Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX (10) - The Coming of Spring

By Gene Clements

In the Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX series, our favorite sexagenarians describe, in sometimes hilarious and sometimes scandalous detail, their slow motion coming of age in the Midwest in the early sixties. From their clumsy first date to the first time they go “all the way” (on the second try), you’ll gasp at Elmer’s stupidity, smile at Tilly’s (real or faked?) innocence, and perhaps shed a tear of recognition at the blundering beauty of their first time.
Spring 1963 is nearly at hand, and now that Tilly and Elmer have finally gone “ALL THE WAY”, what they want to do, really, the only thing they want to do, is practice. It’s not so easy in the winter, although they find some surprising ways to express their love for each other, but as spring comes, they find it easier to study their favorite subject together.

"Tilly looked down at Elmer’s lean, naked body, and began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Elmer wanted to know.
“That part of you looks like a little prairie dog poking its head out of its burrow every time I move!"
Elmer responded by reciting a familiar cheer from the South Branch High Prairie Dog cheerleading squad:

“South Branch High is going to soar
Our Prairie Dogs are bound to win,
Now’s a perfect time to score
Come on boys, let’s put it in.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gene Clements
• Release date: Aug 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311414342

Gene Clements

Gene Clements is an artist, architect, and educator. He began the Tilly and Elmer series by writing a couple of paragraphs about a frisky older couple. His friends thought they were funny and wanted to find out what was going to happen if he finished the story. Now they know, for better or worse.Gene grew up in a small town in the Midwest although he now lives in California. He thinks he’s eighteen, but he’s really the same age as Tilly and Elmer. These stories aren’t necessarily autobiographical. Gene knows a lot of interesting people and has a prolific imagination; a dangerous combination.

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The Coming of Spring

Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX

Book 10

Gene Clements

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Gene Clements

The Coming of Spring

Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX

Book 10

Gene Clements

This is a work of fiction. Events, places, characters or names are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Any references to historical events, places, or real people are used fictitiously. All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.

Copyright 2014, 2015 Gene Clements

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Author’s Note

The Coming of Spring

About the Author

More About Tilly and Elmer

Other Titles in the Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX series

Other Tilly and Elmer Titles

Author’s Note:

These fictional stories chronicle the romantic, usually erotic, and almost always humorous, adventures of Tilly and Elmer, a Midwestern couple in their late sixties. They’ve been married for close to fifty years, and would appear to the casual observer to be the definition of an old married couple. But while they ARE a couple, AND married, they don’t consider themselves OLD. In fact, they still feel like teenagers most of the time, although sometimes events remind them that they aren’t quite as athletic, skinny, or flexible, as they were five decades ago. No matter. They try to recapture their youth anyway; and when they can’t quite recapture it, they at least give it a good chase.

In this series, Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX, they remember their high school dating years, from their first date to the night they finally go all the way. You may find these stories sounding a little familiar as Tilly and Elmer reveal the clumsy interactions, the shocking miscommunication, and the catastrophes that seem funny in retrospect, as well as the surprising delights and breathtaking pleasures of learning about sex and falling hopelessly in love.

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