Forum / First Sex

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    Ann Bogle
    Nov 12, 09:36am

    Published at Altered Scale Blog April 9, 2012 and at Fictionaut April 10, 2012. Appeared as a blog post at Ana Verse January 23, 2006. Updated November 12, 2012 for tense.

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    Ann Bogle
    Nov 12, 09:37am

    http://fictionaut.com/stories/ann-bogle/first-sex

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    Ann Bogle
    Nov 12, 10:28pm

    "Steve Gowin, so right. Minnesota Nice, Minnesota Rice (is for weddings). I do not declare it in the story. I hoped that itemizing sex incidents (one or none per year) might convey it. Susan Tepper (not a Midwesterner) read it as the narrator's counting obsession. Not so! A celibacy reigns, even for the gorgeous. As in politics, there are sexual incumbents and non-elects. In Texas, every woman I knew had a boyfriend then another if something failed. In Minnesota, in a room full of recovery people, one sexually active male, one female, twenty (forty) inactive, at a time. What visitor to the arts would believe it who had not LIVED here?"

  • Frankie Saxx
    Nov 20, 01:16pm

    I admit, I just clicked this because it said "sex."

    I enjoyed it very much. Much like sex.

    A+++ will read again.

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    Ann Bogle
    Nov 20, 05:31pm

    Frankie, juicy comment. Voila! La! Heureux.

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    Ann Bogle
    Nov 20, 05:33pm

    The tense shifts bothered me as I edited this (and other stories) to include in my story ms. Jeff Hansen liked the shifts and still likes them after considering them regularized here. The story with contradictory tense appears at Hansen's Altered Scale blog and at my blog, Ana Verse. Those links provided at the story page (above).

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