tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9435598828603826422024-03-12T22:14:58.230-02:30Writers on the Wharf This is my writer's blog offered up to any and all writers who wish to promote their works. If all goes well, I will be hosting fun interviews with many authors, be with a publisher or indie.Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-41679508350008025512014-03-29T10:55:00.001-02:302014-03-29T10:55:13.406-02:30Ian Hutson, NGLND XPX, The Queen and Purple beans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"B-blog Hop? What's that some fancy 60's dance?"<br />
I stare at Gerard in disbelief and smack him upside the head. <br />
"No, you dummy. The ASMSG Electorate Interview Blog Hop is where various bloggers from my writer's group all sign up to interview and promote various authors. I get to interview Ian Hutson and I'm so excited!"<br />
"Ian Hutson? Is that the fellow who wrote that cool book, NGLD XPX?"<br />
"Yep."<br />
Suddenly I feel a vibration that shakes the wharf.<br />
"Jayus, Mary and Jo Henry! An earthquake! Hide!"<br />
Gerard grabs me to pull me down but we see the source of the vibration coming around the corner. A fine looking gentleman dressed in safari attire flanked by an elephant wearing a Diesel-Electric Elephant company sweatshirt. I rush to embrace Ian and his elephant and guide them to the shed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome, Ian, have a seat, sorry that it is not more comfy, but a
poor fishing season has forced me to reduce my furniture to two milk
crates, but I have plenty of refreshments, care to have one?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Splendid
- while you</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">re
at the bar mine</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
a pint of Hendrick</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
Gin please, ice and no slice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for coming, Ian. Though I have known you for years, these
yahoos drinking beer in the back are unfamiliar with you, share a
little about yourself, pretty please.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me,
myself and I hmm? Bit of a mongrel really. Father was a
radio-operator on deep-sea fishing trawlers (when radios on trawlers
were new-fangled, cabin-sized things). He was recruited by Her
Majesty</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
little grey men during the Cold War era and morphed into an
elctronic-warfare expert - all jamming of spy signals and setting up
beacons for nuclear V-Bombers to home in on, that sort of nonsense.
Mother gleefully adapted to whatever our family</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
extremes threw at her, and did whatever was necessary or possible
from being a scary person in the Civil Defence Corps to factory work
to home-making to Lord and Lady event-hopping elegant socialite. We
moved to Hong Kong when I was born and as a consequence I grew up
speaking mostly Cantonese with just a little pidgin English. Later we
moved to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides where I had the joys
of being the only sassenach sprog in our village. I had twelve
schools and seventeen different home addresses as a child, I used to
think we were on the run. We may have been.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
I was all growed up (sic) I got recruited myself by Her Majesty</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
Very UnCivil Service and did some very icky jobs indeed. Ten years
later Her Maj threw me out on my ear, so I left and made myself
miserable by working for huge, soul-less, vile corporations with
acronyms instead of names: ITSA; ICL; IBM; EDS; AVIVA and suchlike.
They then threw me out too (can you see a pattern emerging here?) so
I started my own companies doing various things, and promptly met the
Big Global Meltdown. I found myself slightly tipsy and very
officially bankrupted in court, homeless with car and valuables
carted away by the official receiver</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
(yes, that still happens). I had the last laugh though by</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
getting up at dawn to</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
syphon all but a teaspoonful of fuel out of my car before the men in
warehouse coats took the keys and drove her away</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
loaded with some of my stuff</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
I gave them a cheery wave and an estimate of a quarter of a mile
before they would need to push.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
now live in a hedgerow in Lincolnshire as a vegetarian of some forty
years, the past five years a vegan, non-theist, peacenik hippie and
my hobbies are budgeting on pennies, watching clouds and darning my
underwear. I love dogs; cats and I just don</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
understand each other. In the interesting affliction line, I am
terrified of wasps and bees and hornets etc, and I have trypophobia -
the sight of patterns or formations of holes in things upsets my
equilibrium mightily, both mentally and physically. The world is only
just starting to believe that it is a genuine condition, albeit a
very silly one indeed. One of my favourite colours is tangerine. I
love curries and my idea of serious exercise is my usual daily
five-mile walk through the lanes, ranting at sparrows and traffic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lovely. Purple beans or Green eggs and ham for breakfast? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
say - I don</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
suppose that I might have a pot of thick, black French coffee and a
stack of hot toast and Marmite instead could I? Or porridge made to
my personal </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poonah
in </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">43
or </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">44
Indian Army</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
recipe? One cup of oats, one cup of whisky, heat and serve
immediately, repeating as necessary until the day looks either
approachable or is cancelled altogether by the M.O.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have seen NGLND XPX on The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company website
and I would love to pick it up, but before I do, could you tell me a
little about it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well,
perhaps the first thingie to explain is the title! I loathe </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">text
speak</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
with a vengeance, so using NGLND XPX in lieu of </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">England
Expects</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is tongue firmly in cheek. I also reckon that most of the world takes
itself far, far too seriously, so this book is an anthology of
semi-scifi blatherings all taking the Michael. Victorian inventors
spend their days as drunk as skunks and crashing steam trains, Queen
Victoria shoots the last </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">no-win
no-fee</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
solicitor, the human species leaves the planet altogether in Mr Sir
Richard Branson</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
latest invention - the space-worthy Model-T Virgin, and a labrador
dog vomits in a goldfish-bowl spacesuit helmet while some terribly
English chaps play cricket and deal with a rogue comet hurtling
towards Earth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wow, NGLND XPX sounds intriguing, is there a particular part of the
story that you really enjoyed writing?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
enjoyed them all at the time of writing, and I dislike them all now!
I love the freedom of the blank page, the licence to create any kind
of world and any kind of situation. Fiction is so much better than
real life...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I knew it was too good to be true for the back of the shed gang to be this quiet. Jack rudely interrupts. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hey
dude, tell us who your favourite character(s) are!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
favourites? Well, I quite like the various steam-locomotive engineers
and inventors that I mercilessly caricatured. While they all had the
morals and politics of Victorian sewer-rats, they did rather invent
the </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">modern</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
world for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sorry about that, but Jack's question brought another question to
light, "If NGLND XPX were to be optioned for a movie, who do you
see playing your main character(s)?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well,
assuming rather wildly that Canal+ or Ealing Studios or some such
were to fork over a squillion Euro-Lira-Pfennigs for the rights and
then choose the story </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Blood-Curdling
Screams and The Whitworth Screw-Thread”... Maggie Smith would need
to play an irreverent Queen Victoria, Bill Nighy could choose
whatever inventor character he wished and I’d love to see the cast
filled up with Timothy Spall, Paul McGann and Paul Bettany and a host
of similar others. That’s assuming that I can’t instead somehow
go back to the era of James Robertson Justice, Fenella Fielding, Dirk
Bogarde and Margaret Rutherford...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They will be perfect, Ian. I could really see that actor(s) playing
that part. I was wondering, as a person who writes on the side,
during my down time, my writing process starts with forming the story
in my head before I put pen to paper, what is your writing process
like?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chaotic.
The inside of my mind is a clutter of constantly-playing cartoon
versions of the world, sometimes I can grab one and start to write it
down. I force myself to plan the whole story but then write it
piecemeal and stitch it together in the laboratory, usually during
electrical storms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who would you rather see in a string bikini, Queen Elizabeth or
Prince Charles?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
a treasonous notion - and how bilious a notion in either case. Do
please excuse me while I vomit and then ring for the Yeomen Of The
Guard to have you carted off to The Tower. Are you sure I couldn</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
stumble upon Clive Owen in just wellington boots and a smile instead?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Out of the corner of my eye I see Terrance stagger towards us, beer in hand and trip over the lobster pot on the floor, spilling beer all over Ian and his elephant. I bury my head in my hands as he belches and demands to know: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"All of this sounds fascinating but I heard
writing is a hell of a lot of work, why do you do it, what do you get
out of it?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[After
wringing out my shirt and lapping up the spilt beer - waste not sober
not, as Mother used to say.] Writing is a huge amount of work, and if
you add on marketing it is a ridiculous amount of work, and I have no
idea why I do it. None of my friends or relatives have a clue. My
best guess is that since I am destined to be depicted upside down and
hanging like a loon from my branch of our family tree, I might as
well leave some proof of insanity lying around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks for the awkward segue, Terrance, now go over with the
rest of the b'ys and let me and Ian have our yarn. Terrance
asked you why you like to write, now I want to ask you, is there
anything about writing you don't like?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nope.
There are some things about reading that I dislike - gratuitous sex
scenes; poor spelling, grammar and </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">global</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
English make me cringe. Violence seems to have replaced variety in
this era, and vampires and zombies leave me stone cold. Political
correctness can make me groan and consider burning a book.</span></span></div>
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I reach over and hide the vampire manuscript I'm currently working on, under the crate. </div>
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When you write, what is it that you hope your readers take away from
your story?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
chuckle; a seriously alternative view of some of the world; slightly
less weight on their shoulders; a few ideas to ponder when next they
are stuck in the bathroom for desperate, lonely hours, pondering the
addition of more fibre to their diet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you have any other stories you are currently writing or are
planning to write?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enough
to occupy me full-time for about two years! I</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ve
just about finished the next anthology - </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Cat Wore Electric Goggles</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
(more terribly English scifi) and then I must dive into a time-travel
romp on the world</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
oceans - </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rupert
Of The High Seas</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Lingering in the background I am slowly compiling a factual account
of my disasters, close shaves and hairy brides from the years when I
worked as an Edwardian-style, bellows camera flash-bang-wallop
photographer - </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Confessions
of a Vintage Photographer</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
latter includes true tales about the octogenarian bride who formally
accused me of stealing her three-foot wide purple straw hat, and of
the time when I was all set up on the Southbank in London and some
cretinous oik whom I shall never forgive delivered Mr Johnny Depp to
the wrong venue, so our session was cancelled. Oh yes - and the day
when I was running an exhibition at a stately home in Cheshire and
quite without knowing it I calmly served the stately home</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
resident ghost - </span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
White Lady</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A very important question about protecting the environment, in your
honest opinion do you think a vehicle run on farts would run
efficiently and stop our need for the</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
other</i></span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
gas?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
would if it were mine and if I were to be fed a diet of Jerusalem
Artichokes, yes. Seriously. I am one of a tiny minority who have a
ridiculous allergy to the things, and it manifests itself with
life-threatening, uncontrollable, cartoon-worthy farts. On the last
(the very last) occasion when I unknowingly ate Jerusalem Artichokes
I kid you not, I was on the verge of dialling 999 for an ambulance
and having to explain why. Hooked up to a road-vehicle I would have
broken world land-speed records and probably single-handedly
re-popularised the Sousaphone as a musical instrument. Imagine that
being read out by the coroner as cause of death - he died of terminal
flatulence, M</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lud.
His buttocks simply couldn</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
take the stress.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the others,
Ian me ol' chap. It has been a real pleasure. You and the elephant
are welcome anytime. As I said before, I have seen NGLND XPX online
at The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company, is there anywhere else your
book is available and what formats?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
website - <a href="http://www.dieselelectricelephant.co.uk/">http://www.dieselelectricelephant.co.uk</a> [The
Diesel-Electric Elephant Company]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Twitter
- <a href="http://twitter.com/dieselelephants">http://twitter.com/dieselelephants</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> [ @dieselelephants ]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NGLND
XPX</span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on
Amazon.com - <a href="http://amzn.com/B00FU4BSUW" target="_blank">http://amzn.com/B00FU4BSUW</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on
Smashwords - <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366646" target="_blank">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366646</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on
Itunes - <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/nglnd-xpx/id731856778?mt=11" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/nglnd-xpx/id731856778?mt=11</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on
Kobo - <a href="http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/nglnd-xpx" target="_blank">http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/nglnd-xpx</a></span></span></div>
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Ian was kind enough to leave behind his personal album for us to have a gander at:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"No you dummy. It's a contemporary romance."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jack rolls his eyes and groans. "Not another chick book!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I pick up Corinne Kilgore's novel and held it to me. "This is not a chick book, it's so much more. I love how this author turned the genre upside down!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Oh yeah, how?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Why don't you and the rest of the b'ys stay? The author is coming by in a few moments to tell us all about it."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jack thought for a few moments before answering. "Is it okay we bring by some beers?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Only if you promise to stay in the back and keep quiet."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jack flashed me his most sincere smile. "Now, haven't we always behaved ourselves?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before I could fire off a retort, Jack slipped away, chuckling to himself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The gang were settled with their beer when Corrine arrived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome, have a seat. I know you probably heard that I had only milk
crates to sit on but have since acquired these Lazy Boy recliners. I
hope they are more comfortable.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Nice
chairs. Coffee, please? No cream, just too much sugar for my own
good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for coming <span style="color: #c00000;">
</span>though
I have known you for years, this yahoos are unfamiliar with you,
share a little about yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Glad
to be here. Hmm, well. I am thirty-two. I currently live in West
Virginia, but have lived in seventeen different places, from Texas to
Ontario, Canada. I don’t stay in one place too well, but I’m
trying this time to sit still. I have two degrees – one in
Anthropology and one in History, neither of which I have done a thing
with. I do suppose they have helped in my writing. I work on a
contract basis as a web developer, part time, and write any time I’m
not doing something else like eating. Sleeping is sometimes optional.
My husband and I are parents to two cats.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm the proud owner <span style="color: red;">All
These Pieces of Me</span>
could you please tell us a little about it?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">It’s
a Contemporary Romance, but I tried to be a little different in my
approach to it than your typical romance. I’ve noticed that many
romances lately are full of tiring angst and loose plots driven by
characters making dumb decisions. While this can sometimes be
entertaining, it wasn’t what I wanted for my series. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">It’s
set in my old stomping grounds – Dallas, Texas, and contains
characters that are a little off the beaten path. They struggle with
personal issues, ranging from physical deformities to mental health
problems like autism and obsessive compulsive disorder. I also
included light elements of the BDSM lifestyle. I wanted to show both
that people with real issues can find love and that the BDSM
lifestyle doesn’t always take place in some dark dungeon with whips
and chains. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">It’s
all a bit of a risk – not having a bunch of angst, not having the
typical dungeonesque BDSM and using characters who are functionally
and physically flawed, but I don’t like writing topics that are
typical. </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, sounds intriguing, is there a particular part of the story
that you really enjoyed writing?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Dealing
with mental and physical issues is always an interesting path to walk
down as a writer. You have to consider how those issues will affect
how both the character is perceived by others and also how that
character’s worldview is shaped by their own hang-ups. I also
enjoyed exploring how BDSM can be a lifestyle that normal, everyday
people can and do partake in. It’s still taboo and not something
you typically announce to your friends and family, but you don’t
have to go to a black-windowed club to find it, either. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "Hey
dude, tell us who your favourite character(s) are!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hang my head in shame. I should've known that Jack wouldn't keep his trap shut.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Well,
hello Jack. Brandon is the main protagonist in this book, and he was
a real joy to explore. He is dealing with the mental and physical
scars left behind from incidents in his past and has basically given
up on women. That is, until Emma stumbles into his world and blows it
apart. Ian, who is the main protagonist for book 2, Obsessive
Compulsion, was also one of my favorites</span>.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry about that, but Jack's question brought another question to
light, "If <span style="color: #c00000;"> </span>were to be optioned for
a movie, who do you see playing your main character(s)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Hmm,
I’m not much of an actor buff, but I would guess that I’d like
Henry Cavill to play Brandon, Zooey Deschanel to play Emma, Tom
Hiddleston to play Ian, Alexander Skarsgard to play Saul… but I
think I would actually look for some non-star actors, too. I suppose
that’s what a casting agent is for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They will be perfect, I could really see those actors playing that
part. I was wondering, as a person who writes on the side, during my
down time, my writing process starts with forming the story in my
head before I put pen to paper, what is your writing process like?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">A
lot of dreaming and very little planning. I am a total “pantster”.
I just start typing and let whatever comes out have it’s say. I
don’t try to force things in a certain direction. Most of the
twists and things in my books happen by surprise to me, and I often
wonder where it all comes from. So, I wish I could share some sort of
writing secret, but I don’t have one. I just write. Period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm enjoying this conversation with Corrine and the minimal interruptions, until Terrance approaches us, tripping over the fishing net Frank carelessly left in the middle of the floor, spilling his beer all over my guest. I'm horrified. Not missing a beat he rudely states "All of this sounds fascinating but I heard
writing is a hell of a lot of work, why do you do it, what do you get
out of it?"</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Careful
now, don’t waste the brew! I enjoy writing. I like creating little
worlds, giving characters basic shapes and then setting them free in
these little worlds and see what they do with it all. I used to play
video games, and still do on occasion, but I was always playing for
the story lines and not the action. I decided I could have even more
fun if I wrote the stories myself, and so now I spend most of my free
time writing worlds instead of playing in worlds someone else has
created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks for the awkward segue, Terrance, now go over with the
rest of the b'ys and let me and Corinne have our yarn. Terrance asked
you why you like to write, now I want to ask you, is there anything
about writing you don't like?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Publishing.
It’s hard being self-published, trying to market your book and
getting people to read it and provide feedback. I like the control of
being self-published, but I’m still trying to figure out everything
else.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you write, what is it that you hope your readers take away from
your story?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Perhaps
a new way of looking at things? I try to offer unique and unexplored
perspectives in my books, and I hope that the reader is able to enjoy
the story, openly relate to one or more of the characters and
continue thinking about the story and characters after the book has
been finished. As a reader, I love books that stick with me long
after I’ve moved on, and I hope my books are like that for some
readers, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you have any other stories you are currently writing or are
planning to write?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">All
These Pieces of Me is the first in a four book series called The
Stables. Book two, Obsessive Compulsion, will be released in January
of 2014. I also have a Space Opera series, The Corwint Central Agent
Files, and book 4 for that series is also coming out in 2014. Book 1
for that series, Ghost in the Machine, is free. I know not many
people have experience with Space Opera outside of Star Wars and Star
Trek, so I hope they are willing to give a free book in the genre a
try. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the others, it
has been a real pleasure. As I said before, I have seen <span style="color: red;">All
These Pieces of Me</span> online at <span style="color: red;">Amazon</span>
is there anywhere else your book is available and what formats?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Thanks
for having me! All of my books are available from Amazon and
Smashwords. My Space Opera series is also available for Nook, iBooks
and Kobo. I’m working on getting All These Pieces of Me available
at those outlets too. All these Pieces of Me is also available on All
Romance / OmniLit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">For
all the links to my books, you can go to </span><a href="http://www.cekilgore.com/"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><u>http://www.cekilgore.com</u></span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-79913967997331549912013-11-01T19:10:00.001-02:302013-11-01T19:10:27.370-02:30Luna Aeturnus and the Simon OKill Jack and Terrance stand on my wharf and gaze up at the pale blue moon in awe. <br />
"That's one pretty moon out there tonight b'y."<br />
"Ya, that's some nice."<br />
I wander over with a glass of red wine and observe the stunning vision with them. "You know that this moon reminds me of my friend Simon's new novel."<br />
"Oh really, how?" Inquires Terrance.<br />
"He has a moon like that on his cover with a stunning woman on it."<br />
"I love Simon's stuff! That lad has been here before and his novels are exciting!" Jack added a little too enthusiastically.<br />
"I'm glad to hear it Jack! Did you read this latest one, <span style="color: blue;">Luna Aeturnus?"</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">"What did ya think?"</span><br />
"It was a dizzy ride but I loved every moment!"<br />
"Well, the shed is packed full dying here what Luna is all about. Care to tell them?"<br />
Jack thought for a moment and agreed. "Be happy to!"<br />
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Eternal, is still incarcerated in an asylum, trapped by her amnesia. Only her
true love, Edouard, can help rediscover her identity. But the startling truth
attracts the attention of The Count, the secret leader of a vampire cult. The
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<span lang="EN-GB">MY BIO:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I live with my wife, Shirlee Anne in a pretty coastal town in South
Wales, UK. We both love Stephen King and had read many of his books and enjoyed
their transition to the screen. Due to our love of books, my wife and I dabbled
in writing for some years as a hobby. We were approached by a film company to
write a paranormal TV series. We struggled most nights and all through weekends
to come up with 22 episodes only for the company to go bust. Then after an
accident at work, I was forced into early retirement due to disability. I used
my newfound skills as a writer to help with my depression. We decided to use
our TV series episodes as templates for film scripts and novels. My writing
became more serious as certain A-list actors expressed interest in my scripts.
