"So Shy" by Scott Sanders. Guest review by Dart.

This is a wonderful story. I loved it. Please read it. If you don't like it, you can throw darts, rubber tipped of course, at me.

Scott and Jenny are a couple of high school kids. Jenny is extremely shy; Scott is intrigued. He approaches her, and discovers the reason for her shyness is a bad stuttering problem. A problem he once suffered from himself, and a problem that still, under stress, occasionally reasserts itself. He tries to help her but is unsuccessful. Nevertheless, they become friends. He asks her out, and she accepts. They go to a movie; he's thrilled to hear her laugh at it. Then they eat, and park, and explore each other. Pretty straightforward stuff, but the loveliness of the story is in the details.

The plot is very believable, and the characters, especially Jenny, are nicely drawn. There is a point, when Scott first offers himself, sexually, to Jenny that he seems just a little out of character, a little harsher, a little more cavalier, than I expected. Still, if you've a teenaged daughter, this is a young man you'd be happy to have her date.

Finally, the story could have used a very light proofreading. That could have removed, a misspelling, an unneeded word, a harsh sentence, the few defects in the story.