First Stories

For Ben, it seemed impossible to put into words what Natalie had meant to him. That one night, that one brief, modestly wicked moment between them, punctuated a lifetime of all but worshiping her.

I always thought my Uncle Bob was kind of hunky and sexy. He'd been a gymnast in college and was still in great shape. When I asked him to teach me gymnastics he said that, at fifteen I was a little late getting started, but he'd let me exercise with him to get in shape. It turned out that exercising with him was intimate, but I didn't mind. He peeked down my shirts and I peeked up his shorts. Eventually, he taught me how to love a man with all my heart, even if I couldn't marry that man.