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Naked Athena, one year later

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It was one year ago today (July 18) that the woman known as Naked Athena faced down the police in Portland, Ore. I commemorated the incident in a poem called, appropriately enough, Naked Athena, which is sort of a combination of Barbara Frietchie and Paul Revere's Ride, but, you know, with a naked woman in it.

Completely, utterly, and totally naked

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The word 'naked' means to be without clothes. It needs no modifier to get its point across. A woman may be half naked or partially naked, but once all the clothes come off, she is, simply, naked. Yet often, almost unconsciously, I feel the need to add some kind of emphasis to focus more attention on the situation, and so I'll describe a woman as completely naked, or totally naked, or stark naked -- all of which is to say that she is, well, naked.

In most circumstances I'm an ogre about usage, and I abhor redundancy (unless it reveals something about character), and yet, in this one case, I am happy to make an exception. I write as much for myself as for my readers, and in this context, an intensive like utterly and totally, while strictly unnecessary, gives me a wee bit of a charge.

It's a hot summer day here in the US. Let's all get completely naked.

Another exhibitionist story

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My latest, The Shoemaker's Daughters, has just gone up. It's a companion piece to my much earlier story The Nervous Princess, and it's written in the same formal, storybook style. I've been in touch with a reader who's into stories involving exhibitionism and nudism, and while I've been thinking about this particular scenario for some time, he inspired me to tackle it in earnest at long last.

I expect scores to be low, but I don't care anymore. I wrote what I wanted to write.

Repost and musical interlude

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I have corrected and partially revised an older story of mine titled "The Music Room", which I've always liked personally, and which got some attention from fellow authors. It's the second story featuring Danielle, the young exhibitionist who showed up most recently in "Covid Relief". I hope any of you who have not read one or the other of these stories will check them out.

The flute solo Dani plays in "The Music Room" is real, by the way, and can be found on you tube. It's titled "Children Are Playing" and was written by Carl Nielsen.

Reaction to Dress Code

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My new story, Dress Code, seems to be getting some attention, though, as always with my work, scores are middling at best. (Someday, I swear, I'm going to crack an 8. Take that, Aroslav.)

Thanks, too, to gmbusman for his review.

I'd also like to share a comment from one of my more perceptive readers, who lives in Germany. The story seems to have struck a chord with him, because he's evidently well acquainted with the idea of dictatorial school administrators and students' attempts to fight back. I found this fascinating:

"Sometimes I get information about what is going on in schools in Russia because my cousins go there. School administrators there are constantly terrorizing the students by making the rules stricter. Children rebel from time to time. For example, at graduation parties, one of the girls is sure to come in a see-through dress and no underwear, or in a suit suitable for a nightclub. Every year there are scandals called 'naked prom girls'."

Hmm, that graduation idea might make a good story.

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