Heathcliff Be Damned

Helen Pappas teaches Wuthering Heights to San Francisco undergrads who think Heathcliff is hot. She wrote her whole dissertation on why he isn't. Then Jake Collins, the boy next door her mother half-raised, kisses her in the family kitchen, then disappears for three weeks. He turns up at movie night with a girlfriend from Oakland.

Heathcliff Be Damned is a warm, funny romance about a man who burns every bit as hard as Heathcliff and spends that fire folding her fitted sheets, until he learns that wanting her out loud won't turn him into his father.

Part of The Green Room collection of stories.

Contents

Chapter 1: Twelve Feet

Chapter 2: The Bridge

Chapter 3: Forty-Seven Posts

Chapter 4: Guard Dropping

Chapter 5: Watch Your Back, Collins: Noodles, The Cat, Watch Your Back

Chapter 6: Mom's Day

Chapter 7: Honest

Chapter 8: Backstage: The Knock, The Doorframe, The One Who Folds the Sheets

Chapter 9: It's Not the Volume: The Thought That Counts, The Roof, Upstairs

Epilogue: The Last Day of the Unit, Mom's Day