I now have 3 books published - Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe -
Luna Sanguis and Luna Aeturnus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Luna Historica</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> is the final episode and will explore Eternal’s birth during
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Bigfoot Episode 2/3 – </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">it’s a secret!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S<strong>S-steppenwolf </strong></b>is a
supernatural retelling of WWII involving the Occult Warfare department run by
Himmler.<strong> Think Indiana Jones searching for a werewolf.</strong><br />
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Scripts: <br />
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<strong>‘Flip Side’</strong> is one of my most exciting screenplays to date
with its unusual slant on a supernatural gangster story that encompasses music
and dynamic dance sequences to portray the action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>‘Nightmare Circus’</strong> is a supernatural revenge mystery script
set in the Australian outback. <br />
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<strong>‘Dark House’</strong> is set in Massachusetts, US, where a lonely
female artist must overcome her agoraphobia to escape from three kidnappers
holed up in a house haunted by a witch finder’s hanging tree. <br />
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<strong>‘Circus of Blood’</strong> is a horror script set in Rome AD79 where
two citizens go on a dangerous quest to kill a brutal serial killer. Their
adventures end in Pompeii.<br />
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<strong>‘Hunter’s Moon’</strong> is a contemporary supernatural western script
set on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.<br />
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<strong>The Last Warlord</strong> is set during WWII and tells of Major Stewart
of MI6 who must find the Nazi’s secret Atlantis base in Antarctica or the
entire world will be doomed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Delicate Rose is a young woman nearing her Eternal Vampire state
as her 19<sup>th</sup> birthday approaches. She was born on June 6<sup>th</sup>,
1906 at precisely 6am during the zenith of the Eternal Moon. And in less than
24 hours the Eternal Moon shall shine once more to bring forth Eternal, a
vampire so powerful, nothing can stop her. But, she is held captive within the
walls of an asylum with no means of escape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eternal wakes up in her
tiny prison-style room with just one thought - her true love must rescue her
and help her escape. Something stirs in her subconscious. Something
otherworldly yearns to be set free by the next full moon – the date of her
Eternal Birthday, just 24 hours away. Can she survive long enough for the final
transformation? Her only hope is Edouard, her designated true love and
psychiatrist treating her. But the more memories that surface the stronger
Eternal becomes and yet she must depend on her true love for her very existence
for out there somewhere, the evil Count Lucien is relishing the hunt for her
blood – and nothing will stop him from becoming Eternal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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draws closer, Count Lucien and his two other Suckling Vampires track down her
unmistakeable allure to the village of Douvrey. She is so close Lucien can
almost feel her. His hatred boils over as his addiction to her blood fries his
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trail of corpses as his rage boils over. Where is his Delicate Rose? Having
slaughtered all those who might know her whereabouts he has no choice but to
hide from the sun. Mother nature has given Eternal a moment to succeed. But as
Lucien sleeps to regain his strength the demonic Bonbon attacks Eternal with
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her eyes to face the demon Bonbon, while Edouard lies exhausted on his bed. She
is alone and must summon her darkness. Can she survive long enough for the
final transformation? Can Edouard defeat Count Lucien and so free her of his
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<span lang="EN-GB">Edouard stepped into a vacuum of eternal love.
He went rigid with shock as the patient was indeed the woman of his dreams. He
recalled the strange feelings since his arrival and the reoccurrence of the
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eternal.</i> This beguiling woman
was connected to him as if fate had welded their souls together. He breathed
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presence, almost staring right through him with her wondrous black eyes. And
that music filled his soul to bursting. He had a strong desire to take her from
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<span lang="EN-GB">Eternal reached out with a frail hand and
grasped Edouard’s strength. He shuddered with her divine ecstasy, her ancient
power coursing through his flesh, blood, sinews and nerves. She allowed him to
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<span lang="EN-GB">She looked around the circular stone room
with the slit window and thought she was back at the chateau. Eternal smiled
into those green eyes. She had loved this man ever since their first meeting at
Troy. Once again, they stood together upon the ramparts of the fortress
laughing down at the folly of Agamemnon’s army. Her beloved Paris hugged her
closely in a wondrous embrace. With lips parted, Helen gently brushed Paris’
full lips in a moment lost in time – a moment lost in eternity that lasted for
a mere heartbeat. The moment evaporated as he drew back from her kiss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lucien brooded, silently listening, waiting
to hear her dark music. He could feel her presence; but where and how close. She
would never enter a place of worship, but he had been fooled by her. Could his
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sledgehammer in his chest at the thought of his Delicate Rose begging for
mercy. He grew a hard on with the thought of her offering herself in
reconciliation for their abrupt separation, before he drank every drop of her
ancient essence to be Eternal. As for Jacques and Claudette – so what if they
needed Eternal’s blood as badly as he did. They could suffer the consequences.
Let their addiction burn their blood dry and fry their brains. Her blood was
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<o:p> </o:p> </span>Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-84550740431941534572013-10-31T08:50:00.002-02:302013-10-31T09:41:24.208-02:30Let There Be Blood Last Post!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nightmare<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When
the first light of dawn cracked through the curtains, Aaron kissed Martina
lightly on her shoulder and slipped out of her bed to shower in his room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Last night as Martina lay wrapped up in his arms, snoring
softly, Aaron couldn’t help but reflect on his life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">This was a true moment of clarity, where his mind for
once was not clouded by lustful revenge. Revenge that he took out on three
innocent people. Aaron couldn’t blame anyone else for his evil deeds, but he
hadn’t done his deeds alone. He had a partner, a silent partner, who lusted for
revenge as deeply as did. It wasn’t Katrina. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron had been fighting the lust for revenge since that
horrific week two years ago. He’d been winning, until the dreams of his
parent’s deaths began haunting him again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron knew that he’d to seek vengeance but it would take
cunning and detailed planning. This is where his silent partner came in,
offering her assistance with the planning and execution if Aaron agreed to
combine their missions. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Both their plans have been going off smoothly. Deep down,
when he allowed his mind to wander back to his old life, Aaron knew he couldn’t
keep up the soul-sucking revenge forever. He needed to face his demons. The
only way was to deal with the incident that changed his life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Let There Be Blood</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> had become a roaring success, with fans numbering
the millions globally by the end of its sixth season. Aaron and Avery were at
the top of their game, each boasting a fan base in the hundreds of thousands.
Aaron had been featured on dozens of magazine covers. He’d scored an Oscar nod
in the global blockbuster of the previous summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That night, he was on top of the world. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He’d just come back from a staff Halloween party that his
cast mates hosted in aid for a children’s charity. It had been a blast, with a
hundred children and their parents and siblings. All played games, danced, and
ate many Halloween treats. Aaron was in a good mood, but he was anxious to get
home and pull off his Lance Peterson character clothes and fangs. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Unexpectedly, a small group of four men came out of the
shadows and confronted him. He recognized them right away. They were the
bullies that taunted him and made high school a living hell. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Well, look at the lard-ass in his makeup, slicked-back
do, and cheap-ass monster fangs. You may be Mr. Hollywood, but you’re still that
pathetic, lard-ass nerd.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Though you have to admit, Daniel, that whale that he
used to hang around with certainly has grown up to be a grade A MILF. Tell me,
Brooks, did you fuck that bitch yet?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron refused to respond and walked towards his house. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Hey, motherfucker, where do you think you’re going?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The actor held his head high and chose to remain silent.
He continued up the path and was about to unlock his front door. Then Aaron
felt a blinding sting before he met the darkness. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When Aaron awoke, he found himself cold and unable to
move. He tried, but met resistance. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Go ahead and struggle, loser, you’re not going to get
free.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Free? Where am I?” Aaron rasped. A fog of blinding pain
radiated from every part of his body. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Take a good, hard look,” said an unfamiliar voice. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The actor realized with growing horror that he hung from
a leaking ceiling, naked and bleeding.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Who are you? Why are y</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">you doing this to me?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You’re an idiot, Brooks. Your head is so far up your
lard-ass that you can’t see that you’re in the basement of our old school.
You’re being held by five old friends that are seeking payback.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t understand.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Let me refresh your memory, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mr. Hollywood.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron stared at his kidnapper through his swollen eyes.
Through his limited vision, he managed to recognize the one who was taunting
him. He was dressed in a tight fitting t-shirt and jeans complete with hiking
boots, and everything else about him screamed<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> military</i>. His ramrod straight posture, stern drill sergeant
expression, and bulging muscles couldn’t hide the familiar face. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Daniel Richards.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel drew himself closer to Aaron, so close that there
was barely a breath between them. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That’s Lieutenant Commander Richards, to you, you
pussy-stealing scumbag!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The prisoner felt the heat of the Lieutenant Commander’s
rancid breath.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“W-what did I do?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In response, Daniel punched Aaron in the
stomach so hard that it knocked the wind out of him. Aaron swore he heard his
ribs break. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel paused as he marched around the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“April of last year, the cast mates and crew
of that two-bit disgrace you call a show held a surprise birthday party for you
at the Four Seasons hotel in New York. Do you remember?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I…” Aaron rasped, “I remember.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “During the party,
you consumed several glasses of champagne and mingled among your guests. As
usual, many women and some men hung all over you like a cheap suit.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Argh! I know.” The prisoner winced with blinding pain.
“It’s the price of fame.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You fuck anything that swoons over you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That’s a common…” Aaron paused as the pain that came
with each breath, stole it away. “Myth. I don’t fuck everyone that pants over
me. I have moral standards.” Daniel responded with a hard slap across Aaron’s
face. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“If you had moral standards, you bastard, then why did
you take home one of the waitresses at the party and fuck her?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel let the statement hang in the air. He watched the
actor struggle to remember. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, okay, I admit, in a moment of weakness I became
very friendly throughout the evening with one of the waitresses at my party. We
flirted throughout the evening and we clicked instantly.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“May I ask why you picked that particular waitress?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I found her very attractive, easygoing and very sweet,
so I asked her back to my hotel room to join me in a birthday nightcap.” Aaron
paused to take a breath.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What happened after you took her back to your motel
room?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Seriously? You can’t be asking me that. You know what
happened. It’s the whole reason I’m here!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Indulge me, you prick. I want a briefing, and you’re
going to give me one.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “We had a few
drinks and a lovely conversation and before I knew it, she kissed me. I kissed
her back. We became lost in one another and made love. It was a wonderful
experience for me. The following morning I asked her if she would like to go
out to dinner with me, but she turned me down.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Did she say why she turned you down?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, she said that while it was an amazing experience,
there could be no future for us. She just needed for one night to experience a
caring man’s arms around her, making her feel like a woman again.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Did this waitress say anything else, or did she just
leave your lard-ass behind?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No, she said it
was time for her to get back to reality. That’s the last I saw of her.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel paused his interrogation to once again punch him
in the gut. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I guess she was just another notch on your bed post.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, on the contrary. I didn’t want our time together to
be so brief. I wanted to know more about her. I tried to contact her, but she
refused to respond to any of my messages. After a friend told me to let her go,
I stopped.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Stopped to move on to more pussy. Tell me, Brooks, did
you ever bother to know her name?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Of course, otherwise, how did I contact her?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What was her name?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What does it matter to you?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Tell me what her name was!” Daniel yelled into Aaron’s
face. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Cecilia! Cecilia Richards.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Is that all you can say after fucking my wife? Do you
know what even happened after your one-night stand?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No. I told you that she didn’t respond to any of my efforts
to contact her.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I suspected that something was up when I returned from
my tour in the Baltic Sea. I expected a warm reception from my wife after being
gone for six months. She was cold and distant. I don’t like long silences and
flippant attitudes from anyone, so I browbeat her into telling me the truth.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron watched as his tormentor fell silent and closed his
eyes. “It was then she told me that she’d had a one night stand six weeks
prior, and that she was pregnant.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Alarm coursed through Aaron like a lightning bolt. He was
a father. So many questions sped through his mind. Why didn’t she tell him? Was
his child a boy or a girl? What was the baby’s name? Where were the baby and
Cecilia? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I see by the look on your smug face that you had no idea
that my wife was pregnant with your baby. Not that you’d have cared. Manwhores
like you are only in it for the easy lay! To hell with the consequences!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Where is the baby?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Why in the fuck do you care?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I do care. If she had come to me, I’d have helped her
and the child. After all, he or she is a part of me.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Well, if I did, by some miracle, believe what you were
saying, it makes no point. Both my slut of a wife and her bastard child are
dead.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Dead?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, they are dead. After I beat her for betraying me,
she ran out of the house and got hit by a car. They both died on impact. Do you
want to know why I beat the bitch? I beat her 7because after trying for ten
years to get pregnant with nothing but failure and heartbreak, she picks up
some stud at a party and let him bang her without protection so she could get
knocked up.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I had no idea.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That may be, Mr. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollywood,
</i>but that doesn’t take away the sting of her betrayal. You did in one night
what I couldn’t do in a decade! I’m a military hero, loved and respected by my
peers, charges and the brass. I’m the living embodiment of what a red-blooded
American man is supposed to be, and I couldn’t get my wife pregnant.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel paused and appeared to be composing himself before
he blasted Aaron with more barely-contained rage. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Do you hear what I’m saying, Brooks? I said that I
couldn’t knock up my wife, but an insignificant actor who used to be a ten-ton
lard-ass with a limp puny dick, did. Do you know how that makes me feel?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron only shook his head. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I loathe you, Brooks, and you’re going to pay for what
you’ve done. My friends and I are going to make sure of it.” Suddenly, as if
out of nowhere, three other men came out of the shadows and stood before him.
He knew everyone. “Brian Saunders, Steve Logan and Kieran Mulligan. Goodie, a
bully reunion. Just like old times.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He stared at the mob before him, Four angry men with rage
deep their souls and murder on their minds stared down their captive. His naked
body was bruised and bleeding. He dangled from the ceiling like a prize deer
they were going to gut. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“This is going to be nothing like old times, Brooks,
because back in high school we were easy on you. Now, you’re going to feel real
pain.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Now, if you are a
good boy, we will let you down so we can play. First, I’m going to let my
colleagues have a go at you. Go ahead, sailors; it’s an old-fashioned beat down
with the dangling princess.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron swallowed his fear and bit back the pain. Each man
took turns punching, kicking and strangling him with their bare hands. They
beat him until he passed out. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When he woke up, he found himself untied from the ceiling
and on a mattress on the floor. His body was broken and swollen but for now, he
was mercifully numb. “Well, look who’s up and ready to join us in the real
world. Ready for another lesson, Brooks?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Go to hell, Richards.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’d be careful of your threats, lard-ass, because we’re
not done playing with you yet. There’s nothing you can do to stop us.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Lieutenant, may we ask what you’ve in store next for our
prisoner?” Kieran Mulligan questioned in his thick Irish accent. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Go and get our special guest and get the others in here.
It’s time to have some real fun.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When he saw who this special guest was, his blood ran
cold. Brian Saunders and Steve Matthews, who easily towered over their newest
captive by a foot, dragged her in by her bare heels. Her hands were bound
behind her back with rope. She’d been gagged with what looked like a mouth full
of condoms, secured with clear tape. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The woman’s shirt was torn open, leaving her breasts
exposed. She wore nothing else but a pair of panties. They dumped the new
captive in front of him on her knees. She looked at him, her deep blue eyes
filled with horror. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I believe you know this slut?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Let her go! She has nothing to do with this!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“On the contrary, she has everything to do with it. Don’t
you want your best friend and whore here with you to keep you company and watch
while we play with you? Hell, if she plays nice, she can join in and become our
plaything as well!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No! You let Martina go now!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Nope, we’re going to keep her. Besides, she looks like
she’ll be fun.” Daniel slipped his gun into her underwear and caressed her
sensitive flesh with the barrel. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Mmm, you like that, don’t you whore? The slick, cold
surface feels good against your pussy, doesn’t it? But if you hang on just a
tiny bit, you can have five hard cocks up your pussy making you feel good, okay
baby?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron watched as his best friend struggled against her
restraints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she managed to elbow
him in the groin, Daniel grabbed her by the hair and held her tightly against
his crotch. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel pushed the gun into her. “Do that again, slut, and
I’ll make sure you have no pussy for any man to fuck. Trust me, bitch, you
don’t know what it feels like to have a bullet up your cunt!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel whipped his gun out of her sex and carelessly
threw her at him. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Catch, Mr. Hollywood!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina, like him, had lost weight since high school and
now was slight, but her weight still knocked him down with a thud. She couldn’t
speak and she couldn’t touch him, but she snuggled into him. He felt her tears
on his neck. Aaron wrapped his arms around her waist and held her to him,
feeling the warmth of her body on his skin. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Shh Marty,” he soothed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Please don’t cry, my love. I promise we will find a way out of this.
I’m just so sorry you were caught up in my mess. I love you so much.” She drew
her body closer to him, pressing her chest into his as if she wanted to connect
their hearts. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aww, isn’t this a lovely reunion? I knew you had the
hots for this one, and she turned out to be quite the supermodel. We will have
fun with her later, but for now, you’re up first.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel
had Kieran and Steve drag him towards a chair. Aaron fought with whatever
strength he had left but Kieran and Steve quickly overpowered him, strapping
his chest, legs and arms to the chair. Kieran gripped Aaron’s jaw and forced it
open while Daniel poured ice cold water down his throat, choking Aaron. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron
gasped for air, desperate to breathe as his captors unmercifully kept pouring
water down his throat. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Stop!
That’s enough. Now tell me, how does it feel to have your breath took from
you?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“G-go t
to hell!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Tsk,
tsk. Haven’t you heard, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mr. Hollywood, </i>that
rage causes premature wrinkles? So I’d calm down if you don’t want to ruin your
pretty boy looks.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel
circled Aaron twice before stopping and leaning in close to him. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You
know what sickens me, Brooks? No matter how much weight you lost or how much
plastic surgery you had, you’re still an ugly son of bitch, but you believe
otherwise. You refuse to believe the truth. So, I’m going to do everything I
can to help you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel
caressed Aaron’s face before squeezing his jaw and applying a stun gun to his
chest. A thousand electric bolts of pain seized Aaron’s body. Aaron’s body
jerked until he saw black. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He was
jarred awake with the feeling of wet, bitter cold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Wakey,
wakey, lard ass, or you’re going to miss the show.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron
stared up at Brian who unstrapped him from the chair and pushed him onto a
mattress next to Martina. His heart ached to see his best friend looking so
helpless. She lay on her side, hogtied and unable to move. Aaron was eager to
touch Martina, but Brian had handcuffed his hands behind his back. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Martina,
I’m still here with you, hang onto that, okay?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She
nodded her understanding before Steve untied Martina’s legs and ripped her off
the floor.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Come
on princess, time to make that pussy purr.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron
turned away, unable to watch what was going to come next, but Daniel forced his
face to the front. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Now watch! Consider it free porn. Something tells me
that your little nerd can fuck like a porn star.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron watched as Daniel and his team reached for her, but
before any of them could rip her shirt off, Daniel stopped them. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, I have a better idea. Let our fairy fuck undress his
mistress, and let him fuck her first.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Boss that’s an excellent idea.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">They dragged her to her knees in front of Aaron. “Go
ahead, Brooks, take off her clothes, and then have your way with her,” Daniel
commanded. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, I won’t rape her!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You won’t be raping her, dummy. She is a very willing
partner, aren’t you, sweetheart?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina nodded her head in agreement, making Aaron even
more helpless. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“See? Now do it!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Steve un-cuffed Aaron and he pulled the novelist closer
to him. “I’m so sorry, Marty, please forgive me,” he whispered. He gently slid
her blouse off her shoulders and pushed her panties off her legs. He reached up
to remove the tape and gag, when Daniel hit his fingers hard with a nightstick.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Jesus!” he yelled, he rubbed his throbbing fingers.
