That First Time

Christopher Coake is the author of a short story collection 'We're in Trouble' (Penguin/Harcourt).The stories previously appeared in journals such as 'Five Points', 'Epoch', 'Gettysburg Review' and 'The Southern Review'. In 2006 he was awarded the Robert Bingham Fellowship for best debut fiction from PEN American Center, and is currently at work on a novel set in turn-of-the-last-century Colorado. Coake, a native of Indiana, lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada. (He does not gamble.) He lives with his wife, Stephanie Lauer, and together they care for two very needy dogs. 'That First Time' is a new story.