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by Tina Barry
A cute wife, three thriving kids, and a surgical practice with appointments booked months in advance, so what did he need a disco in the Jersey suburbs for? A few patients brought their mistresses, hustled beneath the mirrored ball. Local college kids partied there once, twice to grind in the club’s dark corners, and then…nothing. After the final Mai-tai was swirled, the doctor dedicated twenty years to writing an erotic thriller. I should have waited for the book to show up at a garage sale, and not purchased it for Mom from Amazon. Before I bought the novel, I could count on “books you might enjoy” reminders, with titles about political policy and Jungian theory, but after: Wet Stewardesses and Becoming her Sexual Beast.
Tina Barry’s third collection I Tell Henrietta was published in 2024 (Aim Higher Press). Her poetry and short fiction can be found in Gooseberry Pie, The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2020, SoFloPoJo, Rattle, Verse Daily and elsewhere.
