Skinny Dipping and Other Stories is a collection of related short stories which take place in the early to mid 1950s. It is the beginning of a series of stories which take the two main characters through their lives.
Phil Boydon is an army brat, a veteran traveler of the world, though rather shy. After two years in Japan and a brief stay in Massachusettes he arrives in Northern Virginia towards the end of his seventh grade year. There he meets Elaine Goodman, an out-going classmate.
First they are friends, then enemies, then they fall in love.
Just as it seems that the world smiles on them they learn that Phil will go away to boarding school and each minute becomes more precious. And each minute alone becomes more dangerousl. Then disaster strikes.
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Both also knew that, mo matter what was to happen, no parent knew how serious they were about each other. This might separate them; it would not part them.
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Reviewed By Shirley Johnson
Author of A Divorced Mother Talks To God
I was not quite sure about Gene Moser's book, when I first began to read it.I thought the first story stopped quite abruptly and it annoyed me. That was not the case however. Gene wove each story into the following making for an interesting read.
Gene's main character, Phillip Boydon, is an Army brat. Raising my own children as Army brats, brought to remembrance many of the activities Gene recounts in his book. I enjoyed that. Phillip desperately tries to fit into a civilian world, but is often ousted by his peers, until he meets a young girl named Elaine Goodman.
Phillip and Elaine begin to taste young innocent love, and although I will not give away how far their love takes them, it definitely leads them down a path they did not want to go. Gene ends the book leaving you wondering what will become of Phillip and Elaine.
Skinny Dipping and Other Stories is a light, easy and enjoyable read. I look forward to seeing what turn Phillip and Elaine's lives will take in Gene's second book.
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Reviews for "Skinny Dipping and Other Stories"
Reviewed by Marilyn Morris
7/30/2002
As a "Brat" myself, I know that the author has captured the essence of the military brat's perpetual sense of "where do I fit in?" Added to that, his "take" on El's feelings and actions are entirely on target.
Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