“Please, let me remove her gag, I want to kiss her.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You can fuck her without kissing her.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, I can’t. I don’t know how you bastards fuck, but I
can’t get a hard on and fuck a woman without us kissing.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Sorry, dick, no can do. You’ve to find another way to
get a boner.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron sighed at losing his chance to give a tiny speck of
comfort to his friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had no other
choice but to do this. He pulled her tight and whispered in her ear. Before he
could say anything to Martina, Brian Saunders interrupted with an idea, giving
them that speck of comfort after all.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Hey Lieutenant, how about we untie the bitch’s hands
instead? That way lard-ass can get a boner.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t know, Sailor, I don’t want to do them any
favours.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I understand, sir, but it would make the play more
tantalizing.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Okay, Kieran, untie the bitch.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Once her hands were free, Aaron pulled Martina into his
arms and whispered, “Listen to me very carefully. I know this is very
terrifying for you, and very degrading to have to have sex with me, especially
with these monsters watching.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He rubbed her wrists and kissed her neck. “Nevertheless,
please, will you do me a favour? Pretend that you and I are all alone and we’re
at our favourite place, that private little meadow inside of Central Park that
we used to go to every Saturday and talk.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron caressed her face and pushed her hair out of her
eyes, kissing her on the forehead. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Did you find me
attractive, I mean before the beatings? Like I was on the show and in those
magazines?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina’s gaze never left Aaron’s. She reached up and
caressed his face, and nodded in agreement. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Good, because you’re beautiful. So, close your eyes and
picture us in our special place, as we were before we were kidnapped and
beaten, making love under the moonlight. I promise I’ll be gentle. Can you do
this for me?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina reached out and grasped his hands. She placed his
right hand on her left breast, and his left hand near the apex of her thighs. A
low moan vibrated between Aaron’s lips as removed his hands to pull his friend
onto his lap. Aaron found it strange not to be able to kiss Martina on the
mouth, but adjusted by raining soft kisses on her still-closed eyelids and
face. He caressed her tangled, dirty auburn hair. His lips found and caressed
every inch of her silken flesh, suckling her nipples. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron felt Martina relax under his touch. Aaron knew by
her body language that she transported herself, as he did, to that meadow and
was enjoying the experience of their lovemaking. She used her hands in kind, as
she was not able to use her mouth to pleasure him as well. When he felt her
frustrations wash over him, he calmed her by telling her to pleasure him with
her fingertips, because that’s all he needed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">This worked for a moment. Then they heard Daniel growl,
“Oh come on you pussy, fuck her already. We want to see animalistic fucking,
not a Sunday School play. Do it, or we’ll show you how it’s done.” She tensed
and began to pull away. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron ignored Daniel’s aggression and guided his lover
back to their peaceful fantasy. “That’s it, my love, and concentrate on me,
only me.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron pushed his fingers into her slick entry and thrust
in and out gently. A muffled moan vibrated from behind Martina’s gag. The more
he thrust, the more she became wet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sensing their captors’ impatience, he thrust his arousal deep inside of
her instead. Another muffled moan told him he was on the right track. Martina
arched her back, wrapped her legs around Aaron’s waist, and caressed his face.
Martina’s eyes never left her lover’s. Her hand continued down his entire
length, tracing the fine lines of his sculpted form with her fingertips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron increased his momentum and when he felt the
beginning of pleasurable desire mounting; he flipped her over onto her stomach
and pushed her onto her legs. Aaron wished that he were alone with Martina, so
he could savour the sight of her firm, plump behind, and caress her smooth skin
before he thrust his length into her depths. However, he didn’t have that
luxury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">His thrusts were less urgent. He wanted her to feel the
full impact of their coupling. Aaron found her g-spot and grabbed onto it,
thrusting faster and faster, until their orgasms tore through them like a
lightning bolt. Her heat spasmed all around him and her screams vibrated from
behind her gag. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron wanted to savour the moment, but all too cruelly,
Daniel tore her away from him and pushed her onto the floor. “It’s about time.
You fuck like a girl, lard-ass. Now, come here, baby, and let us show you how a
man fucks. We’re going to make the eyes roll back in your head.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Just in case you’re thinking of saving her or doing
something foolish like that, we’re going to cuff you to this beam, lover boy.”
Daniel sauntered over to the group.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel
had already had her on her knees and had slammed his arousal into her tiny
orifice. He thrust violently, his grip tight around her hair, the other meaty hand
firmly on her hip to keep her from shifting on the floor. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">While he was pounding against her pelvis, Brian was
underneath her, forcing her to ride him as he slammed his cock deep inside of
her. Meanwhile, Steve and Kieran watched, anxious for their turn. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It was too much for Aaron to watch, but he forced himself
to bear witness. If they got out of here, Daniel and his band of depraved
bastards were going to pay. She may not have been able to speak, but fat tears
flowed down her red cheeks as they continued to violate her. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When Daniel and Brian were done, Steve and Kieran took
their places. “Can I remove her gag, boss? I want that little mouth on my
Johnson. I want her to blow me while I fuck her mouth,” Kieran asked.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, I want the bitch quiet. You’ll have to find another
way of getting your rocks off. Do what I did. Her ass is nice and wide now.”
Daniel wiped the mixture of blood and juices of his flaccid member and got
dressed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Kieran didn’t enter her ass right away; he plunged three
fingers into her and pumped them in and out. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Wow, you’re a slut. You’re ripe
and ready for my Johnson, aren’t you?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">With those words, Kieran unmercifully slammed his
extra-large member into her tender and broken anus. He wildly pounded and
grinded his pelvis against her until he pulled out and showered her back and
hair with his juices. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Ahh, now that’s the stuff, lass! You’re one good fuck.
Steve, how are you coming along?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Steve gave his thumbs up as his continued to assault
Martina’s pussy, his languid tongue stopping whenever she came close to orgasm
and then starting again. He tortured her by denying her relief over and over
again. Finally, when she reached her peak one more time, he bit down on her
inner folds hard, drawing blood. As he peaked from his masturbation, he sprayed
the hot seed into her bleeding wound. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She howled behind her gag, nearly choking herself. Aaron
struggled against his restraints.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You sick motherfucker, why did you do that?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Calm down, lard-ass, we’re done playing with the two of
you for tonight. Don’t worry; we have more in store for you tomorrow,” Daniel
threatened. “Steve, take that that tape off and those French safes out of her
mouth. The whore has earned her breath back.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Unceremoniously, Steve ripped the tape off her face and
pulled the bundle of condoms from her throat. He dropped her to the ground. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Brian let Aaron out of his handcuffs. “There you go,
lard-ass, go to your whore. We’ll leave you alone. See you in the morning.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“By the way,” Brian continued, “the boss left you and the
slut some food and water. There is a bathroom down the hall with a shower and
some towels, so you guys can pretty up for the next round.” Letting loose a
cackle, Brian followed behind his friends and slammed the door behind them. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina coughed and gasped for breath, her vision blurry
with her tears of humiliation and agony. When she saw Aaron, she fell into his
arms and wept. Aaron had once again gone numb, but he knew that Martina was in
too much agony to move. “I know you can’t walk, but we need to get to the
bathroom to clean up and mend what we can. I need to stop your bleeding.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What about you, Aaron?” she whispered, her throat too
raw to speak. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’ll be okay. Let’s clean up and see if there is a first
aid kit. I think I might have some broken ribs, so I won’t be able to carry
you.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Slowly and carefully, Aaron and Martina helped each other
to their feet and they limped to the bathroom. Inside the tiny room, there was
a toilet, a small shower, and a sink. To their relief, there was also a first
aid kit with bandages, antibiotic cream, and scissors.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“It’s not much, but better than nothing. I guess the
janitor doesn’t keep an eye on the supply. Come on, let’s shower first.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron helped Martina into the shower and stepped in
behind her. “I hope you don’t mind, but I think we need to be in here together
to help each other out. I hope you’re not shy.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron’s attempt at humour put a smile on his friend’s
badly bruised and lacerated face. As the warm water fell upon their broken
flesh, it felt soothing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You know I had fantasies about showering with you. I
just wish it was under better circumstances.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Martina turned around to face Aaron and gave him a warm smile before
pressing her lips to his. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Mmm, so that’s what it’s like to kiss you. I love it, Aaron.
Thank you for making me forget that I was in hell as you were making love to
me. I never felt so loved, or so much joy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I love you, Martina and I’d do anything, give anything
if you were not dragged into this. I’d never hurt you, no matter what they say
or do.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know Aaron, I trust you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m so sorry for not stopping them.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina caressed Aaron’s face, stroking his features
lovingly. “It’s not your fault. Daniel told me the reason why they kidnapped
me.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “If I’d never
slept with his wife, neither one of us would be in this nightmare.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “You didn’t know
she was married. Far as you knew, she was a beautiful single woman who needed
the comfort of your caring and gentle arms. In truth, can’t say that I blame
her. I would have jumped into bed with you too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“At least you’d have a bed to fall into.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Well, they’re gone now; and I know it’s not ideal, but
you can hold me while we sleep. Later, when we make it out of here, take me to
your place and make love to me all night.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That would be beautiful. Something to hang on to until
this is over and we make it out of this alive.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron pressed his lips to hers and held her tight. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I missed you so much, Aaron, I always regretted not
staying in touch after college, but…” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know, and I’m to blame. I just became so distraught
from the senseless murder of my parents that I became lost in myself. It took
my love for acting for me to find myself again.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“We’re together now, and in this moment, that’s all that
matters.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina cuddled up closer to Aaron as he pulled an old
blanket over their naked bodies. Before Martina drifted off to sleep, she
murmured, “Oh by the way, Aaron?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, my love?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know that you’re in love with me, today proved that,
but I want you to know that I’m in love with you too.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lost and Found <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Too soon the harsh daylight burst into the room, bringing
the beasts with it, thirsty for more vengeance. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Well, well, look what the headlines of this rag is
trumpeting this morning!” Daniel announced as he threw a paper on the floor
where Aaron’s head lay. Wiping the sleep from eyes, Aaron stared down at the
headlines of the Los Angeles Gazette. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">BELOVED TV ACTOR AND ADORED NOVELIST GO MISSING </span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron Brooks, star of the highly successful vampire drama, </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Let
There Be Blood<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> and adored YA author,
Martina Murphy, were reported missing last evening. </i></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron Brooks, 30, was reported missing by James Bishop, Executive
Producer of the popular PT network show, when Mr. Brooks did not report to an
early morning cast meeting and all attempts to locate the actor failed. </span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina Murphy, 30, was also reported missing by her roommate when Ms.
Murphy did not return from a date the night before. </span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The investigators state that Brooks was last seen by attendee of the
charity Halloween party of the </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Let There Be Blood<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> cast members held at the Shield Foster hotel last evening. </i></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Murphy was last seen exiting the Bella Donna restaurant at approximately
11pm with a gentlemen a witness described as a tall, muscular man wearing a
t-shirt, jeans and hiking boots. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">A sketch composite of a familiar face was printed,
alongside a line asking anyone who knew the man to contact the police to answer
some questions. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You kidnapped her from the restaurant? How fucking bold
are you?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, you dumbass, I was on a date with her.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Martina, is this true?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina hung her head with shame. “Yes, it’s true. Daniel
is a neighbour with my editor, and she thought that he would be my perfect
match and set us up on a blind date. I recognized him as soon as the hostess
brought me to our table.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You didn’t exactly run when you recognized me, babe.
Apparently you’ve weren’t as bothered by the things I used to do to you in high
school as you said. I think you rather liked it.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, I was terrified of you. Seeing you again brought
back all those horrible memories of being bullied by you and your gang.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Then why didn’t you turn tail and run?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I didn’t run because I went against my better judgment
and stayed to give you the benefit of the doubt. After all it had been 13 years
since we graduated high school, and you were now an adult and mature. I never
dreamed you’d do this.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel caressed Martina’s cheek and ran his fingers
through her tangled hair. “I told you that this was nothing personal. I got out
all my aggressions towards you in high school. You are just a torture tool for
my true target.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Then she has served her purpose. I’m suffering. Please
let her go home.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel responded by giving Aaron a quick kick to the gut.
“That’s where you’re wrong. We’re far from done.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron couldn’t imagine what Daniel had in store for him
next. Daniel instructed Brian and Steve to hold the weakened actor in place.
“We’re going to play a game of die or not to die.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Pulling a gun out of his side hostler, Daniel set to work
by placing a bullet in the chamber and pressing the barrel to his chest. “You
see, Brooks, I’m a gambling man. I get my thrills by running with the risks.
Living life to its fullest by fucking with the grim reaper. Today is your lucky
day, because it’s your turn to fuck with the bastard.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron’s heart raced . With each click of the chamber, he
could die. Three agonizing clicks later, Aaron closed his eyes as he braced for
death. But then he heard a chorus of laughter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Open your eyes, you pussy, I’m not going to kill you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yet.”<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron took a deep breath. Feeling weak with relief, Aaron
almost fell to his knees but Brian and Steve caught him. “Would ya look at
that, boss? The morning’s just begun, but already the pussy’s falling down!”
Kieran held Martina tight to him, his left hand over her mouth, while the right
fondled her breasts. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Try to hang in there, Brooks. You’ll sleep plenty when
we’re done.” Daniel didn’t waste any time with his torture and assaults on
Aaron while Martina watched helplessly. They beat Aaron, cut him with knives,
and poured ice cold water over him as he hung from the ceiling. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">For seven days, Daniel and his men took pleasure in the
variety of ways they made Aaron and Martina suffer. Though whipping and beating
seemed to be their preferred method, great enjoyment was derived from sleep
deprivation, denying them food and water, and standing for long periods of time
with their arms handcuffed to a beam. Daniel even covered Aaron’s face with a
pair of Daniel’s dead wife’s underwear as he stood, helpless. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">As brutal as all the tortures were, Daniel saved the best
for last. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You’ll
be happy to note that today is the last day you see us. We’re done here. So, in
celebration of our departure, we saved the best for last.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aaron was so weak form his ordeal that he
couldn’t protest as Kieran and Brian threw him in a dark room and locked the
door. The darkness was strangely peaceful after the endless time spent suffering,
so Aaron closed his eyes and willed himself to sleep. Sleep wouldn’t come,
however, because no matter how exhausted his body was, his mind was with
Martina, who would face unknown horrors outside his door. He attempted to move
his bound limbs in attempt to escape, but they were useless, instead Aaron
slumped to the floor, defeated. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Outside
he heard the muffled sounds of something being dragged across the floor,
followed by Martina’s horrific screams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They echoed in his ears forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel
and his gang left the two them behind and near death. It was by the grace of a
higher power that Aaron and Martina were found and hospitalized. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">However, while Martina’s memory of their ordeal was wiped
clean by the trauma, Aaron was forced to live the nightmare. It was only Avery
who knew the truth about what happened. He fended off the press eased him back
into the show. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He continued to try to contact Martina, but she’d left
town. He was glad. That night had left him with a monster inside. He longed to
make someone else go through what he’d suffered. It seemed like the only way to
make the nightmare go away. Sometimes, it receded, and he realised what he was
doing to his loved ones. Still, he couldn’t let go. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The monster was just too strong. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Katrina’s Banishment<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina’s reoccurring nightmare of four men with bulging
muscles and lust burning in their dark eyes always made her wake up in a cold
sweat. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Each night, the surroundings in her dreams was clear. It
was the basement of her old high school, the place of many torturous
humiliations for her and Aaron. The faces of her rapists were clear as well.
They were the same four bullies that committed those acts, but the face of the
other victim that remained blurry. Tonight, however, after falling into a
peaceful sleep in her husband’s arms, the images of her nightmare became clear.
It was Aaron after all.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her husband had always made sacrifices for her, proving
continuously how much he loved her. How had he become such a monster?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery was dressing for bed, Martina’s image still burned
in his subconscious from the week prior. The taste of her sweetness still
lingered on his tongue. He couldn’t get her out of his mind, and longed to
finish what he started.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He slipped under the covers, and thought about her. Avery
slid his hand underneath the silk barrier of his boxers and stroked his cock.
Her image played in his mind. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her long auburn waves cascaded down her back, stopping
just short of her firm ass; deep blue pools filled with ecstasy as his tongue
danced inside her slick lips. He imagined her long lean legs lying across his
shoulders, her velvet skin quivering beneath his fingers. He longed to press
his lips to her lush red mouth and capture her cry of release.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The electric sensations began to build, and he could feel
the pressure of sweet release just moments away when he felt a slight tug on
his cockhead. The actor’s eyes snapped open to find his member inside Aaron’s
mouth. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron, stop!” Avery ordered. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">His captor didn’t obey. Instead, Aaron continued to use
his tongue to tease Avery’s shaft, his mouth descending over his rod.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery’s head fell back, he groaned, and his eyes
fluttered closed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron…Jesus, oh…” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery lost track of what he was trying to say and rubbed
his friend’s shoulders. He tried to stay still, but his hips flexed on their
own accord along with Aaron’s movements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another groan escaped his lips as he felt himself building again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron…Fuck! I’m going…” Avery tangled his fingers in
Aaron’s hair and pulled him closer, daring Aaron to accept his seed. He pushed
Aaron’s head away with a surge of willpower. “I’ll not fuck you again, Aaron.
What happened here means nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Certainly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sounded </i>and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">felt </i>like something, Avery. That
wasn’t air I licked off my face.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Stop being condescending, you jerkoff. I just don’t want
that blow job to turn into a repeat of that night on your veranda.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You feel no need to return the favour?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No,</i> now
please, leave.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You may not want to fuck me again, my friend, but you
want to fuck my wife until she screams. It was her image you were jacking off
to.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“How could you know that, Aaron?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m not stupid, I felt the lust coming off you when you
saw me tongue fucking Martina. With that being said, I’m here to tell you, that
you and I have a new toy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“A new toy?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, you see, Katrina is now off limits. My darling
daughter’s pussy has now been declared a no-fuck zone. Therefore, that leaves
my stunning wife to play with. What do you say? You want the first round?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery was appalled at what he was hearing. He could fully
admit that he’d fantasies of making love to Martina, but he didn’t want to use
her as a shared human sex toy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron, I don’t know how you can offer me such a thing.
You’re offering up your beautiful wife as a sex toy for us to share? That’s
immoral, and I’m having no part of it.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That’s what you said before Katrina slid her juicy cunt
down your cock and rode it until you spilled your seed in her young womb. As
you remember, you enjoyed that quite well. Just think how it will feel to have
a woman with real experience to fuck.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Disgusted, Avery avoided eye contact and pointed to the
door. “Get out, Aaron! I’ll no longer be forced to play in your sadistic game.
I may be forced to stay here, but you can’t make me do such vile things.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron gave Avery a long, slow smile. “Very well, Avery.
I’ll no longer force you to do what you don’t want to do. In fact, I was
thinking of letting you go first thing in the morning; provided you keep your
mouth shut.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t believe you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Believe what you want, but if you not willing to play my
game, you’re no longer any use to me. Katrina is no longer any use to me. So, I
decided to let the both of you go, and my wife and I’ll go on living here.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery stared at his captor, skeptical. “You’re telling
me, that after all this time, all the torture you’ve put us through, you’re
just going to let me and Katrina go?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“If you keep your mouths shut, yes.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I…don’t…”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Think about it for tonight, have a nice peaceful sleep.
By the time the sun streams through that window, you will be able to leave this
room. Good night, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lover</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When Aaron closed the door behind him, he left Avery
sitting on the bed feeling dazed and confused. This was strange turn of events.
The promise of freedom was too good to be true. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron had been patient with his captives, allowing them
freedoms beyond they deserved. Now that Avery took a stand, Aaron had found
himself in a position to do something he didn’t want to do. He would have to
trick Avery and Martina. First, he’d to get rid of Katrina. It was time to tell
her the truth and introduce her to reality. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Lance, please! Don’t make me go, I don’t want to leave!”
Katrina begged.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She was on her knees. Aaron bent down and pulled her into
his lap. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Kitten, I don’t mean to send you away, but you need to
go to a special home now. I’m going to bring you personally in the morning, and
you’re going to get all the care you need.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Lance, you said that you were going to turn me into a
vampire and you said that I could stay with you forever and…” Katrina rambled
and snuggled into his neck. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron stroked her hair and kissed her forehead. “Kitten,
listen to me. I can’t turn you into a vampire because I don’t have the power to
do so. I’m not a vampire.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Katrina pulled away from him and stared at him confused.
“Yes you are, Lance.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Kitten…Katrina, my name is not Lance, it’s Aaron. I’m
your father because I adopted you, but I’m not a vampire, I’m <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, you are! I’ve seen you on TV when you were in
transition, and when you drank that girl’s blood and changed. I’ve seen you
feed on humans for years now, how could you lie and say that you’re not a
vampire?” She cried into her hands, hiding her tears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron reached up and pulled her hands away from her face.
