""Bless him. He's lost his marbles.""
The silence came upon me in 1952, the day mum asked me to read out the telegram. I’d never seen one before.“Corporal Charles Cooper. Stop - Missing. Stop - Believed killed in action. Stop”Something died inside me when I knew...
"How did you lose your virginity?"
My girlfriend and I were sitting at a table in a bar. I don’t remember exactly how we got onto the topic, but it seems to come up sooner or later in relationships: How did you lose your virginity?“So?” she...
Another old fogey came in from smoking a stogie as Jim grabbed a beer from the cooler. Once he had left, I said quietly, “How did we get invited again?”“Congratulations for graduation.”“You know, I couldn’t wait to get out of...
"A young woman's sexual awakening begins..."
It was the summer of 1984. I had recently graduated from high school and I was sitting in the back seat of the family car en route to our traditional family vacation.My name is Laura. I grew up in a...
"Her mother was picking her up in the morning, but there was unfinished business to attend to."
The sleepover had been fun but Melissa’s mobile just kept ringing. I watched as she reached out and grasped it, sleep still holding her eyelids closed while she answered. After a few mumbles and nods of her head, she sighed,...
"She saw Marnie dancing across the alley. Then they danced together"
I'd headed for New York fresh from drama school. My goal had been to become an actress, but at the time I had succeeded only in becoming a waitress, and I worked at the kind of place where the men...
"While her boyfriend’s away, Maddi learns how to play!"
Madison Parker stood in front of her full-length mirror, admiring herself in a new pink bikini.She had just had her seventeenth birthday, and, in September, she would begin her senior year of high school. She was dating the star of...
"A guy becomes a cross dresser and eventually gets laid."
Mark was a shy guy who had always found it difficult chatting up girls. There was always some reason. He didn’t like their hair, or their body, or their look, or their personality, or his family would not approve. His upbringing...
"Heidi and Aini are best friends. They like pink things."
“Alamak! So sexy what!” grins Aini, eyes squinting against the tropical afternoon light as she looks up from the pool. Her bathing costume is a modest maroon one-piece affair, melding into the rich dark skin of her short round body,...
"Are love and sex an ill-matched pair?"
III I had been in Australia for eight months and been living in St. Kilda for six. Being unattached and on the lookout for female company, one Saturday night I met Elizabeth. She arrived at the Austrian Ski Club at the...
