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I just had a very quick look, and think you should take it down until your bata reader has had a go at it. Phrases like "It's Friday as you can see" jarred me (how can you see Friday?) I felt that Eunice wasn't reacting to him as a woman of that age would. I've never seen an old woman who meets a man and describes him out loud like that. It might just about work if she were young and making a move on him, not otherwise. And her behaviour afterwards did not ring true to me.
I'm getting confused. The first scene seems to be a flashback containing another flashback. When you end a flashback, you need to let the reader know you've done it. Is Eunice the woman in the first paragraph? Once you've named her, call her by name, not "the woman".
Who is Kelly?
Maybe it's just me, but all that pulling at his balls is not a turn-on. It would be different if someone else was doing it. Why did he not get Terry arrested and charged with assault? If the pain is bad enough to reduce him to tears, why is he worrying about dress-up costumes?
Almost all the action in the first chapter is in flashback, not present action.
I think I'd rather see an opening scene where Skipper does something that makes me like him.
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