![]() ![]() I was surprised that the magazine accepted it because it was about a young woman with her baby in a big city park counterattacking a man who exposes himself-counterattacking with curses and screams that send him running.Ī “likeable” young woman would never have been that loud. Hard to imagine now.īut back to Playgirl and my story. This was on the edge of an era when short story writers like John Updike and John Cheever could support a family off the money magazines paid for their short fiction. ![]() I was surprised when it was accepted, and even more surprised when I was paid a fair wage for my work-something like five hundred dollars ( roughly $2500 today). It seems strange now that the story I sold-” Girl Alone“-would not have been published anywhere else at that time. It’s now aimed at gay and bisexual men with lots of naked male photos and ads for on-line sex. It still exists, although you’ve probably never seen it or heard of it. For a while, the magazine was an attempt to offer a jazzier version of Ms. I sold a story once to a magazine called Playgirl. ![]() Playgirl magazine: May, 1974 – “Girl Alone” began on page 109. ![]()
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