Lechery (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Character study
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Near Pittsburgh
- Principal Characters: A fifteen-year-old girl, Uncle Wumpy, Kitty, Natalie
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
The Story
The narrator, an unnamed fifteen-year-old girl who knows she was abandoned when she was fourteen months old, in December, 1960, begins her story by saying that although she has no money, she must give herself what she needs. In between being arrested and being homeless after running away from the state-operated Children's Center, she survives by stealing food from the butcher shop and by enticing boys and young men, stimulating them with pornographic pictures and then feeling gratification through her power over their sexual release. She describes her...
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