Fiction | December 10, 2012
Jennifer, Naked
John Clayton
Jennifer, my then wife Jennifer, sat naked on the beach sheet in her lean, youthful beauty. The rest of us—me and my friend and colleague Sam Franklin and Elsa, his wife—we had bathing suits on. We sat under a high dune as the tide went out, leaving a wide swathe of smooth, wet sand.
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