Cooper Beckett - A Life Less Monogamous

I’m confident that many of them are quite happy with their lives, and more power to them. But as news trickles in through the grapevine of troubles all around, I observe that a lot of them peaked early. That they had their days of fun and those days are behind them. It’s time to be grown-ups now.

Which is, I think, why we “play.” By “we”, I mean swingers.

They’ve all grown up to their grown-up jobs and their grown-up responsibilities and their grown-up hobbies (like fly fishing) and their grown-up lawn mowing and dog walking and carpooling and minivanning; all looking back on what The Boss called Glory Days . Days that can’t be recaptured. Days that are long gone. As though they’ve forgotten where the fun is and have replaced it with simulacrum.

But still, we play.

We haven’t forgotten how to play. From the youngest playmate I’ve had in their twenties to the oldest in their fifties, we remember to enjoy… to suck the aforementioned marrow out of life (as well as other stuff out of other things) and seize us some diem .

I’m tempted to reach out to some of them and remind them that they can still have fun being grown-ups. Others it just makes me snigger that I’ve finally found something cool that I get to do and they don’t. ’Cuz even if I can’t fathom that I might be considered cool, I’m doing something that not many people get to do in their lives, and something that might cause others, even that high school jock, to envy me.

Holy shit, that’s odd.

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Copyright © 2016 by Cooper S. Beckett

Cover Illustration by Corbett Vanoni

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The events and stories in this book are true, but the ravages of time consume us all, so they may no longer be entirely factual. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty alike. Your mileage may vary.

Published Internationally by Hump and Circumstance

Printed in the United States

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First Edition

First Printing: February, 2016

ISBN: 978-1518685712

BISAC: Fiction / Literary

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Chicago, Illinois

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