I have
Requiem. I think you're thinking of the "Puddin'" stories. They were ok. "Cliff and the Calories" was so-so, but the other one was better -- I've forgotten its name now, and my copy of
Requiem is packed away, with no ebook available, dagnabit!
Heinlein wrote about the origins of Puddin' (real name Maureen) in
Expanded Universe:
Quote:
The editor who disliked science fiction (and me) but liked my sales grumbled to me, on my delivering my annual boys' novel, that she did wish that someone would write girls' stories. I answered, "Very well, I'll write a story for girls. When do you want it?"
She was simultaneously astonished, offended, and amused at the ridiculous and arrogant notion that a mere man could write stories for girls. So that's how Puddin' was born: I started writing first-person-female-adolescent stories-but not for that old harridan....
I grew so fond of Maureen that I helped her to get rid of that excess weight, changed her name to "Podkayne," and moved her to Mars (along with her unbearable kid brother). And now and again she turns up under other names in other science fiction stories.
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Which would be fine, except that the Puddin' stories are actually about her, and
Podkayne, as I've pointed out, more or less wasn't.
