Lovers' Lane #20
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA woman recounts her emotional turmoil when an unexpected houseguest named Jack arrives, stirring feelings she struggles to control. The issue includes "The Charm Clinic," a feature offering beauty tips for enhancing the eyes through makeup application and proper eye care. The main narrative follows the narrator's conflicted romance with Jack, whose arrival disrupts her existing relationship, ultimately leading to heartbreak when she learns he has enlisted in the military and left without farewell. Later, the story shifts to a school setting where the narrator and her classmates gossip about Jack's return and his romantic entanglements, revealing the social complications and jealousy that ensue from his presence.
Patty and Mel haven't spoken since a summer quarrel over going steady, but when school starts in the fall, Mel asks her out to the movies like nothing happened—no apology, no explanation. As they spend the evening together rekindling what they once had, Mel pushes again for them to go steady, sparking a new battle of wills that turns into a drawn-out game of jealousy played out across school dances, parties, and skating rinks, with each of them deliberately dating other people to make the other jealous.
A young woman caught between two devoted longtime beaus finds her world turned upside down when a charming stranger named Bart Elwood moves into her neighborhood and pursues her with army-bred directness. As Hope Walton waits for Ned Stuart and Dick Nichols to return from camp so she can finally choose between them, she discovers that life—and the heart—have other plans in store. This 1952 romance explores what happens when the careful balance of affection tips unexpectedly, leaving everyone scrambling to figure out where they truly stand.
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Reprinted in Un Faux Livre #2 (2018)
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