“Katrina, you’re suffering from delusions, but none of it’s real, it’s just a
show. We’re all actors playing parts.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t understand. I’m so confused.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That’s why I’m bringing you to a special place that will
help you so you will stop being confused.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Does Mom know that I’m going?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, and I’m going to get her, so the three of us can
have a special night to spend as a family.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m going to miss you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Your mother and I’ll miss you, too, Kitten. Now, please
go and get your mother.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Once Katrina was out of the room, Aaron picked up his
phone and dialed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“It’s done. Now we can move on to plan B.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> The woman closed
her cell phone, smiled and tenderly touched the likeness of her favorite actor,
her love, Aaron. “It now begins, my love. I will carry out your instructions to
the letter and then, we can be together forever.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Once all obstacles were out of the way and she had done
her part, Aaron promised her a lifetime of happiness. A glamorous life of
parties, luxury and prestige. A life far from mundane life she led and the tiny
dark room she lived in. Taking a quick look at her watch, she grabbed her car
keys and rushed out the door, there was much left to do.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Darkness <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">With each breath his tried to take, something cold
paralysed his vocal chords. He waved his arms around, kicked his legs, and
tried to get free, but found that he couldn’t move. Then hot, burning pain made
his eyes snap open. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery looked around and saw nothing but darkness. He
tried to move again, but met resistance. Another icy splash pierced his skin.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Ahh, Fuck!” he yelled. His scream echoed in the empty
room. Avery swallowed. His throat felt raw, and his mouth felt like it was
filled with cotton. He laid his throbbing head against something cold and hard.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Oh no, the fucker got me tied up in that fucking cell,
again!” Avery cursed aloud to himself. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The actor closed his eyes in despair, all hope of his
promised freedom shattered. Suddenly, a bright, blinding light penetrated his
eyelids, making bolts of pain slam into his brain. On reflex, Avery raised his
hand to shield his eyes from the blinding light, but he couldn’t. They refused
to move. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I see that Sleeping Beauty has finally awoken. Tell me,
lover, how do you like your new accommodations?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">As his eyesight painfully adjusted to the brightness,
Avery’s saw slime-covered brick walls. His legs and arms were tied to a grey,
mold infested floor. As he painfully raised his head, he saw the starless night
sky shrouded in fog. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Where am I?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You said you wanted to breathe the fresh air and once
again smell the intoxicating scent of the outdoors. So, I drugged you, carried
you out to the backyard, and dropped you into a well.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You have me tied up in a well? Why? What happened to
your promise of freedom?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I still kept my promise.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You didn’t, you bastard! You drugged me and threw me
down a well and restrained me!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No. As you recall, I said that as soon as the light
streams through the window, you will be able to leave the room. As you can see,
you’re no longer in your room.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You’re a fucking demon! You’re demented! Once I find my
way out of here, you’re dead!” Avery struggled against his restraints to lunge
at Aaron. Another shower of freezing water cut through his skin. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’ll be careful with your attempts to break out of your
restraints, lover, because every time you struggle, the more you’re going to
get showered with freezing water from the underground pipe over your head.
Though that’s not the only surprise I have in store.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m afraid to ask.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Look down, Avery, and see the fun accessory to your au
natural wardrobe.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery followed Aaron’s gaze and saw a leather collar
fastened to his neck.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“It’s a leather collar, so what’s the big deal?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“This is no ordinary collar. This collar will send a volt
of electricity through your body, making it a very painful reminder that you’re
not getting out of here until I decide.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Now I know you’re crazy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Don’t believe me? Okay, let’s do a test to prove it.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron grasped Avery’s hands and violently pulled him
forward. Instantly a jolt of electricity shot through him burning his flesh. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Ahhh, fuck! That burns!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron stood up and dropped his captive back onto the
floor before sitting astride him and bringing his face close. “Now that you
know I’m not lying, I’ll leave you to think about how you’re going to get into
my good graces so I’ll consider letting you out. Until later.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Once Aaron climbed the ladder and stepped out into the
night, Aaron let out a primal scream. Another shock of electricity surged
through him and knocked him out cold. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron loved writing in a journal; he’d been writing since
he was a lonely, bullied teen. He kept a trunk full of journals in the back of
his closet and went to them whenever he felt he was losing control, to remind
him of just how far he’d come. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Right now, however, he was writing a new entry in a
journal documenting the days of hell. The life he was forced to live because of
another powerful influence. As he wrote the final sentence, the dark force told
him it was time to retrieve his subject to see if the days of careful rewiring
worked. First, he needed to pay a visit to his other experiment. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It had rained the previous day, so the ladder was
slippery. Stepping lightly, Aaron descended down the metal steps and through
the darkness until he found Avery. Shining his flashlight on his captive, Aaron
saw that his friend was asleep. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery lay perfectly still, his thin, naked physique
covered with dirt. He looked like he was barely breathing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron reached down and ran his fingers through his
captive’s mud-soiled hair. It had been seven days since he left him down there.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Wake up, Avery. Wake up! It’s time to see if you’re
ready to get out of this hole and start feeling like a human.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery moaned as Aaron continued to probe him until
finally, he opened his eyes and turned his head to face Aaron. “What do you
want?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron knew that Avery was so weak from the lack of food
that he wouldn’t be able to speak too much.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m here to see if you want to get out of this hole and
come back to the land of the living.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery turned his head away and closed his eyes. “You know
I do,” he mumbled. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Then, all you have to do is to tell me how you’re going
to influence me into getting you out.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Bring. Me. To. Our new toy,” Avery stammered, between
ragged breaths. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Now, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron removed Avery’s collar and chains, and pulled Avery
to his feet. “I know you’re weak, but you’re going to have to dig deep to find
enough strength to get out of here and back into the house. I’ll help you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery was easier to help up the ladder and back into the
house. Once he’d been cleaned up, watered, fed and given a few days to rest,
Avery will be good as new. Worthy enough to play with his toy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina stood in front of her husband and Avery, her head
buzzing with conflicting desires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stared at them
both, and couldn’t decide who looked more delicious. Avery, with his dark good
looks, piercing blue eyes and svelte physique, or Aaron, with his fair
complexion, lush flaxen hair, intense green eyes and chiseled body and
irresistible rose tattoo. They were hard to resist. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron had blindfolded them both and led them into the
dark, warm night. The warm breeze had caressed her bare flesh, tantalizing her
erogenous zones and preparing her for whatever delights her husband had in
store. When Aaron took their blindfolds off, Martina noticed that her husband
had led them to an open meadow. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She protested, afraid of who might come by while they
were performing acts best left kept for the bedroom. When Aaron explained that
it was a clearing located on their own grounds, she relaxed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Now here her playthings lay, on the grass. The full moon
bathed their bodies and prominent arousals, tempting her, daring her to
choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She felt light headed, happy,
and lustful. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Come on, baby, you have to choose which one of us you
want first,” her husband teased as he stroked his thick member. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, you will have to choose, Martina, and please, do it
soon.” Avery’s voice was deep and husky, and made her wet between her legs. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She stepped forward. The heels of her fuchsia ‘fuck me’
shoes sunk into the plush grass.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Martina looked
from one to the other. Her mouth watered, but she decided that she wanted to
take her time. She decided to play along and beat them at their game. Their
sultry toy raised her leg on to the edge and opened her legs just enough for
them to have a peek at her most intimate flesh. She danced her hand up her leg,
slow and deliberate, until she reached the apex of her inner thigh. She plunged
her fingers deep inside, thrusting them in and out. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina moaned and she heard Aaron and Avery suck in a
breath. She continued to thrust, leaving her lovers staring, transfixed. Soon,
her pussy was slick with her juices. Pulling her dripping fingers out, she
brought them to her mouth and sucked the honey sweetness while looking at them
with half-lidded eyes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Mmm…so you want me to choose?” She sashayed over to her
lovers, running her hands down their chests. “Thing is, boys, I can’t and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">won’t </i>choose between you. I want you
both to fuck me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at the same time.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina yelped with surprise. Avery was the first to
whisk her into his arms. He threw her down onto the ground and straddled her.
She couldn’t help but feel disappointment as her husband remained. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I said that I wanted the both of you at the same time,”
she demanded as she pulled her husband to her. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Okay, it looks like our toy wants to play with us. So,
how do you think we should handle this situation, Avery?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina stared up at Avery, offering him a lustful smile.
“Yes, Avery, how are you going to handle this?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I think that our toy has stepped out of bounds. Our toy
is here to pleasure <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina smiled seductively at her playmates. “Here I
thought we were playing for mutual pleasure.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her husband reached down and pulled his wife to him.
“Yes, but our pleasure will be your pleasure. Just wait. Now, are you going to
be a good girl and do what we say?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Perfect. Kneel before us and spread your legs enough for
us to see your pussy. Then arch your back until your hair touches your creamy
round ass. Close your eyes and part your lips.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina could feel Aaron’s and Avery’s burning stares.
She sensed her nipples being pinched as a smooth palm ran over her sensitized
peaks. Then the sensation of a warm, wet mouth suckling, until she groaned with
desire. Suddenly, Martina sensed something cool and wet shower over her body,
soothing her flaming skin. “Mmm, that feels wonderful! Are you pouring water
over me, lovers?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, my love. Your masters are not pouring water over
that fuckable body, it’s raining.” Avery pressed his lips to hers and licked
the raindrops from her navel.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Candy Angel, I need you to play with your pussy.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Obeying his command, Martina dipped her fingers into her
moistness and flicked lovingly over her clit as her other fingers thrust
rhythmically. Her desire coiled at the base of her stomach, her climax peaking
when Martina’s hand was gently removed from her sex. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She was pushed to her knees and her legs were spread
apart. She gasped the sensation of something long, hard and slippery deep
within her pussy. Something was warm and wet against her buttocks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Ahh! Mmm.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Open your eyes, my sweet Candy Angel.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina’s eyes fluttered opened to see her husband
seductively smile at her. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What are you doing?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“We’re playing with our toy. Why don’t you look down and
see what we’re doing for yourself?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina glanced down to see Avery slowly insert a large
white vibrator into her depths. Aaron flicked the tip of his tongue inside of
her puckered hole. Avery removed the vibrator and ordered Aaron to stop. He
grasped Martina by the waist and pulled her on top of him, slamming into her. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron proved to be gentler, as she barely felt the firm
pressure of his entry. She relaxed into the sting of the stretch. Martina’s
body accepted her second lover fully as he began to move. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She was so overcome that Martina was reduced to panting
mewls. Aaron grasped her hair and pulled her upright, with her back flush to
his muscled chest.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You love that, don’t you, whore? Do you love my cock in
that little hole of yours? Do you love Avery’s thick member filling you to the
hilt and making that pussy purr?” Aaron continued to assault her tiny hole. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery punished her pussy with each erotic stroke, making
it impossible for her to respond with more than, “Mmm…ah.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She sensed herself falling under the intensity of their
combined thrusts with the first hints of her orgasm. Her husband grasped her
around the waist, and held her tightly. Aaron’s strong hands travelled slowly
down her body, cupping her breasts and pinching her nipples until they were
rosebuds. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The captive’s breath caught as suddenly Avery took her
hard nipples between his teeth, alternating between suckling and biting, while
Aaron pounded furiously against her pelvis. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina was so overwhelmed by the multiple sensations,
she yelled, “A-ar-very!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Hear that, Avery? Our toy is so overwhelmed by our
fucking, that she combined our names!” Aaron teased.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina didn’t hear her other lover’s response. She felt
her orgasm vibrate through her, bowing her back with its intensity and shooting
electricity from her groin to her fingers and toes. The passion was not over
for her, however; her lovers thrust furiously until she felt their hot seed
flood her insides. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Martina watched as Avery pulled out of her and collapsed,
his carved physique glistening with sweat. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron kept his strong arm around her waist even as he
withdrew from her, biting a path down the curve of her neck to her rib cage,
then back up again. Aaron’s love bites didn’t hurt, only caused more surges of
pleasurable to shoot through her and made her wet with desire again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron, please…”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What’s it baby?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Please don’t torture me.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Would you call this torture?” Aaron breathed, as he
slipped three fingers into her soaking entry. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron, I… yes! You know what you do to me.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her husband was relentless. Aaron growled his lust into
her ear. He lifted her into his arms and cradled her to his chest before he
pushed her against the covers. Martina didn’t care that her other lover lay
watching as Aaron parted her legs and entered her, dripping heat with a
powerful thrust. He pounded hard and fast until he’d driven her to the edge of
euphoria, pushing her over. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">This time, Aaron didn’t flood her insides with his seed.
He bathed her stomach, breasts and mouth. It was only then that Aaron’s sexual
appetite was sated. He fell on the grass next to her and pulled his wife into
his arms. Avery pulled into their combined embrace. She fell asleep in the
safety of their arms, contented.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Escape <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron’s sexual appetite couldn’t be sated. Once again,
Martina and Avery no longer became willing partners, but slaves to their
captor’s sexual appetites and lewd tastes. One night, after Aaron carried his sleeping
wife to her room, he foolishly left behind his cell phone. Seizing the
opportunity, Avery grabbed it and dialed for help. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“911, what’s your emergency?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“My name is Avery Evers and I’m being held captive.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Do you know where, Mr. Evers?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery paused for a moment and tried to remember the sign
on the gate as Aaron took him back into the house after freeing him from the
well. His mind remained blank </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m sorry, I don’t remember.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That’s okay, sir, we can trace you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Okay.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Is there anyone else there with you?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, a woman, the novelist Martina Brooks. Please hurry.
I’m afraid that he’ll be back at any moment.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Help is on the way, sir. Do you know the name of your
kidnapper?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes, it’s Aaron Brooks.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bright white, red and blue lights flashed by Aaron’s
kitchen window. High-pitched wailing blasted his ears. He dropped the plate of
bread and cheese, and the bottle of wine he was taking up to Avery.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Son of a bitch.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Please come out with your hands behind your back!” a voice
boomed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron had come too far and had accomplished too much for
him to lie down and die for the pigs now. He was going to fight, or die trying.
No one was going to take his family away. He grabbed the nearest weapon, a six
inch butcher knife, and ran up the stairs, bursting into Avery’s bedroom. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You bastard! How could you sell me out like this? After
everything I gave you!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aaron pressed
the knife to his captive’s side.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You gave me nothing, you demented bastard! You’ve held
me here for God knows how long and tortured me! If you want to kill me for
trying to save my life, then go ahead, you coward. Keep in mind, though, that
this place is surrounded by cops, who wouldn’t hesitate to kill you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No stupid idiot with a badge is going to destroy what took
me a year to build. But if they are going to kill me, they are going to have to
kill you too!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron pulled Avery to him and pressed the blade to his
throat, turning his captive into a shield. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What about Martina?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Leave my wife out of this. I gave her a sleeping pill in
her wine before our threesome, and she is now sleeping peacefully. I needed her
to rest before I woke her up later. Now, get moving down those stairs!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Carefully, Aaron led Avery down the stairs and to the
front door and opened it enough to yell, “Don’t shoot! I have a hostage!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Mr. Brooks, there is no need to use Mr. Evers as a
shield. We’re not going to shoot you. We just want to talk,” the booming voice
assured. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“How stupid do you think I am? I know the second I let
Avery go, you won’t hesitate to kill me. That will make your lives a whole lot
easier. No charges, no trial, just a shit load of paperwork.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron took a deep breath to attempt to still his
heartbeat before continuing his tirade.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “No, if you want
this fucker, then you will have to come in here and get him yourselves. I’m not
making your fucking jobs easier, you lazy pigs.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron’s heart raced as a thousand thoughts speed through
his mind. He couldn’t think and he could barely react. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Aaron, what’s going on?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The sound of a gentle voice made the madman turn around;
with Avery still pressed to him. He saw Martina standing in the middle of the
stairs, wearing nothing but lace bra and panties. The moonlight bathed her in
its glow, enhancing her stunning beauty. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Martina, run!” Avery bellowed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron cursed under his breath as he pushed Avery to the
floor, slicing his neck as his fell. He chased after his wife.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Martina, please come back!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">His wife was fast, but Aaron caught her just before she
reached the back door. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Let me go!” she squealed, squirming in her husband’s
arms.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No! Please, my beauty, please! Don’t run away from me,
I’m not going to hurt you, I love you.” He held her close and nuzzled her neck,
pressing her near naked body to him. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, Aaron, if you loved me you’d have not put me through
this hell! So, please let me go!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron gathered his wife in his arms and laid her on the
bed, locking the door behind them. He paced the room, still holding the knife
that dripped with Avery’s blood, leaving a gory trail. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t know how this happened. I don’t know how I could
be so stupid as to leave my cell phone. My dreams, my hopes all up in smoke!”
Aaron ran his fingers through his hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Please, Aaron, give yourself up. It’s no use to keep
trying to hold the police off! They have this place surrounded, and if you
fight, I’m afraid they’ll kill you!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What in the fuck do you care? You want to leave me!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I don’t want to leave you, Aaron! I love you still,
despite all the horrible things you’ve done. You’re sick and you need help.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron stopped and studied his wife. Big tears fell down
her alabaster cheeks. She looked so beautiful, sitting there exposed and
vulnerable. Aaron wanted to give in and do as she asked. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">At that moment there was a loud crash, sounding like the
side of the house was being knocked down.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“They’re here, Aaron! Give yourself up!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It was like Aaron didn’t hear her. Taking a deep breath,
the captor placed his bloody knife down on the bureau, opened up the drawer and
handed Martina the long, white summer dress. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Please, take this and cover yourself. I don’t want those
pigs seeing your stunning body, meant for only my eyes.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron reached for Martina' hand but she hesitated. "Aaron, what
about the document you gave me? If the police get it, it will harm you in
court."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">"It can't hurt me if its in ashes. I
burnt it in the fireplace. Come on, we better go." </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Holding hands, Aaron and Martina barely made
it halfway downstairs when the SWAT team rushed at them. An officer ran and
whisked his wife away, while another threw him against the wall and handcuffed
his hands behind his back and dragged him downstairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron fought every step of the way, kicked with all his
might, spat and screamed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m not going to prison! I will die before I do!” Aaron
shouted to the heavens. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Shut up and get in the car.” The officer handling him
proceeded to push Aaron into the back of the police car. That’s when a shot
rang out, drowning out his wife’s screams. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Saviour<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery watched as Martina climbed the steps to the main
entrance of Cypress Grove Mental Health Treatment Center and wondered how she
could still be so devoted to a man who had committed so many horrific acts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Aaron was deeply
disturbed and was at the center to receive much-needed treatment. He had
pleaded no contest to the host of charges against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His former friend was arrested and kept in
protective custody as he recovered in hospital for a gunshot wound to his
shoulder. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Avery, stop stalling and get back to our game, and let
me finish whooping your butt!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery turned around and smiled at his chess opponent.
“I’ll not be so sure of that, Katrina! I think I’m pretty close to victory.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery smiled as Katrina flashed him an enormous smile. It
warmed his heart that Katrina was doing so well. In a rare moment of clarity,
Aaron had admitted his daughter to one of the best treatment facilities in the
country, where she’d been given excellent care and was well on her way to
recovery. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her flame-red hair bounced as she pushed the piece that
made her the winner of the match. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Checkmate! Told you, Avery.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery hugged Katrina and stood up to leave. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Going so soon?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I have to, Katrina. I’ve a lot of errands to run and
appointments to keep, but I’ll be back to see you on Thursday.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Okay, that sounds great! Thank you for coming to see me,
Avery.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“It’s always my pleasure, see you then, okay?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Bye! Oh, Avery?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Do you know when I’ll be able to see my Dad again? We
have so much to talk about.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know, but he is still very sick, and it’s only your
Mom that can visit for now. Besides, until he is well, you know it’s not a good
idea for you to see him. What he put you through is still very fresh, and your
doctors feel you might have a relapse.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I understand, but I wish they stop treating me like a
child. I remember every horrible thing that happened to me under my father’s
influence.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “I know. I’m sorry
you had to go through that.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Thank you,
Avery, but it wasn’t all bad. I also remember all the good things and the good
person that he was before he snapped. He suffered too, Avery. He and my Mom
suffered horribly at the hands of those deranged men.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Avery could see how Katrina struggled to keep her anger
over her parent’s ordeals in check, but she couldn’t keep the tears from her
eyes. Avery handed her a tissue to wipe away her tears of frustration. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Is it so wrong
for me to want to see him, to talk with him, and get everything out in the open
so we can heal?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“No, sweetheart, there is nothing wrong with that, it’s
only natural. I understand what you’re saying, but be patient, the time to see
him will come soon.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know. I’m just anxious.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I know. Listen, I’ve to go, but hang in there, okay.
