Word: girls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl answered. He spoke (too quickly, damn it), "Hello, Jean, this is Martin...
That really pissed him off, though. How could she forget that she had a date with him on Friday? I mean, no girl could just outright forget a date! He had stood there on the porch, stuttering and awkward, and suddenly they had kissed-a lingering, deep, open-mouthed kiss, much more than the peck he had anticipated-and then he, breathless, had said. "See you next Friday, okay?" and she had said, "Yes," and he said, "I'll call you next week, we'll probably see a movie," and then he had run all the way back...
Martin dropped the phone, and it clanged to the floor. She had done it. She had broken a date with him so she could go out with some goddamned junior! Well, so be it. Any girl who breaks a date is not worth dating. But how could she do that to him? How could she make him feel so good one week and then stomp on him the next? What a thing to do to a guy!... And he had just taken it. He had stood there, not saying a word, taking it. She had squished him like some earthworm...
...toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...
...leaves. He put down a pound only and shoved the rest back in some pocket. The pain had been worse than this, a lot worse." Julian is on his way to see his mistress-and that fact is another kind of bad joke. She is a simple, lost, physical girl still in her teens, with no past herself and, so far, little sign of a future. Julian has a wife, not a bad woman or a good one, but disease has pared away his talent for complication; he can no longer thread through the subtle caterings and cozenings of marriage...