One Thousand Apologies
Copyright© 2016 by Joe Long
Prologue
Coming of Age Sex Story: Prologue - I was a nineteen year old virgin when I met my first love - she was my fourteen year old cousin.
Caution: This Coming of Age Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Teenagers Consensual Romantic Heterosexual Fiction Historical Sports Tear Jerker Incest Cousins Cream Pie First Masturbation Oral Sex Petting Safe Sex Small Breasts Slow
One Thousand Apologies
And knowing what I’ve done to you,
With every thought you suffer through
My heart as black as evil can
And everything I could have been,
Erased by what I wanted then
I couldn’t think a lesser man
All the delicate ways
That I deepened our graves
My apology pales
Demon Hunter
We buried my cousin last week.
Fucking breast cancer.
We stood in the middle of the cemetery, on a hilltop in western Pennsylvania. The church loomed across the road, a hundred yards to our right. The sun glared in my eyes as I stared at the tombstone.
Hannah R. Berkey
Nov 17, 1964 - July 23, 2014
Forty-nine years old – and gone.
I was the last one standing at her grave. Biting my lip, I tossed a handful of dirt onto the lowered coffin. My wife tugged at my arm, her voice a whisper. “C’mon, Joe.”
I turned and walked over to embrace Hannah’s husband. The rest of her family waited in line—Rebecca, Leah, Liz, her brother and sister and their spouses, her mother, and my mother. Various aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends milled around as some were already heading to their cars.
Her brother Dave extended his hand, and I shook it firmly. “Thanks for coming, man. When’re you guys headed back to Virginia?”
“Tonight. I’m sorry the kids couldn’t make it. Josh is settling into a new place in Pittsburgh, and Rachel had to stay with her kids. How yunz doing? Been too long.”