I’ll see you on Thursday.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">After Avery said his final good-byes to Katrina, he left
with a heavy heart. Aaron’s daughter had a heart as big as her mother’s.
Problem was, he was afraid that Aaron was going to destroy them.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The cold and empty cavern of the labyrinth of the abandoned
warehouse swallowed the screams of the men in its bowels. Not that it mattered
how long they’d been there; God only knew how long, because they’d lost count
after a day or two, their screams worn away to whispers. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Four were Navy Seals bound together through a lifetime
friendship; the other two were college seniors, all buddies from childhood.
They were restrained by titanium chains, each man tethered to the ceiling,
their bare flesh numb to the cold and the pain of their torture. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the beginning, they fought for their lives and kept
each other from giving up that fight, but round after round of horrific,
nightmarish torture, they prayed for death. During this unknown time, each man
endured burnings to their flesh and genitals. They broke bones, body parts were
torn away, their skin was peeled, and they had to commit vile sexual acts on
each other and on their captors. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">They were raped nightly for hours on end, eager cocks and
imamate objects violating their mouths and anuses until they bled and begged
for mercy. They never knew the identity of their tormentors because they never
showed their faces and they rarely spoke. Their voices were concealed by a
young girls tone, making it disturbing and surreal. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">They were never without water or food, as their captors
kept them well fed and plump for ‘play time’. When either one of them refused
to accept the food, they would force it down their raw throats. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Weak and defeated, they heard the dreaded familiar beat
of footsteps towards them and then a bright light glaring straight at them,
assaulting their swollen eyes. As the light quickly faded away, it was replaced
but a softer one, one that was more manageable. Peering through half-lidded
eyes, the entire captive’s bleary vision focused on one face. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It was the face of a beautiful vision. A woman, her hair
concealed under a large floppy hat. She stared at them through designer
sunglasses, her bow-shaped mouth curved into a gentle smile. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Was she their saviour? They could only hope, but deep inside,
they knew better. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Daniel Richards glared at the bitch before him and
snarled. “You fucking whore! Why?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The vision marched up to the leader of the Navy Seal
group and stared up at him. “Really, you fucking pig? You’re wondering why I’m
doing this.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Of course, bitch,” Daniel responded. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Why I hired five of the most cunning, demonic,
psychopathic sexual predators in the world to find you, kidnap, torture and
fuck you in every way a human can? If you need to ask, then you really don’t
deserve to know. However, the reasons will become moot in a few minutes.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Daniel struggled
against his restraints, frustrated, and spat in her face. The woman simply took
out a handkerchief from her top pocket and wiped the offending spittle off her
delicate features, returning the favour with a sly smile. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Daniel. For a decorated war hero and
so-called disciplined leader, you sure can behave like a child. Lucky for you,
I’m in a good mood and will let that little tantrum slide.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“What in the fuck do you want with us? Tell me now, or I
swear to a higher power that when I get down from her, I’ll burn you, bitch!”
Daniel snarled. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Really? That sounds like fun! Robin, could you come here
please?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She never took her eyes off her captives. A tall, wiry,
imposing figure sauntered to her side out of nowhere. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Yes?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I need each of your men to release the prisoners and set
them free.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Of course.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Then execute Plan 357.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have to leave. I’ve wired the rest of your compensation to each of
your accounts, and you will find your plane tickets to a destination of your
choice on the table over there. Do I have your word that neither you nor your
men will speak of this incident?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Consider all that you’ve instructed, done.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Good, it was a pleasure to work with you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“As it was with you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The mysterious woman sashayed over to Daniel. “It has
been a real pleasure, Daniel. Enjoy your freedom!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“You, fucking, fucking whore! We’re going to fuck you
until you bleed and then set you on fire!” Daniel struggled with his restraints,
lunging at the bitch who ordered his torment. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Suddenly, Robin’s beefy hand snaked around his throat.
“I’d watch my threats if I were you, devil!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’d listen to the big man, Danny, or he just might tear
the throat out of you. So, stay still while I do this.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Firmly grasping Daniel’s balls and cock, she produced a
long serrated blade from her top pocket and drew it across her victim’s
genitals. She dropped them to the floor as she walked away, leaving Daniel
screaming in agony. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Holy shit, will you look at that!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron was jolted out of his intense journal writing by
the booming voice of Dick Larson, the head orderly of Cypress Grove Mental
Health Treatment Centre. He walked out into the hallway to join the other
curious onlookers. The crowd had formed around Dick as he peered up at the TV
of the multi-purpose room, pointing. “That’s some crazy shit there!” he
exclaimed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Channel 5 news anchor with over-bleached blond hair
and too much makeup stared seriously into the camera while a clip of a fire
loomed behind her. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Los Angeles
fire Department are working hard to contain the blaze that has claimed the life
of ten men, whose identities are unknown at this time. The fire chief has
stated that the fire at the abandoned Smith Johnston textile warehouse was
caused by faulty wiring. Chloe Wesley, CFC News.”<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Stunned, Aaron slipped from the crowd and returned to his
room. It was over, finally over! He silently rejoiced. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">A few weeks prior, he’d received an ordinary looking
package in the mail. He found a tiny slit in the back cover of an innocuous
novel. In it, a letter in a woman’s handwriting explained that she’d found and
kidnapped the six individuals that had caused him and his family pain. She said
they were facing justice. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">She provided photos of the Smith Johnston warehouse and
pictures of the six men. The four that tormented and tortured him and Martina
on Halloween night, and the two men who viciously attacked Katrina. The woman
detailed the torture she was inflicting on the captives, and when she was going
to make them pay the ultimate price. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Last night was the night. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The former actor was decided to calm down by going for a
walk in the backyard. He went in search of his caregiver when unexpectedly, an
arm shot out from the stairwell and grabbed him. Aaron didn’t have a chance to
fight back. He felt an intense pain in the back of his head before passing out.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When he awoke some time later, he discovered that he was
in a car. Though he had bleary vision, Aaron sensed that they were speeding. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">He slowly sat up and cringed as a sharp pain raced
through his head; as Aaron’s vision cleared, he saw that he was in the front
seat, and the car was racing down the highway.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">A sudden foul smell assaulted his senses and he looked
around, searching for the source. Turning around, he saw two dead bodies. One
male and one female stared at him blankly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He stared at them. Strangely, the male was dressed exactly like him; a
white sleeveless t-shirt, hip-hugging dark blue jeans, and black motorcycle
boots. The corpse’s hair was even styled like Aaron’s. The female was an exact
replica of the driver.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Jesus!” he yelled in surprise. A woman in a big floppy
hat looked at him with designer sunglasses and smiled. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Relax, lover, you’re going to be just fine.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Who in hell are you?” The inched further to the door,
clutching the door handle. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“I’m your saviour, gorgeous. Therefore, I’d remove my
hand from that door handle if I were you. Don’t want the asphalt tearing up
those breathtaking looks and stunning body, do we?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron was too stunned to respond. He held on to his seat,
his fingers digging into the leather as the driver sped up down the deserted
highway. He’d never truly prayed in his life, but the faster she went, he found
himself reciting the Lord’s Prayer repeatedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aaron held his breath until he saw it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It was an eighteen wheeler, stalled in the middle of this
otherwise deserted road, and the crazy bitch was heading right for it! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The only thing he could do was to brace for impact. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bright sunlight burned through his eyelids, and an
incredible aching made Aaron open his eyes. He saw nothing but bright blue sky.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Was he alive? This couldn’t be possible, there was no way
in God’s creation he could have survived such a crash. The full impact of the
car smashing into the tractor-trailer…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">However, here he was, on his back and staring up at the
big blue sky. The sun’s rays bathed him in warmth. The only thing he felt was
the aching in his back and legs as he attempted to sit up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aaron did it slow and carefully. When he was fully erect,
leaning against a tree for support, he found himself staring at the same floppy
hat and dark sunglasses of his driver. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“We made it.” She began to laugh, Aaron right along with
her; he reached up with stiff arms, removed the hat and sunglasses, and kissed
Martina breathless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-26533797832265208452013-10-18T22:10:00.000-02:302013-10-18T22:10:11.115-02:30Thomas Rydder stands in The Clearing with some Restless Souls<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p>I'm enjoying a nice moonlit night sitting on my wharf and enjoying some rare solitude and warm weather waiting for my friend Thomas to drop by share a drink and give me the inside scoop on not one but <strong>two </strong>of his latest works! How lucky can a gal get?</o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p>Normally I only do either an interview or a promo for upcoming releases, but Thomas is an old hand around this wharf, often helping the gang mend fishing nets, so I wanted to do both for him. </o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p>First, our lively chat:</o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Welcome,
<span style="color: blue;">Thomas Rydder </span> have a seat, sorry that it is not more comfy,
I did have two Lazy Boys here but the shed was robbed last evening, leaving me with these milk crates. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hi Tina, and
thanks for the hospitality. Milk crates are fine - I've sat on worse. Since
it's getting into fall, I'd like a White Russian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Thank you
for coming<span style="color: blue;"> Thomas</span> though I have known you for years, those who are spying on us around the shed, don't, so please tell us a little about yourself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hoo boy.
Something I'm not really good at. Okay, I'm 56, have been a Marine, warehouse
worker, handyman, strike security guard, data entry clerk, auto body repairman,
land surveyor, and most recently, the project manager for a civil engineering
firm. Been around the world once, visited a dozen states, lived in five more,
along with Japan and Okinawa for a year. Now, I draw on all my life's
experiences in an effort to entertain folks with my books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Could you please tell me about </span>The Clearing and Restless Souls?</span> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"The
Clearing", my debut thriller, actually came out this past March, but due
to some review remarks on one particular aspect of the book, I decided to
re-write a couple parts, and am now re-launching it. It's about a small town in
southwestern Pennsylvania that gets some unwanted visitors - the large kind,
with lots of hair and super long fangs. The residents discover their new
occupants through a series of grisly events, and spend the rest of the story
trying to rid themselves of some very distasteful neighbors. Not everyone lives
through this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Restless
Souls started out as something to do while I worked through editing my
"The Clearing." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All the
stories are about spirits who are trapped in our world. Each of them seek out -
or are sought out by - live folks. All with disastrous results, I might add...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, <span style="color: blue;">The Clearing and Restless Souls</span> sounds intriguing. Are there
particular parts of your stories that you really enjoyed writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In "The
Clearing", the process by which everyone becomes aware of the nature of
their problem is pretty entertaining to me. (Not to sound morose, just sayin').<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
"Colors" (short story), my favorite part was when the main character,
Harrison Street, smacked a guy in the mouth. Not that he did, but <i>why </i>he
did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In "Do
Unto Others" (short story), Jeremy's way of dealing with life I find
fascinating. (Since I wrote it, that might sound odd, but it's true.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">And in
"Simona Says" (novella), my favorite scene is the one where she gets
her wish - through a visitor both she and her friend Mary are ill-prepared for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p>It was a peaceful yarn so far with Thomas and I was enjoying it, until a far away voice shouts: </o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I groan because I know it's Jack.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Hey dude, tell us who
your favourite characters are!"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Great
question - uh - dude, whoever the hell you are. Not all of them were the main
characters of the stories, actually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In "The
Clearing", there's a big farmer by the name of Dan Wigand who is
no-nonsense. He's a simple fellow, honest and hard-working, and doesn't suffer
foolishness. I picture him as the backbone of the area in which the story is
set. A salt of the earth type, you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
"Colors", which is a story centered around a biker gang, a fellow by
the name of Mountain figures heavy in the story line. As you can imagine, Mr.
Mountain is, well, let's say large. He's also very affable and an all-around
likable chap.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
"Simona Says", I actually took a liking to the cop in the story. He's
carved out of the mold that created the flatfoot detectives of decades past.
Nose to the grindstone, keep at it until you get answers, don't take crap from
anyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">And in
"Do Unto Others", Jeremy, who is the main guy, is street mean and has
learned how to deal with situations in a very straightforward, let's say
reactionary way. Not that I have violent tendencies, but I envy him that
freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sorry
about that, but the question brought<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>another question to light, "If<span style="color: #0b5394;"> The Clearing or your other stories</span> were to be
optioned for a movie, who do you see playing your main characters?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Whew. Tough
one. Jack's a real pain in the derriere, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I did
actually thing about this with The Clearing, and since the county sheriff is
rather the main character, I'd like to have Timothy Olyphant play him. Tim is
one of the best actors on TV, and I think he'd do a bang-up job of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In "Do
Unto Others", I picture Jeremy looking a lot like Adrian Brody, and with
the same off-hand manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
"Colors", Harrison is a bit of a coward, but yet tall and stalwart,
so I'm thinking Chris Pine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
"Simona Says", I'd would have loved to have a young Helena Bonham
Carter play Simona, but I'll go with Bonnie Wright, oddly enough another
actress in the Harry Potter series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">They will
be perfect, <span style="color: #0b5394;">Thomas</span> I could really see those actors playing that
part. I was wondering, as a person who writes on the side, during my down time,
my writing process starts with forming the story in my head before I put pen to
paper, what is your writing process like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Yep, that's
the start. I typically have the first germ of a story spring up at the
darnedest times - and believe it or not, twice it's been in the shower. I've
learned to carry a notebook with me, so I can jot down the idea when I think of
it. After that, the ideas tend to roll around - stewing, if you will. I get
little snippets here and there about things and characters I'd like to see in
the story, and once again, I have to jot them down. By the time I actually sit
down to write a story, I have a good idea what I want to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> I should have known that the rest of the gang would be curious about what Thomas was saying to me, so I wasn't surprised when Terrance, obviously drunk, staggers over to us. He trips up in a loose board and spills his drink on Thomas and gets a little rude and nosy.</o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All of
this sounds fascinating but I heard writing is a hell of a lot of work, why do
you do it, what do you get out of it?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">At least Jack
didn't spill crap all over me. How did you get saddled with these winners?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If it will
make you leave me alone, I'll answer you, Terrance, big fella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">You know, I
kind of tripped over writing. I didn't have the type of beginning that many
have had. I didn't yearn to write all my life and so on. It was quite
accidental, and it doesn't feel like work to me. Work is doing something you
don't enjoy. I enjoy writing, a lot. I've done a few things from a creativity
standpoint - played the trumpet in various bands, sang, some other things. But
man, you get to create <i>worlds</i> with writing. Your very own worlds, where
you create the people, places, and best of all, the rules. What could possibly
be more fun than that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thanks for the awkward segue,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Terrance, now go over with the rest of the b'ys and let me and <span style="color: #0b5394;">Thomas </span>have our yarn. Terrance asked you why you like to write, now I want to
ask you, is there anything about writing you don't like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Re-writing is
very hard. As I mentioned above, I re-wrote parts of my first book, and that, I
have to say, was work. Once you get a particular scene or scenes in your head,
along with the characters, it's rough to back up and take it all at a different
angle. I had a tough time of it, but in the end, I really like how it came out.
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write, what is it that you hope your readers take away from your story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know. I really don't write to send messages or convey any particular moral. I
like to think my stories are reflections of life, and I hope people are moved,
amused, or horrified. Um - I mean by my stories, not my writing skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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list is building, and my one complaint is that the flippin' landlord won't let
me stop paying rent so I can write full time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"The Clearing" is on the way, I have an idea for another full-length
book about a group of ghost hunters, one about a serial killer who uses
biological weapons, a YA novel about time travel, and yet another centered on a
young married couple who has the ghost of a murdered woman invade their country
home. I'm good for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thanks a million for answering all my
questions…and the others, <span style="color: #0b5394;">Thomas</span> it has been a real pleasure. Since we are being spied on, might as well make some money off the news bags. Where are your books available?</span></div>
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paperback - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Clearing-ebook/dp/B00BMEVA0W/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1382141815&sr=8-6&keywords=the+clearing" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Clearing-ebook/dp/B00BMEVA0W/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1382141815&sr=8-6&keywords=the+clearing</a></span></div>
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- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Restless-Souls-3-dark-fables-ebook/dp/B00FYQ59K6/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1382118924&sr=1-3&keywords=restless+souls" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Restless-Souls-3-dark-fables-ebook/dp/B00FYQ59K6/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1382118924&sr=1-3&keywords=restless+souls</a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">And if anyone
is actually foolish enough to wish contacting me:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">You look a little cold,<span style="color: #073763;">Thomas, its getting kind of chilly. Is there anything you like to add?</span></span><br />
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been most generous with your crates and your booze, and I'm most grateful for
both. I'd just like to say that the ebook versions of both my works are
available for an introductory price of 99 cents, so swing by and grab one with
that price lasts! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Now, if you'd
be so kind to fill my thermos with some more of that fine grog, I'll wander
back home now :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> Good night, Thomas, it's been a real pleasure. </o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span class="StrongEmphasis"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A small town in western Pennsylvania – quaint, simple, peaceful.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana, arial, helvetica, sans";">I was born in 1957 in a small
town in Western Pennsylvania that had - and still has - one traffic light.
There wasn't a whole lot to do there, and we had few neighbors, so I learned to
play quite a bit of make-believe - soldiers, cowboys and Indians, that kind of
thing. At the same time, I loved to read and watch old movies. On Saturdays, my
dad played in a country western band, and I stayed up to wait for him. It was
during that stretch that I discovered the horror movie. You know the ones I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana, arial, helvetica, sans";">Fast forward 40 years. I'm
now the project manager for a small civil engineering firm in picturesque
Charleston, South Carolina with my lovely wife and four rescue pets, two dogs,
two cats. Oh - and eight feral cats outside that put up with us because we give
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana, arial, helvetica, sans";">Anyway, since childhood, I've
loved to create. I played trumpet, sang, even dabbled in genealogy. Nothing
quite did it for me. Over the years, I'd composed quite a few term papers and
theses (there are a few ex-teenagers in this world who owe their English grades
to yours truly), and unfailingly earned an "A". My wife knew this,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana, arial, helvetica, sans";">What the hey, I thought. So I
sat down and found a writing site called Hubpages. Nice little site, and I
started getting the basics of writing a little from some of the inhabitants. I
wrote a short story, and everyone liked it. So, I wrote another one. Except it
kept growing, and I kept getting more ideas, and it lengthened to 20 thousand
words, then 30, then 40. By the time I sat back, I had the rough draft of my
first novel, except back then it was called "Werewolves and
Flapjacks". Somewhere along the way I decided to submit my work (now
called "The Clearing) to three publishers. I was turned down twice, and
miraculously was accepted by the gentleman who gently rules this site, Mr. Tim
Taylor. And the rest, as they say, is history. By the way, you need to like
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana, arial, helvetica, sans";">Even though I make wise
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"Lord heavens above, Tina! Put on your sunglasses and come out side and look at this!"</div>
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"Relax, Gerard, that's just Kyra Dune's new release, Web of Light."</div>
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Valdor didn’t hesitate, didn’t take even a moment to think on what might happen, he simply ran. What he hit was not a solid wall, but a sort of thickness. For him, passing the statue was like walking through water with weighted feet. The air pressed against him, trapping the breath in his lungs. And it was cold. So cold what little breath he could manage frosted before his eyes. </div>
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Seva’s entire body bucked, her back arching and her neck snapping back. She drew in a gasping breath, then collapsed. Valdor caught her before she hit the floor as her upper body crossed the line to his side. She shivered as if cold, then grew still. Valdor pulled her the rest of the way out of the circle, then lifted her up into his arms. She was light, but he was unused to such labor and staggered under her weight. Still, he managed to carry her out of the temple. </div>
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-1516050151070367162013-10-08T22:04:00.000-02:302013-10-08T22:04:29.953-02:30Lucky Girl: Violet Ivy
Can you keep a secret for me? <br />
I have a very intimate secret that must be kept only between you and me. If the Back of The Shed gang find out about what I'm about to do, they swarm the Shed of Solicitation like flies to honey and ruin what could be my most important promotion yet. <br />
This promotion carries an important message at the same time being ultra sexy. <br />
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Today the Shed of Solicitation takes on a another meaning.<br />
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I'm hosting the autobiography of an international call girl-Violet Ivy. <br />
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This Australian beauty tells how her life went from being an innocent farmer's daughter to a sexy world travelled woman who pleasured others for money. Do what I did, save your judgement for the black robed people sitting on the bench...or at least after you read Lucky Girl. <br />
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autobiography of an international call girl. Scary, funny and bizarre stories
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The sex industry is
clouded in mystery. It has to be to some extent or it wouldn’t survive. But in
this age of internet porn, buying pubic hair trimmings online and wife swapping
parties it’s about time the veils of mystery were taken down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visit the chicken and the egg scenario. Which came first the prostitute or the
client? If there were no clients then obviously there would be no sex workers.
