Linda Plays Hooky: The Maidenhead Tales, #1

By Star White

The Maidenhead Tales is a series of short stories that take place in the turbulent 60s and 70s. In the tales you will meet teenage Linda Upright who is very innocent, but with each ensuing year starting with 1963, we will see Linda evolve from ingénue to a free spirit and we will accompany her on her mystifying journey into womanhood during the "Age of Aquarius". The big question is: when will Linda find love and give "it" up in the name of love. 

Follow the tales to find out!

In Book 1, Linda Plays Hooky, 1963 was a pivotal year still immersed in all the values and motions of the 1950s, but a new collective consciousness was taking hold. Civil Rights awareness was coming to light and protests against the Vietnam War were starting to become more urgent and strident. President Kennedy was assassinated in November and the following year the Beatles came to the U.S., which kicked off the British Invasion of the American music scene.

Against this wavering backdrop, Linda Upright, a bored 16 year old high school junior, is struggling with typical teenage issues. Female breasts were on her mind almost as much as on the minds of the teenage boys who surrounded her. She recently discovered Paul McCartney and has developed a painful obsession with him - her first love of any kind.

Stuck at home with a mother also suffering from apathy and a father with Neanderthal attitudes toward women and society, Linda makes a decision that is going to make this nuclear family explode!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Star White Books
• Release date: Jul 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516343119

Book preview

Linda Plays Hooky

Book 1

of

The Maidenhead Tales

Copyright © 2015 by Star White

All rights reserved

No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously.

First edition published 2015

Second edition published 2019

~This is Dedicated to the One I Love~

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The author gives deepest gratitude and thanks to the Women of the Pale: Nancy McMillan, Edna Murphy, Lisa Quint, and Linda Strange for their bright insights and encouragement

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Booklist

About Star White

Chapter One

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1963

CHIPPED BEEF ON TOAST—YUCK! It was the regular Monday night meal of chipped beef on toast and another dull dinner with Mom and Dad. Linda pushed the soupy gray lumps of meat around on her plate as her parents droned on and on about boring stuff. Her parents were perfect squares as far as she was concerned and the whole scene was a major drag.

Linda’s older siblings, Ken and Nancy, had gone off to college at the beginning of the month so it was just Linda stranded at home with her parents, Bert and Lucille. The dinner table was the only time and place that the family talked to one another but with her brother and sister gone, she felt left out of their adult conversations.

Bert was Plant Manager for the local machine parts manufacturer. He had worked his way up to this position over the last twenty years. Bringing home the bacon was what he called it. He got up at five every morning and was in his office by six-fifteen a.m. and back home by five-thirty p.m. He expected dinner to be on the table at six p.m. sharp. After dinner, he read the rest of the paper he had started earlier in the day and was snoozing in front of the TV by eight-thirty. You could set your clock by her father’s schedule.

Linda played with her food while her dad ranted about his boss, his coworkers, and the government. Her mother seemed to be on her own planet as she rattled on about her plans to host a Tupperware party.

Taxes!