Belacqua: Stories

Purity is a battle - that's what the religiously-minded Franklin family believes. So you can imagine their shock when they discover their young daughter doing something decidedly unholy with her body. When the youthful exploration doesn't end, their pastor recommends giving the girl a boyfriend bear in the hopes that it will help maintain her chastity.

Alana told me she had something to show me after soccer practice. You never know with that girl, but I couldn't have predicted what it was in a million years: a tiny vibrating toy called a Mini Magic Wand. I was in for the wildest, weirdest experience of my teenage life so far, and by the end, everything was different.