What do you think?
Rate this book
After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
Human Contact: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
Synopsis - A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine")★★★
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine")★★★
27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 24, 2020
15 people are currently reading
25 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
January 13, 2021
A Good, and Timely, Scenario
He "MeToo" movement has brought many questionable actions to light and I have had a few discussions with friends that have highlighted our differences in perception about rape and assault. This story would provide a good place to start if one doesn't have personal experience to draw upon.
Thought provoking; at least, it should be.
He "MeToo" movement has brought many questionable actions to light and I have had a few discussions with friends that have highlighted our differences in perception about rape and assault. This story would provide a good place to start if one doesn't have personal experience to draw upon.
Thought provoking; at least, it should be.
May 27, 2021
Raaaaappeeee!
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. A parable or morality play about the difference between rape and bad sex.
Author freebie. Suitable for teens and adults. A parable or morality play about the difference between rape and bad sex.
September 17, 2024
“What are you looking for, Viola?”
“Human contact.”
Viola, 18, finds herself at a keg party. She’s really more of a white wine girl, so the beer disarms her.
Viola has had a very sheltered upbringing. Her inner monologues sound almost extraterrestrial in their loopiness.
Viola drinks at the party. Quite a few beers. And some weed. Then she sees the boy from her history class. They dance…and more.
The questions that this story raises are (obviously!) important. But the way that they are presented via Viola’s friends is…not it.
Consent is a crucial topic, but Viola’s clique and their histrionics do the issue a disservice. And the non-resolution is harmful to the narrative. Bizarre and, ultimately, non-substantive.
“You shouldn’t be too picky about people. Love should be free and abundant, given to everyone who asked.”
“Human contact.”
Viola, 18, finds herself at a keg party. She’s really more of a white wine girl, so the beer disarms her.
Viola has had a very sheltered upbringing. Her inner monologues sound almost extraterrestrial in their loopiness.
Viola drinks at the party. Quite a few beers. And some weed. Then she sees the boy from her history class. They dance…and more.
The questions that this story raises are (obviously!) important. But the way that they are presented via Viola’s friends is…not it.
Consent is a crucial topic, but Viola’s clique and their histrionics do the issue a disservice. And the non-resolution is harmful to the narrative. Bizarre and, ultimately, non-substantive.
“You shouldn’t be too picky about people. Love should be free and abundant, given to everyone who asked.”
November 4, 2020
Though I have a strong leaning in the moral dilemma that this story presents, I am sure that not everyone does. The story here would be a great way to bring up a hard topic for discussion. I hope it is used that way, and I hope people use this opportunity to really think about what they believe on the subject of Human Contact.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews