- 250 pages
- English
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Speed Dating for Sperm Donors
About this book
Can a lesbian couple find Mr. Right?
Helen and Paige really want a baby. Maybe even two. They've decided they want to use a sperm donor, but because of Paige's own upbringing as an adopted child they want the donor to at least be known to the child. This challenge makes the normally anonymous favour even harder and more intimate than they expected. And then there are the options for donors. Through the fast-paced "dating" of several candidates, all of whom come with their own warning labels, Helen and Paige's relationship is strained to a point where they must remember why they set out on this journey together in the first place.
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Speed Dating for Sperm Donors
Scene 1: Flat Out No
Paige and Helen’s condo in Calgary, Alberta. There are signs of renovation underway. The kitchen space, however, is relatively intact and they sit having a drink with Trent, Helen’s buddy from university.
Trent drains his glass.
Trent: That tasted like another.
(to Helen) Grab you a cold one?
Helen: No, I’m good.
He holds up Helen’s glass, sniffs.
Trent: That’s not even beer. What’s in there?
Helen: Just club soda —
Trent: Club soda? That’s not the Helen Murphy I knew in our tree-planting days.
Paige: Is that right?
Trent: Drink me under the table, she could. Any man, woman, or beast in the tree-planting camp. Including the bush pilots.
Helen: Now let’s not exaggerate.
Trent: Oh ho! Don’t let this mild-mannered school-teacher persona she’s rocking now fool you.
He jerks his thumb at Helen.
Shotgun Helen they used to call her.
Helen: Trent?
Trent: Please don’t tell me we’ve lost another one. You in recovery?
Helen: No. I’m just . . . not drinking at the moment. Taking a break.
Trent: A break. Alrighty then.
He offers a drink to Paige, but she also shakes her head no.
Paige: And for how much longer are you in town?
Trent: Four days and counting, then it’s back to the sandbox.
He glances at his watch.
Speaking of which, I got to take a whiz and then I should head. Going to the mountains early tomorrow to get my ski on.
He leaves for the washroom.
Paige: Merde, just ask him.
Helen: I’m trying.
Paige: He’s “the one” you say. Why hesitate?
Helen: I’m working up to it.
Paige: If I must sit here drinking fizzy water until you pop the question, I’ll explode.
Helen: It’s not that easy —
Paige: He leaves tomorrow. Back to Dubai.
Helen: Doha.
Paige: Same thing.
Helen: Actually, no —
Paige: They’re both far. You know what I mean.
Helen: I don’t think I can do this. I better just write to him.
Paige: But you were waiting to ask him in person.
Helen: True.
Paige: You are being such a girl right now.
Helen: Being a girl — babe, I am a girl.
Paige: Do you want this or not?
Helen: You know I do, but it’s complicated. I think he might be seeing someone. He mentioned a woman’s name when I was taking off his coat.
Paige: A woman?
Helen: He’s always hard to pin down with these things.
Paige: But he’s supposed to be gay.
Helen: Supposed to be?
Paige: We agreed to ask him because he’s gay.
Helen: We agreed to ask him ’cause he’s my bestie — I never said he was gay.
Paige: But he has such great taste in clothes. His haircut, it’s misleading.
Helen: Women quite often think so, but no. Wait, are you saying he can’t be our donor because he’s straight? Because that would be reverse discrimination.
Paige: No —
Helen: We’d be bigots backward. Backward bigots.
Paige: I just think that you could have warned me.
Helen: How would that ever come up? Wait, that’s not a deal breaker, is it? Just because he isn’t?
Trent has come back from the bathroom and overhears the very last bit.
Trent: Isn’t what?
They jump, surprised that he’s back so quickly, and answer simultaneously:
Helen: Aries. / Paige: Gay.
Trent: Oh that.
Helen: Paige!
Trent: No worries, folks often assume —
Paige: Excuse me, I meant no —
Trent: I’...
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Production History
- Characters
- Speed Dating for Sperm Donors
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author