Journeyman

I knew Asenath and Rick in the late seventies, when we were all members of the New Haven Science Fiction Society, with the acronym pronounced "Fred". They were a few years older than I, engaged on the serious business of life, while I was an impoverished and still frivolous college student. We only overlapped for a few meetings, including a very small Halloween party. I was dressed as the Queen of the Night (and had to alternate between explaining the opera to non-opera fans and saying no, I could not sing those arias to opera fans). Rick was dressed as an off-duty astronaut in a jumpsuit that looked like a formal version of a gas station attendant's uniform. I can't remember whether Asenath was wearing a costume or simply dressed normally, for her. Either way, she was much more glamorous and glittering than anyone else there.

She was friendly and kind to me. I never met her again after that.