Sparks Summary

"Sparks" is narrated from a first-person point of view by a somewhat unreliable narrator named Lil. The narrator is a woman probably in her mid-twenties. Lil narrates a story about an evening party she attended a few nights earlier. Throughout the narration, she remembers prior events she experienced with Duer, a former lover. The events of the evening party are narrated in chronological order, but the recollections are presented in a complex and out-of-sequence manner. The time span of related events is indeterminate, but covers at least 4 and probably 9 or 10 years. In the following summary the timeline is presented entirely in chronological order.

When Lil was 15, she had her first sexual intercourse with Duer. At that time Duer was also approximately 15 years old. They were discovered by Lil's mother, but her mother simply ignored the situation and never spoke about it to anyone...