This is fierce, like a current that obeys only the moon and sea.
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This is fierce, like a current that obeys only the moon and sea.
The black pleather sofa was well worn from the tired bodies of so many young people that had come before me.
Nervous and timid at my new job at the chain pharmacy, I was not prepared for conflict.
I saw the tiny bright pink pill slide from the pocket of his khaki pants and onto his seat, then drop to the floor next to his desk.
We reached the roof of the school unnoticed. Maggie was an expert at planning adventures and I didn't want to show her that I wasn't as fearless as she was.
I always had to try something once. Just to see.
I've had a crush on Crystal forever, and now here I am, in front of everyone, expected to stab a flower into her dress, millimeters from her—you know.
Mom and I trudge up the hill through the warm Kansas rain, lugging my possessions up two flights into my college suite. Dad sits in our van with the Colorado plates, eerily silent after a lifetime of telling me I’d be the one to make it to college.
Like every sedan back then, the Fleet had a closed-in trunk. We decided to put it to good use.
I wanted forever. You thought you wanted forever.
The A-Go-Go, a huge air hangar in the Dennis woods, has a dance Saturday and unbelievably, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs are playing. My parents checked out the grounds once and saw a pair of underpants. Crime site.
June 1969. Nancy and I are 16 with fake IDs at Passim in Cambridge.