A Change of Air
By Ivan Gold, first published in New World Writing
When a group of college boys cross paths with a girl known for her infamous sexual activities, they try to entice her into a night out, only to find she has become a different person.
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Over the course of three days and nights, Bobbie Bedner sleeps with fifty-three men from Werewolves, a poker membership club in New York. The ordeal is voluntary, and she would even do it again, but her mother and the police send her to a reformatory hospital and Werewolves is broken up. Frank DeTorres and Joe Muneco were previously members of Werewolves and now spend their time playing club chess with elderly men on the lower East Side of the city. Joe joins three of his college friends for a drive around the city, and he happens to see Bobbie walking on the street. Telling his friends about her previous affair, they pull up next to her and try to get her to join them. Bobbie greets Joe happily and is hesitant to join them at first. Joe says they will be just driving around and introduces her to his friends. She joins them, and they go back to the chess club to pick up Frank. All the guys are eager to convince Bobbie to go to Frank’s place and eventually make a repeat of her ordeal with Werewolves. Some of them argue over the ethics of roping Bobbie into such a scandalous affair after she just recovered from the last one. Frank tries kissing her, but Bobbie rejects all his advances, explaining she does not do those things anymore. Frank gives up and goes home, but Bobbie is still eager to drive around the city like Joe initially proposed. The guys take Bobbie back home after realizing she has permanently change and question what type of psychiatrist could have change her so much.
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