Story: The One That Got Away

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The One That Got Away

from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee

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Life Will Get You in the End:
Short Stories by David Satterlee

A young man decides to introduce himself to one of a cluster of girls. What could go wrong? Wrong enough that the reader gets two endings to choose from.

The One That Got Away

A Fergus Johnson story of gender relations

[Note: Contains mildly erotic descriptive imagery.]

Fergus Johnson has been watching a group of girls for several minutes now. Fergus is seventeen. That’s one of the truly awkward ages between toddling and toupees. 

One of the girls is gorgeous. It’s not entirely the close-fitting but not-quite-tight pure-white dress she’s wearing, with long sleeves, a tailored waist, and a hem four inches above her knees. The dress accents her sleek neck and trim but neatly muscled legs, which seem to go all the way to the floor. Okay, Fergus has actually been staring for several minutes now while she talks and eats an ice cream cone.

The white dress has a scooped neck, which reveals a flawless expanse of chest, heaving gently as she talks. A slender silver necklace suspends a large teardrop crystal in just the right place to

Poem: No Ifs About It

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No Ifs About It

Life Will Get You in the End:
Short Stories by David Satterlee

from the book: Life Will Get You in the End:
Short stories by David Satterlee

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An indecent (ie: not ready for prime time) proposal. A young man practices proposing (to his sister's stuffed doll, from the sounds of it). He probably shouldn't try this one on a real girl. Birdies and puppies and fish, oh my!  

No Ifs About It

If I had a little bird

Who sang a song to me,

Then I would build a home for it

Hung high up in a tree.

   Or

If I had a puppy dog

Who’d cry in pure delight

Then I would lay a rug for it

So it could sleep at night.

   Or

If I had a bowl of fish

Who'd swim and flit around

Then I would make their water fresh

And keep them safe and sound.

   But

If I had you here with me

I’d love you for all time.

And I would share my life. I would

Be yours and you’d be mine.

                                 February 29, 1972