"Foretaste" by Uther Pendragon (anon584c@nyx.net). Bob and Jeanette are continuing with their journey through life. This story is heavily laced with the realities of existence. They have partially overcome their financial problems, but now they are faced with the decision of deferring Jeanette's education even longer while they have a baby and begin to raise a family. Their sex life continues to be a unitive force in their lives. Some activities they have found wanting and have discarded, and some they have found wanton and have retained them.

Here's a sex-related word that appears in this story for probably the first time ever on this newsgroup: "blastomere", as in, "We had entered into another relationship. Our child was not yet born, not even a fetus, but -- at most -- a blastomere." Just thought you might like to know.