The Life of Boswell
by Jerry Oltion
Michael Wagoner doesn't really want to be an English major and write poetry for the rest
of his life, but what choice does he have—until the first day of his final semester
when he meets a centerfold.
All innocence, she turned to the middle, opened the gatefold, held it out sideways, then
vertically. I dropped the beer when she shouted, “Grandma!”
“The Life of Boswell” by Jerry Oltion, in Analog,
December 1984.