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History Lesson
Summer 1976. The Bicentennial is everywhere and Michael is eighteen, stuck in a college-town house working on an AP History project on Benedict Arnold.
Then the tenants arrive.
By August, the only history that matters is the one happening in the rooms above the driveway.
- Length: ~7,200 words. Short story.
- Tropes: Coming of age, first time, age gap, summer tenants, 1970s sexual revolution.
- Vibe: Drama, Bicentennial small-town heat, aching.
- Content: Explicit sexual content, age gap, infidelity
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