The Bitch In Heat
December, 1956
The Bitch in HeatThe Noisy Restaurant was the duplicate of all the other coffee shops on campus: groups of bespectacled, untidy male students blew crumbs at each other in an excited exchange of moist ideas; young lovers in sweaters bent heads together, their cups and plates pushed away untouched; lone graduate students chewed food and read solemnly from big books.The boy who shared his booth with the most beautiful girl in the room--a thin dark girl with perfect lips and large calm eyes--knew sh...