Elian, having survived a boat trip from Cuba to Florida that his parents didn’t survive, has gone to an aunt in Miami. She sends him to her estranged husband, Duardo, in Islamorada Key for the summer to work on Duardo’s charter boat. Duardo also has a gay bar and initiates Elian to serve men there. Elian is pulled into more sinister work on the charter boat, though.
Sam and Tabitha are married and they love each other and they make love regularly. But they also share their individual sexual fantasies and they find there's a mutual sexual fantasy centered around one of Sam's friends, Larry. And they decided for the first time to make a fantasy into one of their own secret realities.
After I posted 'Hair Cut' I had numerous mails asking me if my ex wife did anything more with her brother. Well to be honest I don't know but that doesn't stop me speculating.
"Why don't you take your nose out of that book and look at all this crumpet?" asked Danny. "What?" I replied. "Look, I've got to finish this before my exam next week." "I just wish I had your good looks," mused Danny. "What?" I said again. "Good looks, what rubbish." "Hey, it's not rubbish that all the good looking birds keep giving you the eye," he observed. "And you're too busy to notice."
Sitting in a bar one night, our narrator flashes back to the night he and his now wife each lost their virginity while out parking by the lake -- and the current misery that was created by that night. Based on the Meatloaf hit "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"