But what if there weren’t any prostitutes? Would guys wank themselves silly to
porn? Harass their post-menopausal wives? Frequent bars trying their luck? Or
hassle the secretary and risk being charged with sexual harassment? Would
statistics for rape be on the increase? Is prostitution a necessary evil in our
society? Don’t mindlessly believe and quote information spoon fed to you by
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my intention to get into this industry, I’ve travelled the world, had
incredible experiences and bought several properties. I won’t have to rely on
the government pension when I retire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are co-workers, madams and clients. Brilliant people who I would never
otherwise have had the good fortune to meet. I will <i>never</i> regret my
decision to enter this field. It has not always been a bed of roses, but when I
compare it to what my life might have been; cleaning job, shitty boss,
marriage, perhaps divorce, mortgage, kids, living in the burbs, scraping by to
give my kids a better life than I was destined for, I feel that I have been
rescued…..thank God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you happy? Tell that to someone thrown out of his house because he can’t make
the payments or the mother who can’t afford Christmas presents for her kids <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">again</i> this year. I’ve been poor. Money
equals choices. Options of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how</i> to
travel on this journey we call life. Did I make some mistakes? Sure! But
there’s not too much I’d change. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Money gives security. Poverty causes ulcers. Financial hardship can also make
you compromise yourself in ways that being a sex worker never will. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">This industry eats
its young and damages those not strong enough to cope. Every worker has a
different personality, head space, upbringing, personal history and therefore
experience. This book is a glimpse of mine. I am not advocating anyone join the
profession. That is a personal choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could never have imagined what my life journey would look like or where I would
be now. I don’t even know where in the world I will be in twelve months. What I
will be doing? Who I might be bonking, caning or smearing with hot wax?
Exciting isn’t it? Carpe diem – seize the day. I’m a lucky girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ivy grew up on a small wheat and sheep farm in the outback of Western
Australia. A spray of freckles across her nose, pigtails streaming down her
back as she swam naked in the local creek to cool off during the endless
summers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could have predicted her transformation into one of the world’s most elite,
international escorts? The wanton woman satisfying the needs and desires of the
most affluent men and women of the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was not always easy for Violet. Hers is a rags-to-riches story from the seedy
brothels of the mining town Kalgoorlie to attending the Kentucky Derby and the
Oscars on the arms of the most influential men on the face of the planet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continues to work in an industry that can either make or break it's players.
She has had to learn how to adapt and hone her expertise to climb to the top of
her game. Based in Melbourne, Australia, where sex work is legal, she travels
to far flung places, (if the money's right), as either a courtesan or a fetish
Mistress, fulfilling her clients' needs and desires. Encouragement from friends
and family to share her adventures led her to begin a series of books exposing
the realities behind the veil of the oldest profession in the world. She
introduces her readers to myriad bizarre, scary and hilarious people and
situations she comes across in her travels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Violet Ivy’s Debut novel…<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">From
the opening paragraph to the final words I was hooked, no pun intended. Frankly
there is no other book like Lucky Girl whether one reaches for Diary of a Call
Girl or The Happy Hooker. Well, there is one comparison...the work of Nancy
Friday who wrote in a similar fashion. When one writes about bondage and
discipline it is necessary to keep in mind the sensibilities of readers who may
not understand these matters. For me it was an eye-opener. Lucky Girl gave me
an understanding of B&D that now makes complete sense to me. People should
read this and understand the life and mind of a sex worker. It becomes obvious
very quickly that not all are uneducated drug addicts who can't hold down a job
anywhere else. I look forward to the follow up books. Violet Ivy is a writer,
and that is the highest praise any reviewer can give. To possess such talent
suggests that Violet Ivy is indeed a Lucky Girl.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">‘…gripped me from the start …very readable,
an honest account of someone 'who's been there'. An important work worth
publication.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Ruko
Kitamaru, Author, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Ice Cream in the
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I read every chapter and want more. A
fascinating look into your world presented with straight forward honesty,
warmth and colour. Such a fresh contrast to the drab, dark or dirty shades that
the media and society paints your career. I’m completely fascinated to know
more about Violet, she's so real.’<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">'</span>I was interested in comparing this with
Belle de Jour’s books which I read last year. Whilst I remember almost nothing
of hers, I’m pretty sure parts of your diary will stay with me. You’re not
afraid to tell it as it is; warts, unpleasant odours and all!’<br />
</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">‘A light and humorous but overall compelling
biography….an in depth and revealing picture of the life of a sex worker, at
the same time demonstrating that someone working in this industry has the
talent and perspicacity to write a biography of this quality. Well done…..it’s
really very good.’<br />
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She must be. You couldn’t make this story up. I feel that I know her, the way
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-9980895597868450202013-09-29T21:15:00.000-02:302013-09-29T21:21:37.199-02:30My first time around with Gay Ingram <span style="font-family: inherit;">
It has been a busy summer with fishing and all the fun promos I have hosted, but it is time for the Lazy boy to get some use as they are starting to get dusty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is why when the lovely and prestigious author Gay Ingram texted me about coming over for a beverage and chat about her work<span style="color: black;">, I welcomed her with much enthusiasm. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I just hoped that Gay would be okay with my little shed gang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome, <span style="color: #c00000;">Gay Ingram</span> have a seat. I know you
probably heard that I had only milk crates to sit on but have since acquired
these Lazy Boy recliners. I hope they are more comfortable. Would you like a
drink? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hey,
we use tree trunks as seats around our place so a milk crate will do just
fine…for a little while, at least until my bum gets sore. I will never pass up
a cup of coffee, black please.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for coming <span style="color: #c00000;">Gay </span>though I have known
you for years, this yahoos are unfamiliar with you, share a little about
yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well
I camp out on some acres in the piney woods of east Texas. My great husband and
I have been there thirty-plus years. We’ve been married over fifty years so
that gives you a ballpark of how old I am. I have one living son who lives
fairly close by but I don’t see him as often as I’d like. My two granddaughters
recently moved from Oregon to Arkansas which made me very happy because that’s
quite a bit closer and perhaps I’ll get to see my two greats, Josh and Lexi
more often.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I have seen <span style="color: #c00000;">Second Time Around</span> (on)</span> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Ingram/e/B008VS6AJI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Ingram/e/B008VS6AJI</span></a><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
and I would love to pick it up, but before I do, could you tell me a little
about it?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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it’s about a recently widowed woman who has an accidental meeting with a man
who she suspects is her first love of twenty-five years previously. The hitch
is that he supposedly was killed in a train wreck on his way to propose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Wow, <span style="color: #c00000;">Second Time
Around</span> sounds intriguing, is there a particular part of the story that
you really enjoyed writing?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I
really enjoyed doing the research. I set the story in Dallas, Texas in the 50’s
because I lived there at the time. Then I found a forum online where folks were
posting their memories of Dallas in that time period which really gave my
remembrances a kick-start.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The shed is pleasantly quiet until Jack belches and shouts out his favourite question. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hey dude,
tell us who your favourite characters are!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hmmmm,
favorite characters. Well, I really connect with authors rather than their
characters. Madelyn L’Emgle is one of my favorites and so is Terry Brooks. I
recently discovered Deborah Macomber and am really enjoying reading her stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Sorry about that, but Jack's question brought another question to light,
If <span style="color: #c00000;">Second Time Around </span>were to be
optioned for a movie, who do you see playing your main characters?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What
an interesting question. I’ve always envisioned Susan Sarandon playing Dolly
Summers. Not sure who I’d choose for the role of Douglas, maybe Richard Gere.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They will be perfect, <span style="color: #c00000;">Gay</span> I could really see
Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere playing those parts. I was wondering, as a person who writes on the
side, during my down time, my writing process starts with forming the story in
my head before I put pen to paper, what is your writing process like?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It
seems, with my fiction writing of course, my stories always begin with a
character who insinuates himself/herself in my thoughts. I spend a lot of time
interacting with them subconsciously and as they reveal more of themselves, their
particular time period and situation begin to develop.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know how I missed it, but a bundle of promotion posters lay rolled up in the middle of the shed floor. Terrance did not see them as he was heading to the cooler for another beer and tripped over them, spilling whatever contents was left in the beer bottle in his hand over Gay.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">If I had a hole, I crawl in it. This embarrassment did not stop the yahoo from asking his tired question. </span> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All of this sounds fascinating but I heard writing is a hell of a lot of
work, why do you do it, what do you get out of it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oops!
Careful there, Terrance. That’s going to clash with my perfume I’m afraid. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
to why do I write, well, let me tell you. I just can’t keep from doing it.
After Second Time Around was published I went over two years without writing
any kind of fiction. Oh, I did my hand-writing three pages every morning a la
Julia Cameron’s recommendation, which I urge every writer to do. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I
had a personal blog going for a while until it ran out of steam. And I post a
blog on Venture Galleries.com every week where I feature some historical facts
about not-well-known cities across the US. I’m also the editor of Write With
Pen, the monthly newsletter for one of the writing groups I belong to: North
East Texas Writers Organization, or NETWO for short. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But
I just lost any enthusiasm for writing fiction of any sort even though I had
two unfinished manuscripts collecting dust on the shelf. But recently I picked
up one and am beginning to work on it a bit. I found out if I don’t write it’s
like something is missing in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks for the awkward segue, Terrance, now go over with the rest of the
b'ys and let me and <span style="color: #c00000;">Gay</span> have our yarn.
Terrance asked you why you like to write, now I want to ask you, is there
anything about writing you don't like?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not
the writing per se. I enjoy the research necessary because I tend to set my
stories in a particular time frame and I’m a stickler for getting it historically
correct. I enjoy revision because it usually reads better afterwards. I even
like the editing part. In fact, I have an editing service and have done some
for a few other writers. What gives me the willies is all the promotion and
marketing being required of authors these days to sell their books.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">When you write, what is it that you hope your readers take away from your
story?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">My
stories are about ordinary people who are thrust into extraordinary
circumstances. The take-away I strive to deliver is that we as humans are
stronger than we realize and that there is always hope to overcome. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you have any other stories you are currently writing or are planning to
write?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Oh
goody! I was hoping you’d ask that. I’m real excited about my latest work,
Morgana’s Revenge, which has a release date of Oct. 1<sup>st</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about a young woman who loses her
parents in a home fire then goes looking for answers. She goes undercover as a
tutor to three precocious children…there are two men vying for her attention…lots
of intrigue…and it was a pleasure to write.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the others, <span style="color: #c00000;">Gay Ingram</span> it has been a real pleasure. As I said
before, I have seen <span style="color: #c00000;">Second Time Around</span> online
at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Ingram/e/B008VS6AJI" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Ingram/e/B008VS6AJI </a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is there anywhere else your book is
available and what formats?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">All
of my books are available in both print and digital through Amazon. Just check
out my Author Page to check them out.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It
was a pleasure having you here and you are most welcome to come back anytime.
Is there anything else you like to add before you go? <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Just
want to say I’ve really enjoyed our visit…even the beer stains Terrance left
with me.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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This. Is. So. Freaking. Cool! <br />
I am so lost in my anticipation that I do not see the rolled up piece of carpet until I trip over it and land on my hands and knees, cutting them.<br />
"Jesus Tina, watch where you are going! Yelled Frank as he rushed over to help me up and assess my wounds. <br />
"What's got you all in a daze today? I never saw you go around with such a big goofy grin since you were six." Frank commented as he cleaned and bandaged my cuts.<br />
"I just thinking how excited I am about featuring Anita Bell on the shed today."<br />
"Anita Bell? She must be some kind of movie star or something for you to roll out the red carpet and decorate the shed with fancy lights."<br />
"Anita is not a movie star, but close. She is a best seller author, has won numerous awards and... squee! Her latest book is going to become a movie!"<br />
"Sounds awesome, no wonder you are excited!"<br />
"I am, this is the biggest author I promoted yet. I just love her."<br />
"Well, let's hope this puts the Shed of Solicitation on the map. Good luck to you today."<br />
"Thank you."<br />
I stare dreamy eyed into the horizon before I force myself to snap out of it and get to work.<br />
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Romance: When a hapless cartoonist is electrified by a small gift from her
mysterious neighbor, she falls into a web of intrigue and wickedly funny
events, which leave her teetering on a cliffhanger between Love and Disaster...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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author of comedy-mysteries and fun-informative non-fictions with over 2 million
readers internationally... currently working the next big stage. Yep! You
guessed it! ...[Pssst... if you didn't guess, try catching it on FB or twitter
via my webpage AnitaBell.com ...Or smack yourself with one of my books until it
dawns on you.]... Hugs for now. You'll probably need it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first author to win an International CrimeStoppers Award for a children's
series. [YAY!]<br />
: Tagged by Dead Dogs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When a movie producer calls after reading my books, and my agent has to say
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When TV crews show up with their sexiest, skinniest female reporters... and I'm
still trying to find the garden rake for my hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my Pen-Name A.A. Bell [e.g. author of the multi-award winning Diamond Eyes
series about the girl who can see through time.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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real name and pen-name for over 30 titles since 1990. I write all of my own
books so I'm always the sole creator, aside from narrators hired by 4 of my Big
6 publishers for the audio editions, who sometimes appear on Amazon as
co-creators. So if ever you see a book with my name as a co-writer, or a
self-published book that is not listed on this page, then that's another writer
who began using the same name for publication. Go figure. Somewhere out there
must be a cloning machine. Run now. The world wasn't safe with only one of me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10 Bestselling Business Books of the Decade, Downunder 2000+ (Your Mortgage,
Your Money, and Your Investment Property, which all have subtitles longer than
my arm and a string of other books in that series), but I've never been
"CEO" of anything unless you count being boss of my own muses, and
even then, I'm usually the one who's bound, gagged and chained to a keyboard
with a gun to my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-65740437248416304622013-09-08T15:56:00.000-02:302013-09-09T07:12:52.417-02:30Constructing Marcus promo: Danielle DeVor "Constructing Marcus, is that a new construction project the government has on the go?" Jack inquired as he stared long and hard at the Shed of Solicitation's new promotion sign. <br />
"Mar-cus. Hey, I know Marcus. Marcus Murphy, Danny Murphy's son." Terrance commented. <br />
"Who is Danny Murphy?" Jack asked.<br />
"You know, the chap that owns Murphy construction in Burin."<br />
I watch the exchange between Jack and Terrance and put a stop to the nonsense.<br />
"No you yahoos. Constructing Marcus is author Danielle Devoir's new novel."<br />
"Who's Danielle Devoir and what is the book about?"<br />
Rolling my eyes, I handed Jack Danielle's info. <br />
"Here read for yourself." I stated as I walked away. <br />
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DeVor spent her early years fantasizing about vampires and watching “Salem’s
Lot” way too many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After living
briefly in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she moved back to her hometown to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When not writing and reading about weird
things, you will find her hanging out at the nearest coffee shop, enjoying a
mocha frappuccino</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sixteen-year-old ghost hunter, Emma Hoffman thought that
moving into an old Victorian was going to be awesome-- ghosts galore.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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haunted—not by a ghost, but by a construct (a spirit created to be a servant).
As she gets to know Marcus, the construct, he asks her to help him avenge his
maker and find her killer. Emma’s not too sure this is a good idea, she’s a
ghost hunter after all, not a detective, but she agrees to help him anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Emma begins to have feelings for Marcus- feelings she isn’t ready to admit.
Then the sorcerer who killed Marcus’s maker shows up at Emma’s house with an
insane plan to capture Marcus and absorb his power- Emma isn’t having it.
Marcus is hers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marcus’s life force, Emma risks losing him. It’s a race against time for Emma
to figure out how to stop the sorcerer and his spell before Marcus fades away
and disappears from her life forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s
just something about looking at a cardboard box. You know what’s inside, but
there’s still that jolt of excitement, energy that licks your nerve endings.
Maybe it’s just the anticipation, I don’t know, but I definitely felt
something. It could be that this was the last box I needed to account for. All
the others, my boxes of books, movies, and knickknacks were checked out and
were okay. This…this was the box that mattered the most.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The box
was in front of me on the bed. I’d carried it into the house myself, not
trusting the moving guys to carry it up our new, wicked-cool, wooden staircase.
The new house was split between two levels with a landing in the middle that
held a beautiful stained glass window. Last thing I needed was for the guy to
trip, my box go flying through the air, and taking out that window. So, to
eliminate that possibility, I’d carried the box up myself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The
last time I’d seen it was when I handed it to the moving guy. I’d carefully
explained to the guy that this was a box to be careful with. Did he heed my
warning? Probably not. It’s not like you can really expect anyone to be careful
with your stuff except you. At 5’ 6”, I don’t exactly look fierce or anything. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
remembered wrapping everything in it in bubble wrap, taping up the box. I
really wanted to carry it to Boston myself, but we were going by plane, and
there just wasn’t enough room. I had to hope for a miracle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">So, I
did the best I could and I hoped that it wouldn’t come open in transit. I’d
even written, “Fragile” and “This Side Up” on the sides with a permanent
marker. Now, if they paid attention, which I kind of doubted, nothing should be
damaged. If my equipment was broken, I would not be happy. Granted, Dad would
probably replace anything that was broken, but it wouldn’t be the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Memories
rushed forward, pushing everything aside. I remembered Florida. I remembered
the heat and the bugs. I thought I’d never miss it, but apparently, I did. No
more exotic plants to watch out for, no more lizards poking around in the grass
of the backyard. It felt dark here, like an expanse of nothingness that I
couldn’t cross no matter how hard I tried to walk across the fog. I felt frozen
and sedentary.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If the
electronics were broken, the new stuff wouldn’t be from Florida, wouldn’t have
been in ghost hunts with my friends. We’d called ourselves “The Ghost Chicks.”
We’d run around Tallahassee trying to get people let us into their homes so we
could investigate possible hauntings; no one ever really let us. Mostly, we’d
gotten a lot of pictures of dust. I was really going to miss it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
stared out the window. It was sunny and looked entirely too chipper. I didn’t
feel chipper. I felt scared and uneasy. The unknown was something I dreaded,
and this was a huge honking unknown. I opened the box with a pair of scissors
and set them down on the bed. It was time. There was no sense in putting it off
any longer. I had to do it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">After
taking one last deep breath, I popped the cardboard flaps away from the tape
and looked inside. Everything had shifted around. I reached inside, pulling out
newspaper. At least nothing was missing, now if all of it worked…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Of
course the heat might mess with the equipment too. I’m sure I had to be more
careful about that in Florida than Boston, but still, it was hot. I wiped the
sweat off my brow. The air conditioning wasn’t on high enough. Mom got too cold
if the air was on too high. But then, Mom wore sweaters when it was
seventy-five degrees. Mom was always cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Who
knew it would be this hot is Boston?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
grabbed my book bag from the bottom of the staircase and headed off in the
direction of where I thought Dad’s home office was. This house was so much
bigger than it looked on the outside, but then, the way the yard was, you
didn’t see how far back the house stretched into the backyard. The hallways
were twisty and seemed to go in all directions. I felt like Alice in Wonderland
fighting her way through a maze. I looked for anything that could be a hidden
passage, but there was nothing; all the space was accounted for. It figured.
But still, the walls felt like they were getting narrower. It was odd.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally,
I knew I was near the office, but somehow, I’d gone down the wrong branch of
the hallway. This hallway was darker than the others and only had one door at
the end. My fingers tingled with excitement. Who knew what was on the other
side of that door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I tried
the old brass knob. It was unlocked. After opening the door, I stepped inside.
