Ryan’s Reviews > Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl > Status Update

…if you try one hundred times and you score five times, that's five more times than if you didn't try. And Paul tried for something every day [..] Paul tried for a smile, a look back, an eyeful, a number, some illicit hallway kiss, a blowjob, a romance, a massage, a handjob, a finger up an ass, a free show, a licked lip, a passed note, a present, a surprise, something good, something better than the nothing he had.

Poets partied and fiction writers stayed home to work.