A simple but lovely flower girl is taken off the East London 1860's street and pressed into Madam Livinia's service. Madam must train her well before she causes trouble.
Tom and Sharon have grown up living next door to each other since they were little kids. Now tom is 12, reaching purberty and his pretty little blonde neighbor, Sharon is also beginning to turn into a young woman. And, they get together to compare notes and then do some sexual research for themselves.
Set in an imaginary country, this is the story of a young girl who is punished for theft by being sent to the community baths to be a towel girl. She soon learns she has to provide something other than just towels.
Writen in the style of Hemingway for the 2004 Curmudgeon Story Festival at ASSM. An eighteen-year old girl chooses her cranky older neighbor as her first lover.