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Ernest Hemingway�s True at First Blush
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I have a confession to make. I have been posting a story. First I
called it �Torrid Teen�. Then I called it �Torrid Teens� and finally �Torrid
Tweens�. That�s what happens, I guess, when you�re a con artist. You�re
never quite sure what to call material you�re palming off as you�re own.
Well, perhaps �con artist� is too harsh a term. I mean, I wasn�t
trying to do any harm or anything. But after going to chapel today I finally
decided to come clean.
And what a day I chose for it! Last December I began receiving the
following story anonymously, from a contact in the publishing world who
withheld his name. Today, as I was preparing to confess that this story is
not in fact by me but was an anonymously written story, that was sent to
me, I received an important tip. It came from two sources who withheld
their names, but I feel their information is reliable.
The following story, previously titled �Torrid Tweens�, is actually
titled �True at First Blush�. It�s a story Ernest Hemingway wrote when he
was a boy in junior high school. Naturally it isn�t as accomplished as his
later work but it is, I think you�ll agree, more interesting than some tale
about the Spanish civil war.
So, I present to you, the most recently acquired chapters of �True at
First Blush.� Please don�t think that because I�m posting this from a
psychiatric ward has any effect on the veracity of my information about
this story. I�m only here temporarily, until I convince the doctors that I
really am Jesus Christ.
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Copyright 2001 by Andrew Roller.