Michael Malone - Weebly

Dorian Gray (in another of Miss Goff's forbidden
books), but whom Mrs. Troyes and the rector already
completely monopolized.
Coitus interrupted by a summer bookworm, the
shaken couple had flung on their clothes to meet the
citizens' committee Blossom imagined was on its way to
arrest them for visually assaulting a minor. But there
were no knocks or sirens, and no posse showed up as
they smoked a cigarette off in the librarian's tiny office,
where a portrait of his predecessor, Gladys Goff,
frowned down at them as if she had witnessed their
sacrilege in her cherished theology section.
Gradually, shock faded and shame followed.
"Crap," began Kate. "She's probably done it herself
by now. I know I had by sixteen." The worldly Miss
Ransom, now twenty-one, here juvenilized (though only
by one year) the loss of her virginity at seventeen to
Bobby Strummer in the den of her family's summer
house on Lake Pissinowno, where this local Apollo had
reigned as lifeguard before going to Vietnam, where he
had been for years "Missing in Action."