we had gone to the same h.s.(in the same small town.) i too had sat eating fries by the library, laying on the grass wondering about stuff and things and driving through the winding roads late at night. i never thought that i would log on to nerve and read such an experience that would take me back to h.s with vivid memories and emotion, let alone the very one that i went to! thank you for confirming that i was not the only one who liked girls at hghs;-)
--af
03/05 |
Rachel,
i ran into you several years ago in ptown. through the casual conversation that the retail business offers we stumbled upon the fact that we had gone to the same h.s.(in the same small town.) i too had sat eating fries by the library, laying on the grass wondering about stuff and things and driving through the winding roads late at night. i never thought that i would log on to nerve and read such an experience that would take me back to h.s with vivid memories and emotion, let alone the very one that i went to! thank you for confirming that i was not the only one who liked girls at hghs;-)
--af
03/05 |
This is an excellent essay. It moved me. I remember feeling the same things in school. See I didnt know I was gay. Didnt even consider the possibility (did I know there was an option?)that I could have a relationship with a girl.
I remember feeling guilty around boys who tried to get close to me, having a best friend or two who I was so crazy about and I couldnt stand their boyfriends and the attention and time that was so eagerly given to the lousy........anyway. I this article took me back. It was a good read.
--SBW
02/22 |
i liked the story...keep writting
--kh
02/11 |
Clear writing. Not a missed 'beat' in the whole story - it keeps moving along and is emotional without being sappy or maudlin. Loved it.
--mn
02/07 |
you seem the writer I want to be. thank you.
--jfs
02/05 |
hey ms. mattson -
it's jeff from chappy. i bumped into you a couple of years ago at tre giovani and you said you wrote for "nerve." i've checked it out intermittently since then (the personals are kind of a hoot). i enjoyed reading "drive," especially since i knew most of the folks you were referring to. i assume the guys are hk, cm and jm. is the girl jf or ac? you can write me back at hotmail, just use my first and last name smushed together before the @.
--jf
02/05 |
I don't know why people feel that this story is "touching" I really don't feel anything special when reading about a lesbian adolescent.
There are other more interesting straight stories out there, which are truly erotic and more interesting.
--fya
02/05 |
This is the best story i've read on nerve. Real and interesting and alive.
--jdl.
02/04 |
Rachel Fck wat everyone said.. i loved it.. it moved me in every way possible that a story like yours can. Surprisingly enough something like that happened so I am able to relate.. very well written.. we need more like it..
Keep writing please
--R.31
02/04 |
Oops, thanks qq! It's fixed now.
--Ed.
02/04 |
Poignant, evocative, well-written.
But: "tugged on the emergency break"? Can we get some professionalism here, and have pieces proofread prior to posting, pretty please?
--qq
02/04 |
We need more articles by Rachel! She's so good! Drive is her best of the three you've run on Nerve. Speaking of great...Nerve!!
--bdm
10/30 |
Liked it.
--sp
09/23 |
Beautifully written and very touching. thank you
--r a
09/12 |
I'm male and straight(just thought i'd clear that up. grin) Found your story extremely moving, beautifully written. Nerve please give us more of this stuff(oh, and more of the heroin stuff as well)
--vn
09/06 |
I haven't read a story that captured the disappointment and emptines of being a teenager so well for a long time. I wish there were more like this
--DB
09/01 |
I suppose one might argue that using inelegant words such as "butt" and including cursing, well, one might argue that it conveys real life. However, the problem with such words would be that they have been used to death. There's no shock value in cursing because the Gen Xers do it metronomically. There are always better words. People who curse regularly have no self-respect, no respect for their audience, and a small vocabulary.
--mh
08/27 |
Rachel- Your story brought back a lot of memories, more of feelings than events, of my own high school years. Thanks. I was genuinely touched by the gentle poignancy of your story. It catches the intermingling of compassion, fear, loneliness, and honest human warmth that so often characterize our attmepts to touch one another. Loved it.
--KU
08/27 |
I really enjoyed reading this story. It surprised me and yet I related to it, even though I am not a lesbian. Very well written. It's the type of story I could more than once.
--KAD
08/27 |
Fix it Rachel, it's not too late...it never is.
--vrc
08/26 |
Rachel writes very good. Doesn't that sound like a 12 yearold? But she does. The little things, the way something feels, or looks. She does it very good.
--JMF
08/26 |
Dear Nerve, Please publish more of this and less of that heroin crap.
--jh
08/26 |
That was beautiful...amazing imagery and I could feel the emotion - the confusion and pain and sweetness of the whole thing. Excellent work...please bring us more.
--JR
08/26 |
WOW! Read it over and over, lovely visuals. More please...
--fmf
08/25 |
wonderful. I liked this a lot.
--mjs
08/25 |
NG
--gd
08/25 |
More, Rachel...more, please. Very, very ,very good. Bravo.
--TB
08/24 |
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