1. Don't Drop Anchor Here (Part IV)


    Date: 9/28/2015, Categories: Love Stories, Author: flytoomuch, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    Preface: Please read Parts I to III to understand our tale fully. It takes place in 1970 and the emotional backdrop is the Vietnam War. Our protagonists in this naughty and yet sad tale are a boy and a girl. A simple tale to tell the truth: boy meets girl, boy secretly desires girl, girl leads boy on, and love soon grows—a simple part of the eternal circle of life—nothing more and nothing less, right? Yet our story has complications. Our love needs to grow quickly and surreptitiously. It needs a shaded spot like a weed whose wayward seed, blown by the wind, has found a minute crack in the concrete. There is just the tiniest bit of water to help the fertile seed burst forth and seek the sun. There is not enough soil or water to sustain our poor thirsty weed for long. Our little dandelion will struggle. The tiny flower that blooms will be beautiful, but short lived. So the love will necessarily be fleeting, just like the dandelion’s flower. Yet a tiny floret will be set forth and fertilize new life. So from the serendipitous chaos will emerge something unique and truly beautiful. Our “girl” in this story—our “Juliette” if you will—is an unlikely paramour named Veronica Robinson. She is twenty-nine years old and married to a crude brute of a man named Carl. The husband is a rather unattractive character who drinks too much and beats his wife regularly. Ronnie is sexually unsatisfied and emotionally drained by the abusive relationship. Our “boy” in the story—our “Romeo” if you ...
    will—is Veronica’s neighbour Robert Langham. Rob is only eighteen and has not only had his “number called” in the Vietnam draft, but he has now been selected for active duty. His young yet to be formed mind is roiled by dark images of the killing fields of Vietnam. In a few weeks he will be required by law to report for basic training. First what about Robert, our somewhat immature and still virgin high school graduate and war draftee? Well he is your typical suburban American man-boy of the time. He did okay at school, did well in sports, but is a bit lost and has no idea what he “wants to do”. Young Robert thought of going to college, but then just didn’t. He reads J.D. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway and is much more of a timid “geek” than he is a jock. Next we have Rob’s rather too-sexy “wife next door”, the very blonde and very beautiful Veronica Robinson—or “Ronnie” to all her close friends. Ronnie is every eighteen-year-old boy’s wet dream. Regarded as completely unattainable by the spying young horny teen next door, the sexy wife had become his masturbation obsession. Ronnie is, however, a sexually unsatisfied stay-at home wife. She is burdened with a husband who has no clue how to satisfy his smart, curious and intellectually superior wife. This threatens Carl’s buffoon-like sense of masculine identity, so he has retreated into alcohol, football, TV and illicit affairs with much less attractive work colleagues. Our pair of would-be lovers serendipitously met on a sunny ...
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