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Most of us lead two lives—real and fantasy. The housewife imagines herself leading a life of luxury, surrounded by jewels and furs. The businessman imagines himself away from the rat race, painting or fishing by a quiet lake. The schoolboy dreams of becoming a famous athlete. And then there are sexual fantasies—wild dreams that we seldom expect to come true.
Is it best to suppress our desires and fantasies, or to bring them out in the open and act on them? Does their repression lead to sickness, or does their fulfillment bring shame? No one has yet been able to answer these questions satisfactorily.
In this story, the characters have decided not to repress their sexual desires and fantasies—and for some of them they must suffer the consequences, while others find ultimate happiness.
THE ORAL LIBRARIAN—a story that deals with a sexual dilemma that confronts us all in one form or another. We cannot pass judgment on the solutions of others. We can only look at them with an open mind, seeing how some members of our society face the problem.
Annie had climbed into the loft of the barn to see if she could find some sparrow eggs. She knew the birds were nesting there and though she never took any, she liked to roll the smooth, pale things in her palm. It wasn’t true that sparrows wouldn’t come back to the eggs after a human touched them. Annie had watched plenty of birds and they didn’t seem to mind at all. She was almost to the nest on the rafter when she heard male laughter below. Going to her hands and knees, Annie peered through a large split in the floor.
“Bet you five bucks I could get in Annie’s pants if I wasn’t afraid of what her old man would do. Hell, our folks’ve been neighbors for ten years. It really hangs me up, god damn it. And her walking around in that little silky dress and barefoot and all. Christ, she makes my prick so hard a cat couldn’t scratch it.”
Annie held her breath. The boy who’d said that was Ned Trenton whom her father took on as a hired hand every summer. The boy laughing now was Buddy, his younger brother.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.