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Outwardly, suburbia maintains the straitlaced middle-class look that belies the social ferment behind closed doors.
There is the secret use of drugs, fed by the marijuana syndrome. There is the river of alcohol flooding from door to door under the euphemism of social drinking. Then, of course, inevitably there is the advent of wife-swapping. All in the spirit of good, clean fun… but where does the fun stop and the degradation begin? When one excess leads to another — and another — to what? When the children set as their own lifestyle what already is the norm at home?
This is the story of one family, in one town, Anywhere, U.S.A. It is startling as a mirror of a way of life behind closed doors. No facade. No regrets. Indeed, to them it is the norm.
And outside their lives go on. Business and its daily conflicts. School and its trials and triumphs.
THE FAMILY’S HOT RELATIONS — a novel of fiction for entertainment. A page of our restless society as food for serious thought.
The fly of Jane Hawthorne’s tight jeans was wide open. Her exposed bikini panties cut across the soft roll of her lower belly in a yellow ribbon, with her navel pouting just above the elastic waistband.
Bud noticed it from all the way across the room. He drifted over to Jane, approaching her casually so she wouldn’t be embarrassed.
“You’re unzipped,” he whispered in her ear.
Jane looked at him with a smirk. It was then that Bud realized how drunk she was.
“C’mon. Just zip up. I’ll stand in front of you so nobody can see. No problem.”
Even as high as she obviously was, Jane’s reckless response surprised Bud. “Leave me alone!” she snapped. “I don’t need you to tell me how to behave at my own party.”
“Please,” Bud persisted. “Don’t make a scene.”
“I’ll do whatever I want!” Jane hissed.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.