You're a young man and you take up with a much older woman because you need a companion -- someone to talk to and to hold you and to take care of you. You need a lover and a caretaker both. But, be careful. Whatever you do, don't fall in love with her.
A coming of age story for a group of early teens coming of age in the late 1950's. Larry enjoys the attentions of the girls in his school, and around his neighborhood.
This stand-alone story is a kind of prequel to my story 'My Son, the Photographer' and tells how two of the characters in that story first become intimate.
A Light of Passion Story Badger is an out-of-work construction worker soon to be evicted. Lady Lucinda Demon's Shadow waits for someone just like Badger as her hunger grows. This is the story of their romance and how love touched both their lives. Yeah, right: it's the story of how she drinks his soul. Except she'd never do that: you eat souls, and she will only eat his soul if it is what he most desires. It is, however, definitely their story.
Jimmy Stokes is the homeliest kid in school. Missy takes advantage of and uses him to do her lessons for her while she goes out to parties. Doesn't matter for he loves her. She soon gets into trouble and has to leave Jimmy, school and town. He loses track of her for many years. He has his own troubles --Money embezzled from him, wife is killed in a car accident--and then he meets Izzy.