All Comments on 'The Present'

Not sure I see the rationale for lying about the foreman being unknown, but if I grant THAT, then I don't see the rationale for admitting it after all!

An adult woman can't get over an unrequited lust for a teen crush (or maybe it was NOT getting the HC Queen title?) This may be a wonderful one-off, but I don't think I would want any more than a week-end with her! (maybe a 3-day week-end?)

...but extra points for the shotgun house reference. Actually, one extra point, because what you described was not a shotgun house. It was a railroad house. Shotgun's don't have any hall at all. The rooms are in a line like you say, but they are connected by doors not a common hallway. You typically walk into the living room at the front and to get to the kitchen at the back, you have to walk straight down the middle of a bedroom or two.

Railroad houses have a common hallway on one side that connects the rooms and the doors open onto that hallway like compartments on a Pullman car.

No criticism of the sex in the story. It seemed to follow established conventions.

Carry on.

I liked the story line but you didn't finish it.

When can we expect the rest of the story?