“Jerry, grandma is coming to stay with us,” Teri informed her 19-year-old son at dinner that evening. “She hasn’t visited us in a while,” Jerry replied. “She’s not coming to visit, Jerry, she’s coming to live with us,” Teri explained, inwardly wincing as she saw the look on her son’s face. “But why?” Jerry asked.
“Bye Kim, nice to meet you Beth, have fun!” As one of my favorite customers left my shop, I topped off my coffee and went back to my crossword. Working in an adult toy store dulls some people’s sexual appetite, but even after six years mine was going strong. In the afternoons there was often
In all my years, I had never thought of grandma Em in a sexual way until the day I walked into their house, yelled for her and got no answer. I could see that granda Willie was gone. His Chrysler’s absence meant he was either gone to play gin rummy with the guys or he
By the time I arrived at the home of my grandmother in Chicago, I had convinced myself that this would be the most boring and wasted weekend I had ever spent. My parents had moved away from the city years before, when I was in junior high. We visited my grandparents regularly in the years