Author: C.S. Vanek (pseud.)

About: Author Vanek is back with a multi-part narrative covering life after SHAPES. Your typical girl-girl, girl-boy, girl-boy-girl affair, there's a plot around here somewhere, and scenes involving whipping.

First published 1969.

Excerpt:

She rose slowly to her feet.

“Did I do wrong?” she asked tonelessly. She might have been a child. I thought I saw disappointment in the careful set of her expression.

“Go and sit down,” I said firmly.

The girl brightened.

“Yes, Mr. Grace.” She sounded relieved. On her way to the chair she gave me a backward glance that made my heart pound rapidly. Her eyes glowed in an ecstasy of surrender that I recognized instantly. It was a look I had never seen in another's eyes but I had felt it often enough in my own.

“We can't talk here,” I said curtly.

Zoe Knox nodded.

I looked at my watch.

“It's eleven-thirty. Be at the Hotel Palmerston at two.”

“Yes, Mr. Grace.”

“Reception will tell you which room.”

“Yes, Mr. Grace.”

I started to look through my mail. The door closed quietly behind her. I picked up the phone and dialed the Palmerston number.

The Marie Antoinette suite was available.

 

I wouldn't go so far as to say I was rocked back on my heels by Zoe Knox's unusual behavior. I had never met her before this morning but there had always been talk about “the girl who did the sexy drawings.” There were rumors of wild parties attended by some of our salesmen at which Zoe had taken off most of her clothes and had been passed from guest to guest. “And at one point she was being screwed by some guy from the Coast right there in front of everybody.” It was Bill Connors, one of the new salesmen who had told me that.

“She has round heels, huh?” from me. I was still new at SHAPES at that time, and I was not particularly interested. One heard the same story about some girl or other in every company.

“I guess that's what most people would say,” Bill had replied. “But I'll tell you something. There was something strange about the whole scene. She wasn't like the broads you usually come across doing things like that. This one, Zoe whatsername, she acted like she had to put out for anyone who wanted her.”

I had become curious.