It took a moment for my eyes to adjust. Colors of covers burst from the
bookcases surrounding me like a multifaceted stone. It seemed to twinkle in the
light streaming into the turret window. I’d never seen a library like this. It
was the best library ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">My
friends back in Florida always thought I was weird for liking libraries. Yeah,
I had an e-reader, but I loved the smell of a book. I liked holding the book as
I read. There was some sort of connection I felt with a book if I could touch
the paper. Holding a mini-computer just wasn’t the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">This
library was the type you’d see in old movies. Large windows that stretched from
the ceiling to the floor, built-in bookcases of dark wood that lined the walls;
filled with leather bound tomes no one had read in years. I was in Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
remembered the day we moved in that Dad had said something to the movers about
keeping books. I thought he’d been talking about all of the books in his
office, but maybe he was talking about these.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
dropped my book bag by the door and wandered into the room. I felt a reverence
here. The room smelled faintly of incense and old books. It was perfect. I set
my muffin down on a small table that held only a lamp and ventured further
where I promptly bounced my shin off a low sitting coffee table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Jesus
Christ!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">After
hopping around looking like a wounded duck, the pain calmed down and I limped
over to the first bookcase. I let my fingers dance on the spines of the book.
Some of them were the classics— Dickens, Hawthorne, Poe. Others, however, were
in languages I did not know. Some of them were Spanish, which I could read. I‘d
have to ask Dad about the others.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I moved
from bookcase to bookcase, looking for something that I just had to read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right now</i>. It would be silly to enter a
library and not find something to read. When as my eyes settled on an old book
whose title had been worn off the jacket, I felt a cold chill creep down my
spine. I knew it wasn’t cold in the room, hell it wasn’t cold anywhere in the
house. I slowly turned towards the window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Standing
in front of the window was a guy. I hadn’t heard anyone come in, and I would
have. The floor creaked slightly when you walked across it. I looked away and
then looked back. He was still there. That was when I noticed that he was just
slightly transparent. I could faintly see the cross bars of the window through
him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
wanted to run and get my camera, but I was afraid that by the time I got it and
turned back around, he’d be gone. Who was he?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Hello,”
I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">He
turned his head toward me. That was when I noticed he was dressed in clothes
like the ones I’d seen in history books of people from around the turn of the
Twentieth Century. He stared at me. His eyes were bright green, almost
startling in their clarity. His hair was brown and curled just slightly around
his ears.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Simply
put, he was beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">He
continued to stare at me. His eyes had a sadness that made me want to do
something, anything to take the pain away. I shook myself. No, it wasn’t a
power he was transmitting. There was something about him that struck a chord
with me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
realized I’d been staring at him so long, I hadn’t even blinked, and when I
did, he was gone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">“Dammit.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I knew
I hadn’t imagined him. If I had, that was one hell of a dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I
walked across the room, grabbed my muffin from the table and walked to the door
of the room. I looked back. There was nothing there. My mystery man remained
hidden. I snatched my book bag from the floor and went back upstairs to my
room. I would have to start being more careful. At the very least, I should be
holding my cell phone so I could snap a quick picture. It was stupid of me to
not be prepared. Dumb me had left my backpack on the floor by the door. I at
least should have taken the camera out of it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, I
knew my house was haunted. But by who, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that
was the question</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Tunnel Black, Blood Red, Light True, Hope Dead. Geez, that's morbid."</span></span></div>
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surprise posts, too. This is your darling SciFiMagpie, over and out! </span>Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-20506914880213684202013-08-31T16:07:00.003-02:302013-08-31T16:07:59.738-02:30Chris Sheilds Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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"Chris. Chris Shields. The author/professor chap who helps ASMSG founder R Grey Hoover with all the administrative duties for the group. Today is his holiday. Chris Shields day!"</div>
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"We are giving Chris his own day and helping him promote his work all over social media creation to say thank you for all his hard work. He deserves every ounce of appreciation all of us at the Author Social Media Support Group can give him."</div>
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The Steward, Book 1--<a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FDLXOX&h=wAQFEWvTvAQEIwNSdzPIdXclmmPzHweEv48cGolNvPx7YDA&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/DLXOX</a><br /> The Changeling, Book 2--<a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FpnL7I&h=JAQFevq4aAQETWy1QJr5V-yE8pT-WIqlWaEKfRRqN7VPBzA&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/pnL7I</a><br /> The Aetherfae, Book 3--<a href="http://goo.gl/qk9uX" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/qk9uX</a><br />
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<br />Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-9383381306922140762013-08-24T11:40:00.000-02:302013-08-24T11:40:36.790-02:30Dragonstar promo by Kyra Dune
I do not know where this woman finds the time in the midst of her hectic schedule, but the talented Kyra Dune has done it again! She has penned another novel, a Young Adult fantasy named...<br />
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and soon he finds himself on the run with a sack full of stolen jewels, and
more, for unknown to him, one of those jewels is the fabled Dragonstar, created
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Braack, but the Dragonstar has other ideas. From the secret city of thieves, to
the ruins of a castle, to the last stronghold of the elves, Dagen's whole life
is flipped upside down by visions, haunts, strange beasts, and the looming
possibility that one day, he just might have to kill a god. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sound of the knife against the lock seemed impossibly loud, surely loud enough
to wake the dead, and seemed to go on forever. Sweat broke out across Dagen’s
brow. It wasn’t the getting in that was worrying him, he had no doubt that
Halbert could pick the lock, it was the getting out in one piece that would be
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</span>A small click, a soft exclamation of success from Halbert, and the
backdoor was open. The kitchen was dark, the objects within nothing more than
faint outlines in the moonlight. For a moment the boys simply stood there,
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but as for himself it felt as if he were standing on the edge of a cliff. He
could still turn around, could still go back to the safety of the barn, but
once he crossed the threshold, once he took the plunge, there would be no
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life might not be the best in the world, but it was the best he’d ever had. If
he did this, if he stole from Majul, then he would be out on his own now
instead of in four years. And even though they intended to run to Braack, even
though he knew there was no way anyone from Barnum could even know what had
happened here, the idea of being out from under Majul’s protection was
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</span>Halbert stepped into the kitchen and the soft thump of his boots marked
his progress toward the cellar door. He probably didn’t even know Dagen wasn’t
behind him, which sent a little flutter of guilt through him. He might not be
all that experienced in the friend area, but even he knew that you’re supposed
to have your friend’s back, especially when you already told them that you
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cry born of surprise rather than pain. This was followed by a serious of heavy
thumps, each one punctuated by a sound of increasing distress, then silence.
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</span>Dagen’s breath froze in his lungs; his heart tried to sink down into his
stomach while his stomach was trying to crawl up his throat. Some kind of trap,
it had to be. Majul was no fool, he’d known they would come for the jewels. But
it wasn’t too late, not for Dagen, he could still run and nobody need ever know
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"Relax, Gerard, that's just Kyra Dune's new release, Web of Light."</div>
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"Forgive my poor memory, but didn't you just have that up in August?"</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">WEB OF LIGHT</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Each of the heirs looks forward to the
Conclave in different ways. Seva hopes to discover the identity of her father.
Roth worries about having to interact with non-humans. Valdor simply wants to
be invisible. Iza seeks to visit the ancient home of her people. And Ganamere,
the prince and future king, prepares himself for the tedium of a court
function. None of them expects to have their lives changed forever or to find
themselves caught up in the repercussions of a war that ended three hundred
years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the return of the Web of Light,
destruction and death must surely follow. And it will be up to the heirs to
decide how far things will go. Sides will be chosen and lines drawn;
friendships made and broken. For within every heart lies the dark seed of
betrayal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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frowned as Seva moved around the statue, walking as if she were in a daze. He felt
oddly connected and protective of the girl, perhaps because there was a good
chance she was his sister, perhaps for other reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of stopping as if she had run into an invisible wall, as had Roth and Iza, she
walked right on past. Iza gasped, pressing a hand to her lips. For a moment no
one moved, then Tyde tried to do as Seva had done, only to be stopped. He
growled in frustration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up the stairs. “What’s going to happen if she goes inside?” Valdor asked. There
was no doubt in his mind that the goddess had allowed her to pass, but for what
reason, that was what had him worried. His mother had taught him to always be
wary of gods. They were a capricious lot, she had told him, and not always
mindful of the delicacy of mortal life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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envy in Iza’s eyes as she watched Seva open the temple door. “But I should
think it will be something remarkable. No one has set foot inside that place in
three hundred years." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then tried to pass Tyde, who still stood beside the statue. What he felt was a
kind of resistance, but when he pushed against it, it gave way enough for him
to move forward. It was slow going, as if he were walking with stones attached
to his feet. The air was thick, it pressed against his chest and made each
breath a chore. By the time he broke through and was standing on the other
side, he was panting as if he’d been running a great distance. It had taken so
long that Seva had already entered the temple. He glanced back at the others,
then jogged across the open space and up the steps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Within, was a wide chamber, the walls, ceiling, and floors of which were
covered in a multitude of mosaics that told a story beyond Valdor’s ability to
understand. Most of the figures were Gari-Za, though he spotted a number of
humans and blood witches and even a few flyers. Some of the scenes were
peaceful, even pastoral, while others were clearly depictions of fierce and
bloody battles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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space surrounded by what seemed to be a twisted rope painted onto the tiles.
Dust motes drifted in the still air. There was a hallow feeling to this place,
like nowhere else that he had ever been, it seemed almost a sacrilege to step
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space, her head tilted back as if she were gazing up at the ceiling, where a
woman robed in white held a silver sword in one hand and a golden orb in the
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his footsteps echoed off the walls. He wanted to call out to her but somehow he
dare not. It was a helpless, frustrating feeling, not knowing what was
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Holy Mother of (insert whatever higher power you believe in here)! <br>
This sign glared at me outside my window as I was enjoying my morning cup of coffee (that is now covering my newly laid white carpet.) <br>
Someone must have placed that sign on the door of my Shed of Solicitation while I slept last night. <br>
Who could've done such a thing? <br>
I slipped on my glasses and took a closer peek.<br>
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THE UNDERLIGHTERS<br>
By Michelle Browne<br>
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Michelle! I chuckled to myself, you little scamp! <br>
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I hear a tiny ping coming from my phone and see that I have an email from the scamp herself.<br>
She confessed to posting the sign and has asked me to spread the word about her new novel. <br>
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Michelle is a good friend and has done favours for me in the past, so I'm only delighted to do this for her. <br>
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<span style="color: blue;">THE UNDERLIGHTERS </span><br>
<span style="color: blue;">Synopsis.</span><br>
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world. Children are going missing. To save them, she must overcome her wreck of
a personal life and a closet full of skeletons. She doesn’t know if the horrors
in the shadows are real...or if she is going mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18-year-old Janelle Cohen is an electrician
in an underground city. The world above has been swal-lowed by mind-destroying
Dust. Her small life changes forever when a dragon attacks her on the way home
from work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Her friends worry that she has the Fever,
Dust-induced insanity. As more monsters strike down citizens, they change their
minds. A terrifying trip to the surface of the world, the ancient and abandoned
Up, deepens the nightmare. With no world left above, she and the other Crows
cannot afford to fail…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5 stars: “…You will be rewarded with a dive
into the depths of imagination that may leave you questioning, breathless and
inspired.” –www.TracingTheStars.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5 stars: “… Engaging, ground breaking prose
that is not afraid to test the reader’s boundaries. “—Sara Celi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5 stars: “…A wonderful read that is full of
life, nightmares, fear, and dreams.” –Casey Peeler</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://writersonthewharf.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-underlighters-by-michelle-browne.html#more">Read more »</a>Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-57337196322214857562013-08-12T10:46:00.002-02:302013-08-12T10:46:35.361-02:30Once Upon Another Time with Rosary McQuestion
Okay, I'm getting nervous. It was only four days ago the lovely Maer Wilson graced my Lazy Boy recliner to speak of ghosts and their memories and now I have the delightful Rosary Mcquestion coming over; making her the second female to enter the shed in less than a week making the Back of The Shed gang giddy as lusty teenagers. <br />
I know two women guests should not cause quite a stir, but my fellows don't get to see that many female faces beyond mine and their girlfriends and wives. <br />
It may be a frivolous desire to keep wanting my mates to behave, but it continues to be an eternal hope.<br />
I have to role with the punches and pray they will not embarrass me too deeply.<br />
After all, it would be illegal to kill them and they are just not worth going to jail for!<br />
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A knock comes on the door, and I warn the b'ys to behave.<br />
I welcome Rosary and invite her sit down.<br />
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Welcome, <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary McQuestion. <span style="color: black;">have a seat. You probably have heard from other guests that I had only milk crates to sit on, but I have moved on to the Lazy Boy I hope you find it comfortable. Would you like a beverage?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thank you for coming <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary</span>, though I have
known you for years, these yahoos are unfamiliar with you, share a little about
yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay, well I was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up
in Wisconsin and now live in Michigan. I’m in awe of writers who can bang out
10,000 words a day, while I struggle to reach 1,500, and I am very curious
about writers who can create sex scenes so sizzling hot that one must
occasionally turn away from the page for fear of burning out a retina. I'd
grown up in a house that was haunted and had my first experience of knowing
when someone was going to die, when I was six years of age. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t ask.</i> My career in advertising and
marketing spans so many years that I swear it seems it began back in the days
of the horse and buggy. Now I am quite content scribbling out stories</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">
and leading a normal—err, somewhat normal life with my husband and our three
cats</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> I wanted to ask how she would know when someone was going to die, just to satisfy my nagging curiosity to find out if she was some kind of secret supernatural, but I kept my mouth shut. I have to respect my guest. </o:p></span></div>
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I have seen <span style="color: #0070c0;">Once Upon Another Time on your website </span></span><a href="http://www.rosarymcquestion.com/"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="color: blue;">www.rosarymcquestion.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> and I would love to pick it up, but before I do, could you
tell me a little about it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I’d love to. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
novel is about a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> young</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">
woman who is on a journey of self-discovery who learns to overcome grief and to
find true love again. It’s not depressing but rather quite humorous, as some of
my Amazon reviewers have expressed in their review comments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">A quick synopsis is
that Aubrey McCory’s husband, Matt, died in a tragic accident when she was
twenty-eight and pregnant. For the six years he’s been dead, Aubrey still can’t
let go of the guilt she feels over him dying, which at times, had her
fantasizing about Matt romantically returning to her one last time. Like in the
movie "Ghost," when Sam came back and said it final goodbye to Molly.
Then days before the seventh anniversary of his death, a glitch in the universe
gives Aubrey the psychic ability to hear what people are thinking. And by all
accounts, she seems to also have made a psychic connection with the dearly
departed – namely her deceased husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">As fate would have it,
she also meets hunky Gavin Donnelly – whom she feels might be the next Mr.
Right – and her life, becomes topsy-turvy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Once Upon Another Time
is a fun-filled romance story that has humor and a bit of mystery and its
setting is quaint Providence, Rhode Island.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow,</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span lang="EN-US">Once Upon Another Time</span></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> sounds intriguing, is there a particular part of the story
that you really enjoyed writing?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">There are many parts to choose from, but the most fun was giving
Aubrey her wish. Because Matt died in a tragic accident, there were things she
never got to tell him. Writing those final, romantic moments of letting her say
what’s been bottled up inside her for six years and having only seconds left to
say it before Matt has to go back to the afterlife, was immensely enjoyable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> I'm getting lost in this enjoyable conversation and had forgot about the gang who have remained quiet, but out of nowhere I hear Jack yell. </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> "Hey dude,
tell us who your favourite characters are?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
"Hey Jack, I think it's time for you to come up with a new question!" I yell back.<br />
Jack just shrugs his shoulders and says "It's my favourite question." Then returns to his beer.<br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Well, aside from the main characters, Aubrey, Laura and Gavin,
my favorite characters are, Aubrey’s parents, once known as the Abbie and Anita
Hoffman of suburbia. They’re hippies from the '70s generation who look as if
they are stuck in a time warp. They make Aubrey wonder how sane she really is
after growing up with parents who invited half-naked people to backyard
bonfires, grew alfalfa sprouts in the bathtub, and constantly quoted Zen
Buddhism. However, she does think their expertise on parallel universes may help
her with Matt's ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The other character is Katelyn Walker, Aubrey’s close friend. She's
a distinguished academic, a psychiatrist with degrees from Brown University,
and quite the celebrity around Providence. She specializes in sex therapy, and
has written a new unconventional mommies’ book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex, Sizzle, and the Backseat of a Minivan</i>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Sorry about that, but Jack's question brought another question to light,
If </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Once
Upon Another Time</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> were to be optioned for a movie, who
do you see playing your main character(s)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Oddly enough, Mila Kunis would be a great Aubrey and Aston
Kutcher would be perfect to play Gavin Donnelly, the next Mr. Right. They both
do lighthearted humor very well. Plus they’re a couple in real life! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They will be perfect, <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary,</span> I could really
see actors <span style="color: #0070c0;">Mila Kunis</span> and <span style="color: #0070c0;">Aston Kutcher</span> playing those parts. I was
wondering, as a person who writes on the side, during my down time, my writing
process starts with forming the story in my head before I put pen to paper,
what is your writing process like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I take a long time to think about various stories I want to
write. Once I settle on one I think of how it would flow. I write out a few
quick scenarios to see if I like any of them. My next step before I even start
typing anything is that I must first know the ending. The ending will let me
know the story I need to write, as well as the characters and who they are. I
then create a profile for each character and begin writing the story. I will
say, however, that once I get into a story, characters and their original
personalities sometimes change, a lot! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> I see Terrance come towards us, with his bottle of beer in his hand. He does not see the lobster pot that I forgot to put away, trips over it and practically lands in Rosary's lap, to my horror. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="color: black;">The beer splashes in Rosary’s face. She shakes it off and smacks her lips.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p>Terrance does not miss a beat and asks his question. </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">"All of this sounds fascinating but I heard writing is a hell of a lot of
work, why do you do it, what do you get out of it?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hmm, tastes like Barely Wine Ale. I can tell by the rich nutty
flavor. Good choice! Perhaps I should have asked for that instead of this flat
tasting Pepsi. Anyway, to answer your question, I write because I find that my
characters’ lives are so much more exciting than mine and therefore, I can live
vicariously through them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thanks for the awkward segue, Terrance, now go over with the rest of the
b'ys and let me and <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary </span>have our yarn.
Terrance asked you why you like to write, now I want to ask you, is there
anything about writing you don't like? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Perhaps when my muse disappears for weeks on end and doesn’t so
much as give me fair warning of her departure nor when she plans on returning.
It’s quite annoying. But my biggest problem, is trying to write a new novel when
I have the interference of social media networking (marketing) to contend with.
It’s not that I don’t like to be sociable but it leaves me no time for writing.
