The overwhelming problems some people face in the course of their lives, can frequently lead them to commit acts they would never consider under usual circumstances.
In MOM ON THE MAKE, Joanne King is one of these people, for her problem — an alcoholic husband whose bitterness and anger finally send him on a rampage of violence and r#pe — leads her to accept comfort and sexual solace in a way most in our society would consider taboo.
MOM ON THE MAKE — the story of a woman faced with staggering problems, emotional, financial and physical — and the path she takes to solve them. A novel with a message to today’s society.
“Goddammit, you fuckin’ slut, what d’ya mean sayin’ somethin’ like that to your husband?” Lee slurred.
Joanne King could barely tolerate the hundred horsepower breath gusting into her face. Her husband had really gone on a binge this time. He was drunker than she could ever remember seeing him. She didn’t much like it — and had told him so.
“Please, Lee, don’t cause a scene.”
“Scene?! You stinking cunt! I’ll do any damn thing I damn well please and you’re not gonna say a fuckin’ word about it!”
“Why do you say that, Lee? Why?” she asked. “Teach you not to give me no more lip, that’s why!”
Joanne’s knees had turned to rubber. She felt her guts churm and go weak and watery. This was it. She had had it with Lee and his weekly drunks when she had married him almost twenty years ago, he had been a nice, easygoing sort of guy. But the pressures of getting a job, then hanging onto it, had preyed on him. He wasn’t the smartest or most talented man in the world, but Joanne had loved him.
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Note: This story is the same as catalog number EL-1024 in the original publications (a duplicate).