Humanity faces extinction from a mysterious and massive fertility problem. The key to babies is a lot of men doing a woman during her brief fertile period. Women have to get it from 40 different guys in the middle of the month. And the guys have to save their seed for just that occasion.
Another young girl gets sandwiched by the Donovan brothers on the subway. She was robbed of her feminine dignity and forced to be a tennis ball for their dreadful humiliations. When a stable married man and a bored housewife join in the fun and games, The girl learns some new tricks hanging on the strap and pretending it wasn't happening to her right out in the open like a dirty video on the internet.
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?
The story is set largely in the late 1960s. Two young lovers wrestle with the age-old problems of romance and postage. That reminds me, I should reread The Crying of Lot 49.
Variation to ANNA'S GAMBIT Rather than struggle for new ideas, I tried to embellish sex part of the same story. Anna is put in spot of having to placate her husband and influential investor for the sake of his success