Summary Of We Didn T By Stuart Dybek

The first story in Chapter 2 was We Didn’t, written by Stuart Dybek. This story is about a young couple, the narrator and his girlfriend, Gin, who are both virgins. They have both been dating a while and they are ready to finally have sex. They go to a beach for their first time. They have been together for a while. While at the beach the narrator and Gin get ready to have sex. The narrator gets his condom out, but drops it, he tries dusting the sand off. He is close to getting inside her when the couple hears police sirens. The cops found a dead body, a pregnant woman who drowned to death, the young couple saw her dead body when the cops pulled her out of the water. They broke up later on because of arguing and never did end up sleeping with each other. The narrator loses his girlfriend. His relationship and how they both treated each other changed because of the dead body and all the questions they had because of it. “…kisses tasting of different shades of lip gloss…” was beautifully written, I could understand that they had been together for a while. “…felt the grains of
This story was about a man named Gabe who joined a Doom/Classical Goth Metal band called Lords of Sludge. He became the lead singer have the old lead singer left. The other three band member were scary looking Swedish men. He was pleased with their Satanic vibe, but he started to notice that these men has great manners, that confused him. These Swedish men then hired a woman who played the synthesizer, an instrument Gabe called “a pansy instrument,” she was talented and fit in. They played at their concert and were a hit and that’s when Gabe realized that Liz did belong and her instrument wasn’t useless. He also became a bit politer after spending so much time with the Sweds. My favorite line is the first line, “we must love nature, and we must rape nature for Satan!” That line definitely got me curious to see what the story was