Ecstatic and Erotic Utterances

Merritt had moved from a small town in the Ozark Mountains to the "e;big city"e; of Joplin, Missouri, ostensibly to go to the state college there. Instead, unknown to her strict religious parents, the twenty-four-year-old had gotten a job waiting tables in a restaurant along the Interstate. And from there, the temptations and wonders of the world opened up to her. She'd made a few friends. Had her...