"Chloe, Gina, and Jenny have some further romantic and sexual complications."
The following Thursday, Gina called me and asked me to go for a walk with her after school. I’d never spent time with her alone before, but it seemed like a simple request so I agreed to it.We met a...
"Chloe and Jenny follow through on the sexual experiment that Gina proposed."
The next Sunday morning, I went through the usual routine of going to Mass and then having lunch with my family. I wished I could call Gina for some encouragement to calm my nerves a bit, but I knew neither...
"In the early 1970’s, Chloe starts her sexual coming-of-age with two of her female friends."
The Sexual Revolution? I guess it had been around for a while by the early 1970s, but it didn’t seem to offer much to a working-class, rather ordinary-looking girl like me. By the time I was sixteen and approaching the...
"Two students confront each other over a sexual dispute."
That September, I noticed Clarissa sitting in a student center lounge, smooching with some guy. I noted that he was considerably taller and more 'buff' than I was.She saw me looking at her. In fact, I wanted to be noticed...
"A young couple plays more than one game at the same time."
In the week following that problematic Circle Line tour, my attempt to play hard-to-get failed. Margery had easily seduced me – more than once – on the following Thursday. I knew I was folding under the pressure of her charms.As...
"A hippie girl’s agenda."
In June 1975 I briefly – for a single afternoon – was with a woman I still think of as “the hippie girl.” And no, it was not a conventional one-day stand.She didn’t refer to herself by that term. I...
"A virginal young guy dates his unusual older neighbor."
In the spring of 1981, when I was nineteen, a woman named Miriam Roston moved into my building. At least I initially assumed that she was a woman. In New York, people generally were non-judgmental and left other people alone.But...
"A young office worker has an encounter with an enigmatic older female colleague."
I’ve noticed elsewhere that younger readers may no longer know what the term “zipless fuck” (a single, mostly emotionless coupling between two strangers) means. It was coined by Erica Jong in her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. She presented the...
"Vivian snags her absent roommate's boyfriend."
Vivian Hannity was still in a Catholic high school in the three stories within the series "Vivian and Cathy.” Certain incidents from that time more than four years earlier are mentioned here. The narrator, Paul D’Amato, was in his first...
"Hank decides that he needs to be a bit aloof and have Margery chase him for a while."
I was having a hard time with the scene in that basement. Here was this nice high school girl in her strange state of undress, and I knew she was going to talk about some provocative topics.I had a sudden...