Coming of Age Stories

Growing Pains Flash Stories
Part of the Growing Pains universe
This is part of the Growing Pains series and is best enjoyed as part of that. It is a short flash story. This story relates to a chat with the troubled Jodie Roberts and her friend Sarah Bailey. Her affair with her boyfriend’s father offered her something she could not get previously, but this shows just how desperate for affection she had become.

A young virgin goes to the doctor and takes his advice

I hope this account of what happened to me, will forewarn all decent mothers with coming of age boys, of what can happen if you suddenly weaken to their sexual advances! ... ... Just say No!

He pulled out the crumpled bill and held it in front of her, his eyes gleaming with greed. "For a little game , you can have this , and more" he whispered, his voice soft.

Everyone knows whats expected after the prom, don't they?

A story in the Tapestry Universe
We begin this chapter on John's 19th birthday. He has just made the worst mistake of his life and he'll feel the consequences of it. From his lowest point with gravity bearing down upon him can even the wind hold him up? Can he live with his own guilt and grief? How does he keep from breaking when he can't find the cold to deaden his emotions?

Amber answers a knock at the door and it all begins

t was less than twenty-four hours since her husband’s car had moved down the street away from the house, time enough for Wendy to get herself serviced by two twenty-year-old boys.