Juliet Gagon's short story, Fumbling with New Skin, is a serious and thought-provoking work of fiction which links together the post-9/11 anthrax scares, the AIDS pandemic in American society, and the narrator's personal experiences of intimacy, safety and danger. Readers are warned that the story contains passages with explicit descriptions of a sexual nature. If for any reasons of personal or religious conviction, you may be offended by or be uncomfortable with such descriptions, please click here to return to the contents page.

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