Coming of Age Stories

A story in the Beth Universe
While writing Beth, I sometimes find myself going down rabbit holes. While such are always fun, those bits often wind up in places I don't want the story to go. Rather than delete them, I've saved them, possibly for future stories; I have borrowed pieces for other parts of Beth. These will all be short or a bit longer and may have beginnings and/or endings being abrupt, unconnected. Savvy readers can probably find where many of them started, but others, not so much.

Young teen Bailey Marsh tells the first person account of her own incestuous corruption at the hands of neighbors, teachers, and drug dealers. And it is all her brother's fault.

A young boy, one of life's forgotten souls, stumbles into the life of the the woman living down the road from his aunt's farm. They first become friends, then much more. For the first time in his life, he experiences real love.

This is based on a true story starting in a small industrial town in Yorkshire, England in 1964. Jeff and Jenny were amazed that their parents consented to them going on holiday together. But they were good kids, weren't they?

A story in the Beth Universe
What do parents consider most important? One father is in a quandary. Beth readers should recognize the characters and, obliquely, the situation, in Chapter 1. After the fact, I decided to give the story's title subject more air time, although I'll retain the third-person POV. Any sex is offscreen and involves only adults.

A famous radio DJ receives a phone call from someone from his past.

After increasingly erotic foreplay over the winter, Anna and Dylan finally surrender their virginities on her fifteenth birthday. They agree not to be exclusive and have an amazing summer, swinging and having sex with their friends.

James Olsen becomes one of the luckiest 15-year-olds in history when his aunt decides to take him as her lover and teaches him how to properly please a woman.

Chris Williams sees a school mate getting assaulted and he helps her out. It turns out, it's the start of a bunch of trouble for him

He had to raise her alone, a strong-willed, stubborn daughter, but he did the best he could. Now she was all grown up and it was prom time. He wanted it to be memorable for her but he also knew what a lot of boys tried to get a girl to give them after the dance. He took what steps he could. But was it enough?