Alphabetical Orders

Maybe it was turning forty that made Simon curious, who knows? He'd never asked about sex before and suddenly he was pestering me about all sorts of things. What did I like? Was there anything he could do better? Did he ever do anything that turned me off? That kind of thing. I didn't have the heart to tell him, but he kept at it. What kind of things did I think about when we made love? He really wanted to know. "I just think about things I've read in books," I told him, "and things we've done together." Actually, that's only partly true, but I didn't want to break his heart. Alphabetical Orders tells the story of the things I really imagine.