Sara was 18 years old. A beautiful young girl. She was getting ready to join the cheerleading squad at school, and for this she needed to get a physical done and have an approval from her doctor that she was in good health. Her mom made an appointment to take her in. Her mother told her that they would be going to see Dr. Redding. He had be Sara’s moms docto...
A Simple Plan (2) Friday, 31 May "You know Emma," Sadie said as they sat together at breakfast. "Brianna and I have been talking about our next move. We think it must be your turn now." "My turn? What do you mean?" Emma said innocently, although she knew perfectly well what Sadie was getting at. "Well I got some good film of Miss Hunter, and Brianna got...
As Ruth Williams and Vera Starikovich reached Chicago they were greeted by Jasmine, Ruth's oldest sister, at the bus station. After introductions were made, Jasmine had no objection to taking Vera back to the Williams home on Excalibur Street; after all Ruth was the owner and Jasmine had her own place. Vera's personality soon won Jasmine over and when Vera w...
So let's start with the basics. I am 29, male, and from the U.S. Until this past year I had not had a physical exam since my high school sports physical. Why would I? I'm in great shape. Besides, like most boys that age, an old Indian guy (my pediatrician at the time) giving me the "turn your head and cough" drill wasn't exactly a huge motivating factor for...
I made an appointment for my second gyn exam only six months after the first, ostensibly to get birth control pills. But maybe it was because another exam was the sexiest thing I could imagine happening to me since I was still a virgin and was not dating actively. I had thought about my previous exam a great deal, particularly when lying alone in my bed in t...
Caty sat nervously on the edge of the waiting room chair, subconsciously flexing her feet, echoing the choreography of the dance class she'd just left. She didn't want to be there — god, how she didn't want to be there — but the college was quite specific about ordering a physical, and the deadline was rapidly approaching. If she didn't do it in the next few...
Here I am at age 75, sitting on the cemented porch of our red brick home in the southern hill country of Appalachia. This is where Appalachia and the deep south merged. This is the gentile deep south which only half a century ago was rocked by social unrest, civil disobedience and threats from old south whites and radical blacks. I'm listening to the rising...
Sara is married with a son named Frederick. He is 18 years old. Her husband Steve is always working, she considers him a workaholic. Sara a 45 year old stay at home mom, who feels she is missing out on life, she has a nice house and new car, but she is lonely, finding excitement having an affair with her husband's accountant Robert. The nightmare starting in...
This is the assignment that Mark and his wife have been waiting for. Mark is a photographer specializing in magazine photography. His wife is a writer and reporter. Boston Women's Hospital called to do a photo shoot for a new type Endocam for GYN exams. The photos will be going into the New England Journal of Medicine alone with an article written by his wif...
It was late October, one of her favorite times of the year. She was away at college and the semester had been dragging along. Things were about to pick up though as Halloween fell on a Friday and she had just the right outfit picked out to inspire a fun weekend. As she sat in class, she couldn't help thinking about what she was going to wear out to the frat...