Falling Hard – Keira Michelle Telford

“It’s such a wicked sin,” Evelyn mumbled from time to time, often while relishing the ebbing contractions of an exquisite orgasm, as if reminding herself how far she’d strayed, but she no longer denied her passions. Then everything fell apart. 1945 began with a calamity when the unsuspecting WAC who had the misfortune of pulling Charge of Quarters one night caught them smooching in the day room after a late evening of drinking. The look on the poor woman’s face defied description.

They’d been a little too loud and a little too free, and faced severe reprimands for their actions. Fortunately for them both, discharge for such behavior was seldom the preferred resolution in the Women’s Army Corps. With recruitment in decline, it wouldn’t do anyone any good to give the lingering slander campaign a boost by acknowledging the presence of sexual degenerates among its ranks.

Instead, officers were instructed to resolve any arising issues by separating the troublesome individuals, and since Penny bore the brunt of the blame—declaring most insistently that Evelyn was drunk and not in her right mind, else she’d never have engaged in such behavior—it was Penny who took the punishment.

Effective immediately, she was given new orders. Much to Evelyn’s great distress, she was ejected from the barracks that very night and packed off to Fort Oglethorpe—a WAC training camp in Georgia—where she underwent additional preparations before being shipped overseas to serve in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Evelyn wanted out of the Corps right there and then, but she was trapped.

And everyone in the company knew. Nobody spoke about it, but they all knew. Whispers abounded in the barracks, and she felt she might die of shame. It was downright humiliating, and she rather thought Penny got the better end of the deal. Perhaps not in environmental comforts, but at least she got to be someplace new. Someplace she could hide. For the remainder of her service, Evelyn kept to herself and chalked the affair up to a momentary loss of sense.

War made everyone crazy, and she’d succumbed to a temporary insanity.

Image ‘Silence Means Security’ (creation date 1942 – 1945) is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of their official duties, under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code, and is therefore in the public domain. The original image is held by the National Archives and Records Administration, catalogued under the identifier: 515987. Photograph of Evelyn McHale (1942) from Normandy High School yearbook, being published prior to 1977 and lacking official copyright notice and/or renewal with the US Copyright Office, is in the public domain.

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. www.venaticpress.com OceanofPDF.com dedicated to the memory of Evelyn Francis McHale September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947 OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com TEN O’CLOCK Evelyn steps out of Penn Station onto Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan.

Her mind is set. Instead of catching a connecting train home to Long Island, she dashes across the street and checks in to the Governor Clinton Hotel. Not that she plans on using the room. It’s ten o’clock in the morning; she doesn’t need sleep. She only needs access to the writing room. Inside, she shrugs off her gray pea coat and slings it over the back of an overstuffed fabric chair at one of several small mahogany writing desks lined along one wall.

Upon sitting, she sets her white kid leather gloves aside with her scarf and pocketbook and plucks a single sheet of thick, watermarked paper from the dispenser. It has to be done, but how? How is one meant to write a note like this? Is there a protocol she ought to follow? A proper form? She uncaps a gold-nibbed fountain pen and sets to work, but her first three attempts end up in the wastebasket at the foot of the desk.

Not because the content is poor, but because her hand is shaking. Some of the letters are crooked and malformed, hesitation visible in the strokes. The fourth attempt goes better.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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