It was Thursday night, a night when, had we been at home, Penny would have been ‘working late’ at ….well, at her place of work, and I would be �...�at the gym’ near my office, comfortably distant from home. In fact, of course, we would have been together in one of a number of anonymous business hotels in a nearby city, trying not to use the same hotel often enough to become familiar to the staff. The weather had been very good that day, and after a long walk along an old railway track, we. ”“I don’t,” I replied. It was true. I’d never actually let a guy bareback me. I was too scared of pregnancy since I wasn’t on birth control. My parents, though they were very kind, were fundamentalist Christians who would have freaked out at the thought that I was even considering having sex. As far as they knew, I was still a shy virgin too young to even look at boys. Silly, really. Ludicrous, considering how much experience I already had at seventeen. They’d go insane if they knew where I was. "Phil felt staggered by the transformation. Because of his small sizeand slender build, he'd spent three years in solitary confinement toprotect him from "passes" thrown by the bigger inmates. I'd be theSweetheart of Soledad for sure, if any of the cons every saw me lookinglike this, he thought. "I never thought I'd make...a good lookingwoman?" It must be in the genes?" suggested Kelly, thinking of his ownpredicament."Yeah, the padding in the jeans does give me...a girly shape?"Kelly giggled.. And your aunt Margaret's gonna have another baby. And, let's see, what else happened?"Aunt Frances asked from the back seat, "You were in New York, Speedy? Is that where you went?"I sighed, "Yes, Aunt Frances."My Great Aunt Mary shrieked from the other side of the back seat, "Speedy, I hear they have a lotta niggers in New York. Is that true? Did you see a lotta niggers up there?"I said, "They have a lot of everything in New York, Aunt Mary. Everything."I thought: god damn, I've got to get out.