Night Train to Florence

Italy, 1980s. The shy unnamed narrator and her tougher English friend, Liz, are booksmart but inexperienced 18-year-old students on a budget traveling around Northern Italy by train. As they share adventures, wine and conversation, their edgy friendship not surprisingly begins to deepen.

But it's on their final nocturnal train trip back to Florence that they go beyond friendship into an act of bold sexual experimentation...

This 3,200-word short story was first published in the Cleis Press anthology "Hot Ticket: Tales of Lesbians, Sex, and Travel."