![]() Hard to imagine now.īut back to Playgirl and my story. This was on the edge of an era when short story writers like John Updike and John Cheever could support a family off the money magazines paid for their short fiction. I was surprised when it was accepted, and even more surprised when I was paid a fair wage for my work-something like five hundred dollars ( roughly $2500 today). It seems strange now that the story I sold-” Girl Alone“-would not have been published anywhere else at that time. It’s now aimed at gay and bisexual men with lots of naked male photos and ads for on-line sex. It still exists, although you’ve probably never seen it or heard of it. For a while, the magazine was an attempt to offer a jazzier version of Ms. I sold a story once to a magazine called Playgirl. Playgirl magazine: May, 1974 – “Girl Alone” began on page 109. ![]()
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