“f**k!” exclaimed the duchess.
I remember Herbert Givens, one of my English professors, saying it was crucial for a novel to have an attention-grabbing first line. He elicited chuckles from the class when he offered the line about the duchess as an example. I’ve always wanted to use it. So there it is, even though it has nothing to do with what happened between Russ and me.
When I say “what happened” I make it sound as if there were some kind of incident. It wasn’t like that at all. I guess I’d better tell you about where and when we met. Or should I tell you about me first?
Maybe you’d be smart to leave now.
What? You’re still here? Okay, it’s your funeral. So let me introduce myself. I’m Baxter Crouse, Ed.D., known to my friends and occasional lovers as Bax. Yeah, I’d been an English
