Age Recommendation Novels & Stories

the lilt in her gentle voice says that the common tongue isn’t her first language. “So you are claimed?” I say loud enough for the rest. Hoping they’ll avoid putting the kid through any more upset. Far away I couldn’t tell, but up close and personal it’s clear she’s nowhere near old enough to provide the entertainment I was hoping for. Sixteen may be grown, but it’s nowhere near legal or desirable in my mind. Late twenties to early thirties are my sweet spot when it comes to humans. Old enough to know what they want, confident enough to explore, and young enough to bounce back from our more vigorous style of things pretty quickly.

No other man will have you. Mel suddenly felt invested, “How old are you again? Forty-six? You should get married and have a child before you turn fifty. Even that is quite late already. When your child turns twenty, you’ll be seventy. Would you still have the energy to guide your kids at that age?” “Pops is almost ninety and yet he can still scold me. I’ll probably live as long as him.” Mel isn’t convinced. “Your pops probably took good care of himself, especially his health. Oh…”

It's a chain of confusing numbers, but I hope it makes sense now. For the older generation, their ages don't really matter. We just assume them to be old enough to have kids of the above ages. (it is an approximation because the months of the events are not specified, hence the years might slightly alter by a month pre or post, making it exactly 12months difference or 15 months or even 11 months…..hence the approximation)