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Georgia’s Golden Gate
He was in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art looking at one of the photographs. He was aware there was a woman beside him looking at the next photo. Suddenly she stepped in front of him to move to the next photo. His eyes met hers as he stepped back to give her room,…
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Chicago Girl
I wrote a short version of this story as a sort of “small plate.” But I got lots of mail and comments that it was too short, that it ended too soon. So here is the “entrée” version. He didn’t even notice her at first as he walked up the street away from San Francisco…
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The Week
I wrote this story years ago in the days of Polaroid cameras and cassette recorders. I’ve brought it up to date and revised it in other ways. Toni lay in bed. She was alone since her husband Chris was away on a business trip. She lay on her back and almost automatically her legs spread…
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Guest Services: Tungsten
Of all the stories I’ve written, “Guest Services” probably generated the most email asking for a sequel. So I wrote one, “Guest Services: Tuesday” which generated still more email asking for another sequel. And here it is; Michèle is finally back. It doesn’t matter if you’ve read the other stories or not, each one stands…
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Amazing Grace
Grace was working during the summer at the nursery at Berry Forge up in Canada. It made a change from campus life to be out in the country and in the open air all day, away from the city. At weekends she would normally go hiking, but this weekend would be different since, somewhat to…
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Singapore Sling
Scott heard the key turn in the lock and looked up as Jasmine came into the apartment. “Do you have the rent money?” he asked her. “It’s over a week into the new month.” “I’m still waiting for the money to come from Singapore,” she replied. “Well, if you don’t have it by tomorrow, you’ll…
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Truck Me Hard
He gunned the engine of the eighteen-wheeler and pulled towards the exit from the truck-stop. The truck was full of diesel and he was full of salad and steak and fries. It would be a long evening’s drive before he’d finally have to stop for the night. He was surprised to see a girl hitch-hiking…
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Black and White
“Hi, my names Jasmine. I’ve seen you on campus but I don’t think we’ve met.” “Lucy.” The two girls were training to be teachers and this was their first week of teaching practice. They would teach real classes of real children. They had been assigned a school in a small town in the east of…
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Roman Classics Major Adrienne
Siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. Should anyone here not know the art of love, read this, and learn by reading how to love. “Oh shit,” thought Adrienne as she moved the complete works of Ovid to one side. Underneath was the application form for the archeological…
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Organic Chemistry
This is a re-write (and shorter) version of Differential Calculus that I wrote for a story competition. Hi, my name is Francesca. I’m a student in California. I’ve always been really good at science, those stereotypes about girls aren’t all true. But I never thought it would give me the most intense sexual experience of…