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    Question How to locate a certain fiction story from Playboy's past?

    Many years ago I read a story in Playboy magazine that I would like to re-read.
    I tried to find its name via Google searches, without success.
    Can anyone suggest how to go about locating the story (name)?

    The details of the story are:
    A grown up is transposed by some scientist invention into his body as a young boy in the 1950s (concurrently, himself as a young boy is transposed to his older body). Trapped in a young boy's body, he has to cope with a tyrant and abusive father, and with having to go to school. He uses his knowledge of past sporting events' outcomes to gather a small fortune, which he invests in stocks he knows will gain in value when he's a grown-up, and put them in a safe (to be retrieved by his future self). He also invests in a young truck driver from Memphis' singing career. The main story line is his love affair with his primary school teacher, and the story climax is his first sex encounter with her, where he has to solve the problem of satisfying her with his boy's size limbs.

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    That sounds awesome you could try looking through the Playboy archives. If there is such a thing.
    Her hair was like a flowing cascade and her breasts were real awesome also.
    My ***** Better Have My Money by Fly Guy
    My ***** better have my money.
    Through rain, sleet, or snow,
    my ho better have my money.
    Not half, not some, but all my cash.
    Because if she don't, I'll put my foot dead in her ***.

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    Quote Originally Posted by E.A Rumfield View Post
    That sounds awesome you could try looking through the Playboy archives. If there is such a thing.
    Alas, I have been unable to locate such an archive.

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    I' going to take a guess here and say you are never going to find the story you are looking for. Post the same question on yahoo answers, you'll get more responses there at least.
    Her hair was like a flowing cascade and her breasts were real awesome also.
    My ***** Better Have My Money by Fly Guy
    My ***** better have my money.
    Through rain, sleet, or snow,
    my ho better have my money.
    Not half, not some, but all my cash.
    Because if she don't, I'll put my foot dead in her ***.

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    Thanks for the idea.

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    If you find the name of the author, you might find the story here:



    This anthology has some marvelous tales... and I vaguely remember a story not unlike what you describe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post
    If you find the name of the author, you might find the story here:



    This anthology has some marvelous tales... and I vaguely remember a story not unlike what you describe.
    Unfortunately no: I have this book and the story is not included therein.

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    Have you tried e-mailing Playboy? Send them what you know--plot, relative time you saw it, and the fact that it's not in the anthology--and maybe someone there will be able to help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calidore View Post
    Have you tried e-mailing Playboy? Send them what you know--plot, relative time you saw it, and the fact that it's not in the anthology--and maybe someone there will be able to help.
    Thanks for the suggestion: I sent the request to Playboy's editor (no reply yet).

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    I believe that I read that sometime.

    You might email Playboy and see if someone there can help. They probably do have detailed records, even if those are not online.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterL View Post
    I believe that I read that sometime.

    You might email Playboy and see if someone there can help. They probably do have detailed records, even if those are not online.
    Thanks, see http://www.online-literature.com/for...05&postcount=9

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