title: Keeping House
author: Ibach, Max
description: Jessica Stoner, a flight attendant flying an overseas route for a major airline, arrives home to find that her live-in lover just departed for Florida to be with an old flame. Barbara Dexter, her best friend, calls her at three o’clock in the morning to announce that she is leaving town. Jessica discovers that Barb has set her up for a nine o’clock appointment with Garrett Appleyard, Barb’s former employer. Garrett, a multi-millionaire businessman, needs a housekeeper. When Jessica learns that the job comes with a six-figure income, furnished quarters, and an expensive new car, she realizes that the job entails more than pushing a vacuum cleaner around the floor. Jessica listens as Barb offers her a long, mesmerizing, exquisitely detailed description of the now-deceased Mrs. Appleyard’s sexual performances. She also extols Garrett’s prowess as a lover.
  As she listens, Jessica opens her mail, and discovers that the now-downsizing airline just laid her off. Jessica realizes that she must get a new job right suddenly. Having debated with herself, she decides to keep the appointment Barb made her to be interviewed by Garrett Appleyard.
  Having been thoroughly briefed by Barb about what will be expected of her during the interview, Jessica dresses in a manner sure to capture the attention of her prospective employer. Having used the key Barb provided to enter Garrett’s house, Jessica catches a glimpse of Garrett Appleyard emerging from the shower. The sight of his powerfully erotic arsenal proves a massive turn-on. Thus stimulated, Jessica returns hastily to the dining room, where Garrett finds her waiting.
  Jessica’s résumé consists of twelve professionally photographed, highly provocative shots of her nude, lovely self in yoga positions. The interview self-generates into a sexual frenzy that advances from feral desire into an intoxicating lustfest by two lively souls. The afternoon that follows involves every form of active urgency two people can dream up. A carnal marathon burns through the story like jet fuel through an afterburner. It’s love at first sight for both partners. Will love drive two talented experts in erotic artistry to marry?