It’s a terrible catch 22. Lots of Indie writers would agree that marketing
takes up way too much valuable writing time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">When you write, what is it that you hope your readers take away from your
story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">With Once Upon Another Time, one Amazon reviewer explained best
what I had hoped the reader would take away from that story when she said, “Makes
you wonder, think, and want to believe in life's miracles.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Personally, I’ve always believed in life after death—not as we
know it, but as something miraculous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Do you have any other stories you are currently writing or are planning to
write?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Yes, I am working on
something new. I see more of a benefit in writing a series as opposed to
writing singles, so I am now working on a murder/mystery trilogy. It’s a big
departure from writing romance, but there are many genres that I find
intriguing, and would not even rule out the possibility of writing dystopia,
one day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the others, <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary </span>it has been a real pleasure. As I said
before, I have seen <span style="color: #0070c0;">Once Upon Another Time</span>
online on <span style="color: #0070c0;">your website,</span> </span><a href="http://www.rosarymcquestion.com/"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="color: blue;">www.rosarymcquestion.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> is there anywhere else your book is available and what
formats?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Time, can be found on Amazon at</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Rose/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Word/viewBook.at/B00AEGD70A"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="color: blue;">viewBook.at/B00AEGD70A</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Normally it is warm on my wharf in August, but today the dark clouds are looming overhead and the wind that is whipping off the water is making my shed cold. I'm looking at Rosary and though she is too polite to say anything, she looks frozen. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">You
must be frozen solid by now, <span style="color: #0070c0;">Rosary</span>. My
mates have been pretty greedy with the heat, so I am going to let you go so you
can toddle on home and warm up, but before you go is there anything else you
want to add?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Only that it’s been so fun chatting with you in your lovely shed,
Tina. Thank you so much for inviting me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> The pleasure is all mine, Rosary! Come back anytime. </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p>As I watch Rosary drive away, I pick up the lobster pot and retreat into my home for some peace and quiet and to order Once Upon Another Time. </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Some extra Rosary goodies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The sparkling Rosary:</span></div>
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Breathtaking cover:<br />
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are Saying!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book! Rosary McQuestion wrote a captivating novel. She had me from the first
chapter. I could not stop reading it. This novel was interesting, romantic, and
vibrant. I will recommend it to everyone I know!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are multi-layered and believable. Some are so well drawn they are almost
recognizable even in my world."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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romantic…one of those books every woman should read who has gone through grief
and the anguish of loss.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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everything, old love, new love, humor, sadness, mystery, and intrigue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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about grief that will leave you smiling!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-70984306721271164582013-08-08T03:00:00.000-02:302013-08-08T08:39:02.558-02:30My Ghostly chat with the lovely Maer Wilson <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It has been a couple of weeks since I had a guest sitting next to me in my shed of solicitation when the brave and brilliant Simon OKill graced my newly acquired Lazy Boy recliner and chatted about his latest work, but it has been a while since a lovely lady has sat next to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The back of the shed gang are very excited to meet Maer Wilson author of the newly released short story Ghost Memory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I thought that the subject matter would scare the goofs off, but no such luck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Welcome, Maer Wilson, have a seat, would you like a drink?</span></div>
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for the invite, Tina. Hot chocolate would be awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thank you for coming, Maer. Though I have known you for almost a year, these
yahoos are unfamiliar with you, share a little about yourself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
I was younger, I did a lot of stage acting, but left that for the business
world. More recently I’ve been teaching and writing. I’m a pet parent, with two
dog and we live in the high desert of Southern Nevada. I love crafts, but don’t
do as many of those as I used to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I have seen “Ghost Memory”, A Thulukan Chronicles Story on Amazon and I would
love to pick it up, but before I do, could you tell me a little about it?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure thing. Here
is the official blurb:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">La Fi is not
having a normal day. She broke someone’s nose, embarrassed her fiancé, Thulu,
and now a dead guy is on her doorstep. Although seeing the dead is not unusual
for the young medium, since she and Thulu regularly deal with the supernatural.
<span style="background: white; color: black;">Thulu can find anything that's lost
and the amnesiac ghost is missing money, along with his memory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Peter Swanson used to stash money throughout his San
Francisco home. Now he can’t remember his hiding places, and his aging partner
needs the money. That’s not normally a problem for Thulu, but some of the money
is missing from the house. <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Thulu and La Fi</span></span> must broaden
the search for cash long gone, and that could prove tricky in more ways than
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Ghost Memory” is A Thulukan Chronicles Story set in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i> universe. Bonus Material includes
Chapter 1 from the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics, </i>Book
1 of The Thulukan Chronicles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Wow, “Ghost Memory” sounds intriguing, is
there a particular part of the story that you really enjoyed writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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since this is a short story, it’s pretty compact. I did enjoy filling in the
details behind the dojo story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> I was thanking the high power above that the interview was sailing smoothly with no incidents, when Jack, the Back of The Shed gang self elected leader stumbles over and shouts at Maer.</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hey dude,
tell us who your favourite character(s) are!</span><br />
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are not many extra characters in this story, but I must say I adore writing
Thulu and La Fi, since they are the main characters in the series. I also
enjoyed writing Peter Swanson and Donovan Quinn because they were new and it
was fun to discover who they were. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"If “Ghost Memory” were to be optioned for a movie, who do you see playing
your main character(s)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fi - Jennifer Lawrence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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- Chris Hemsworth<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They will be perfect, Maer, I could really see those actors playing those parts.
I was wondering, as a person who writes on the side, during my down time, my
writing process starts with forming the story in my head before I put pen to
paper, what is your writing process like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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write organically. I have a general idea where I want to go, but few details.
My stories are driven by the characters and how they react to the things that
happen to them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p>I feel like I met a kindred spirit, finally someone who writes as I do! </o:p></span></div>
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Terrance looking like he has a little too much of the brown bottle medicine trips over a fishing line and sloshes beer over Maer and rudely asks his question.<br />
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I think I go crawl in a hole now.<br />
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And I wonder why I don't have many guests! *groan*<br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">All of this sounds fascinating but I heard writing is a hell of a lot of
work, why do you do it, what do you get out of it?"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Um,
are you okay?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Maer wipes the beer off her jacket and licks her fingers. I am so glad that she has a great since of humour has I hand her a clean damp cloth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks
for sharing the beer, but not really my choice of beverage. Anyway, to answer
your question, I love telling the stories and visiting the characters in their
world. For me the hard work isn’t the writing or the revising at all. I love
getting into the character’s heads and finding out what comes next.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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boys and let me and Maer have our yarn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Terrance asked you why you like
to write, now I want to ask you, is there anything about writing you don't
like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not about the writing process because I love all of that. But hands down, the
marketing is a big challenge. It takes a lot of time and effort and I’m not at
all sure what works and what doesn’t work yet, since I’m so new. But I’m
learning and hopefully getting better at it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hope they had a good time and enjoyed the book and the characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Do you have any other stories you are currently writing or are planning to
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well,
this is a prequel to the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i>,
which was actually published first. That’s available on <strong>Amazon and Barnes &
Noble. </strong>I also have Book 2 of The Thulukan Chronicles finished and submitted to
my publisher. I’m getting ready to release the second short story prequel in
the “Ghost” set in the next month or so. And I’m working on the third short
story prequel in that set. Also I’m writing Book 3 of the main series. I have
plans to do other short stories in the series and I also have a historical
fantasy that I work on now and then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thanks a million for answering all my
questions…and the others, Maer, it has been a real pleasure. As I said before,
I have seen “Ghost Memory” online at Amazon. Is there anywhere else your book
is available and what formats?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes,
it’s on Kindle at Amazon. It’s also available at Smashwords, so most ebook
formats can be found there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">You
must be frozen solid by now, Maer, my mates have been pretty greedy with the
heat, so I am going to let you go so you can toddle on home and warm up, but
before you go is there anything else you want to add?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank
you so much for having me on today, Tina.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It was my pleasure, Maer. Come back anytime! </span><br />
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As I see Maer to the door and watch her drive off, I let out a deep breath and I'm glad that the interview went off smoothly and was very enjoyable. <br />
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But, then again, that is why Maer Wilson is so lovely, she has a great talent and a wonderful sense of humour!<br />
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Before she left, Maer left me with some extra goodies for you to check out as our time was unfortunately limited. <br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">By Maer Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">La Fi
is not having a normal day. She broke someone’s nose, embarrassed her fiancé,
Thulu, and now a dead guy is on her doorstep. Although seeing the dead is not
unusual for the young medium, since she and Thulu regularly deal with the
supernatural. <span style="background: white; color: black;">Thulu can find
anything that's lost and the amnesiac ghost is missing money, along with his
memory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Peter Swanson used to stash money throughout his
San Francisco home. Now he can’t remember his hiding places, and his aging
partner needs the money. That’s not normally a problem for Thulu, but some of
the money is missing from the house. <span class="apple-converted-space">Thulu
and La Fi</span> must broaden the search for cash long gone, and that could
prove tricky in more ways than one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Ghost Memory” is A Thulukan Chronicles Story set in
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i> universe. Bonus Material includes
Chapter 1 from the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics, </i>Book
1 of <span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Thulukan Chronicles.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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In case you want to know about Maer here is a little more about her:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">After
a successful career being other people, and later teaching others the many
tricks of that trade, Maer Wilson has decided to be herself for a while. Turns
out she's a writer. She's always loved stories, especially fantasy, mystery and
sci fi. Maer was born in the Year of the Dragon and has a dragon-themed room in
her home, but sadly no dragons in the back yard. When she's not writing, Maer
plays online video games, teaches college and reads. She also co-hosts the
literary podcast, “MythBehaving” and writes for two gaming fansites. She lives
in the high desert of Southern Nevada with her two dogs, a chihuahua and a
poodle. Relics is her first novel and is currently available at Amazon and
Barnes & Noble. You can find her new prequel “Ghost Story” at Amazon and
Smashwords. You can visit her website at <a href="http://maerwilson.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://maerwilson.com/</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Maer’s
Website: <a href="http://maerwilson.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://maerwilson.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Facebook:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maer-Wilson-Author/149085628472833"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maer-Wilson-Author/149085628472833</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Maer’s
Twitter:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MaerWilson"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/MaerWilson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Maer
on Pinterest: <a href="http://pinterest.com/maerw/boards/"><span style="color: blue;">http://pinterest.com/maerw/boards/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Ghost
Memory” on Amazon -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Memory-Thulukan-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00E5W1W2Y/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Memory-Thulukan-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00E5W1W2Y/</span></a>
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Memory” on Smashwords - <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/340825"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/340825</span></a></span></div>
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And last but not least for your media hounds out there, her Press Release by publisher Crescent Moon Press:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Press Release info for Relics by Maer Wilson,
published by Crescent Moon Press, 5/1/13<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Press
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<span lang="EN-US">Former actor and Southern Nevada resident
Maer Wilson joined the ranks of published authors on May 1, 2013. Wilson’s
first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i>, is published by
Crescent Moon Press. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i> is a
Contemporary Fantasy that takes place in San Francisco and follows the exploits
of husband and wife detectives, Thulu and La Fi. The couple’s clients are
usually dead, which is fine with them since they work only with the supernatural.
But their simple job to find lost relics for an ancient daemon turns into a
grand adventure when the creatures of myth and magic return to Earth,
confirming that humans are definitely not alone. You can find more information
about Wilson and Relics at <a href="http://maerwilson.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://maerwilson.com/</span></a>
and <a href="http://crescentmoonpress.com/books/Relics.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://crescentmoonpress.com/books/Relics.html</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Book
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<span lang="EN-US">Most of Thulu and La Fi's clients are dead.
Which is perfect since their detective agency caters to the supernatural. So, a
job finding relics for an ancient daemon should be simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The daemon needs the relics to keep a
dangerous portal closed. His enemy, Gabriel, wants the relics to open the
portal and give his people access to a new feeding ground – Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stunning humanity with their existence,
portals to other worlds begin to open and the creatures of magic return to
Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When Gabriel threatens their family, Thulu
and La Fi's search becomes personal. The couple will need powerful allies in
the race to find the relics before Gabriel does. But maybe that's what grateful
dead, magical allies and daemonic clients are for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">When the creatures of myth and magic return to Earth,
they're nothing like your mother's fairy tales.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Maer’s
Bio<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After a successful career being other
people, and later teaching others the many tricks of that trade, Maer Wilson
has decided to be herself for a while. Turns out she's a writer. She's always
loved stories, especially fantasy, mystery and sci fi. Maer was born in the
Year of the Dragon and has a dragon-themed room in her home, but sadly no
dragons in the back yard. When she's not writing, Maer plays online video
games, teaches college and reads. She also co-hosts the literary podcast,
“MythBehaving” and writes for two gaming fansites. She lives in the high desert
of Southern Nevada with her two dogs, a chihuahua and a poodle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i> is her first novel and is
currently available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. You can find her new
prequel “Ghost Story” at Amazon and Smashwords. You can visit her website at
maerwilson.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Praise
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics<o:p></o:p></i></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">"'Relics' is a powerful read which
will challenge long-held perceptions of good vs. evil and Light vs. Dark well
after the book is finished." Diane M. Haynes, author of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Rift Healer</i>, YA finalist in the Gayle
Wilson Award of Excellence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Relics</i>, author Maer
Wilson takes everything you think you know about the creatures of the fantasy
world and twists it around to create a unique and engaging story.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Constance Philips, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Resurrecting Harry </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fairyproof.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">“The perfect paranormal detective, Wilson’s
unique and suspenseful tale pulls you in and doesn’t let go.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean Murray, author of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Soul Awakened </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soul
Reborn</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US">Maer’s
Links</span></u><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Maer’s Website: <a href="http://maerwilson.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://maerwilson.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Maer’s Facebook:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maer-Wilson-Author/149085628472833"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maer-Wilson-Author/149085628472833</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Maer’s Twitter:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MaerWilson"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/MaerWilson</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u>Maer at Pinterest: </u></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://pinterest.com/maerw/boards/"><span style="color: blue;">http://pinterest.com/maerw/boards/</span></a>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Relics</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> at Goodreads:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17767013-relics"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17767013-relics</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Relics</span></i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Paperback at Amazon:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Relics-Maer-Wilson/dp/1939173310/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_E8ZZ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.com/Relics-Maer-Wilson/dp/1939173310/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_E8ZZ</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Relics</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> Kindle at Amazon:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Relics-ebook/dp/B00CLB6HUI/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_DARZ"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.com/Relics-ebook/dp/B00CLB6HUI/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_DARZ</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Relics</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> at Barnes & Noble:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/relics-maer-wilson/1115158495?ean=9781939173317"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/relics-maer-wilson/1115158495?ean=9781939173317</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I must have lost track of time because I
heard a voice say, “You're going to turn into a prune.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Mhmm,” I answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The door opened. A cool draft of air wafted
my way, swirling the steam in the shower. I peeked out to see Thulu shutting
the door behind him. It was a great view.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“So, have I ever mentioned that I'm a soul
reader?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I moved forward to clear the small
waterfall and gave him a suspicious look. One never knew with Thulu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“No, I don't think you've shared that bit
of information.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I'm quite good at it, actually.” He sat on
one of the side seats and motioned to the one across from him. I moved to the
other seat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Nodding, he continued, “I'm quite surprised
you didn't know this. In some circles, I'm known as the Great and Wonderful
Reader of Souls.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm shocked that this could have escaped my
attention all these years.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Well, this is the perfect time for me to
read yours. Being that you're all pruney.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I looked at my hands. They were pretty
pruney. I shrugged and held out my hand palm up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, honestly, love. Not your hand. Give me
your foot.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I giggled. “Okay you meant 'sole' reader.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He nodded. “Absolutely. The lines in the
sole of the foot can tell a lot about a person's future,” he added wisely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Uh-huh, I'll bite.” I lifted my foot and
rested it on his knee. Thulu peered intently at it for a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Aha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I see that tomorrow your adoring husband will let you sleep in and then
cook a wonderful breakfast.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Thulu!” I protested. “You can't predict
things that you can make happen. It doesn’t count.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He looked at me in mock disbelief. “Do you
question the Great and Wonderful Reader of Soles?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I'm just saying it doesn’t count to say
something is going to happen when you know very well you are the one who can
make it happen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Does that mean you don't want breakfast?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I didn't say that.” I backtracked a bit.
“Just that you are making a self-fulfilling prophecy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He ignored me and peered at the bottom of
my foot once again. “I also see in your future –” He looked in my eyes, then
back at my foot. “There's some fog here. No, wait a moment. I don't think it's
fog. I think – yes, I'm sure of it. I see shower steam.” He looked up again,
dimpling at me. “I foresee, in your very near future, fabulous shower sex.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I watched him closely. He raised an
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<span lang="EN-US">“Aren't you going to make a smart-ass
comment about more self-fulfilling prophecies?” he asked innocently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“No, I think I'll just let you fulfill that
prophecy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-41440704868438435882013-06-20T07:00:00.000-02:302013-06-20T09:38:45.896-02:30Simon OKill's Brave Return To The Shed... but this time he brings Vampires! <span style="font-family: inherit;">Looks like the modification to the Shed of Solicitation are working. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not 24 hours since the lovely Ida Jansson graced my abode, I have another guest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or should I say, a return guest, because today my very good friend, Simon OKill was brave enough to risk the humiliation of the Back of The Shed Gang to sit down with me again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gotta love a trouper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Welcome back, Simon Okill, have a seat, as you can see my furniture has
improved since you have been here last. I will not say where I got the Lazy Boy
recliners, let’s just say there was an incident at Jack’s house… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t blame
Phantom Bigfoot, all he did was carry them over here.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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Thank you for coming, Simon and for being so brave to come back here on the
wharf again, so to reward you I am going to let you brag about your latest
work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Luna Sanguis is like no other vampire romp as it delves inside the mind
of a vampire about to be given the ultimate power from a psychiatric POV.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have seen Luna Sanguis on Goodreads and I am going to pick it up, but
before I do, could you tell me a little about it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Well, Tina, our female
protagonist witnesses a horrific slaughter that sends her amnesiac. She is
rescued from those hunting her blood and imprisoned in an asylum where even
worse terrors await her. Only one person can save her, a mere human, from the
ultimate evil out there somewhere seeking her eternal blood.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, Luna Sanguis sounds intriguing, is there
a particular part of the story that you really enjoyed writing? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>The whole
book was a joy. Well more a remembrance to my own torment suffering from PTSD
after an accident that left me disabled, but with every word my torment
diminished, so in some ways I enjoyed shedding my burden. Although I still
suffer flashbacks as you will discover in my book.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May I ask who your favorite character(s) were? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Lucien the evil Count! He is
so over the top nasty that I found it easy to portray him as a monster. Where
that came from I have no idea?</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love the title of your new novel Luna Sanguis - may I ask how did you come up
with the name? – </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Our close friend Travis Luedke and I spent a few hours
searching for an appropriate name not done before and voila! Thanks for
eternity Travis.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It is a beautiful cover, who designed it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The incredible Ida Jansson of Amygdaladesign - </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://amygdaladesign.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://amygdaladesign.net/</span></a> Again Travis put me in touch with Ida.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What inspired the story line? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> My love
for vampires, we have one in our little home – our cat -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she hisses, spits, growls and draws blood
with her fangs.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hear you, Simon. I have a little vampire at home too, except he wears pull-ups, likes to climb the walls, doesn't sleep at night, bites and can suck the filling out of a ice cream, leaving the shell. He is not old enough for blood yet. </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">He also calls a vampire Daddy... though I do not know how that happened....</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I look up and see Simon looking at me kind of strangely, maybe thinking I am about to fall off my Lazy Boy recliner; but I shake my head and return to reality. </span></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you have any writing advice for new authors? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> If I can do it – then so can
you!<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is next for you? </span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Luna Aeturnus is part 2 and almost complete. </span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That will
be followed by SS-Steppenwolf based on the exploits of Himmler’s IOW unit – you
know th</span></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ose guys in Raiders of the Lost Ark that dug up half of Africa as they
search for the ultimate fighting machine. </span></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After that we will be inflicting
Bigfoot part 2 upon the unsuspecting literary world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please tell my audience five interesting facts about yourself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>I sleep on the
left side of the bed </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>I am a vegetarian </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>I am short for my size which makes
me short </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> my feet are big for my size – and you know what they say about guys
with big feet?<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> This last response results in a very loud "Wooooo hoo! Damn straight man, I have big feet too!" from somewhere behind the shed's closed door.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I stop my urge to open the door and knock who was on the other side interrupting my nice visit with Simon on their arse.</span></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank
you again for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come and visit me
again in my little shed. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and the quiet…
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>You are always welcome! You’re welcome too Tina. You see how well behaved I can
be without beer. That’s done it. I want beer! Let’s party! Woowoooowooooo!<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>I
give you my best wishes! <o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p>I laugh as Simon grabs a beer from the cooler and rushes out the door, knocking Terrance flat on his rear. </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p>Another reason why I adore Simon!! </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Before my Bigfoot ran out of here he handed me these extra goodies to share with you:</span></div>
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SANGUIS BY SIMON OKILL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Paris 1925. A young woman is nearing her Eternal Vampire state as
her birthday approaches. She is held captive by the hybrid vampire she created
and slowly drained of her pure blood to keep his addiction in check. She
outwits him and escapes to a chateau in the hope of reaching maturity. But he
follows her unmistakable scent and massacres all that dare protect his supply
of Eternal blood.<br />
She awakens in a tiny room trapped and defenceless with amnesia, but something
deep in her subconscious yearns to be set free by the next full moon – the date
of her Eternal Birthday.<br />
Her true self, Eternal, emerges in brief flashes of awareness to protect her
from the horrors of this terrifying prison. Desperate, she forges an alliance
with her true love, a gorgeous young doctor treating her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
But her nemesis is out there somewhere, relishing the hunt for her blood – and
nothing will stop him from becoming Eternal. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Author Simon Okill:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">MY BIO:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I live with my wife, Shirlee Anne and our cat, in a pretty coastal
town in South Wales, UK. We both love Stephen King and had read many of his
books and enjoyed their transition to the screen. Due to our love of books, my
wife and I dabbled in writing for some years as a hobby. We were approached by
a film company to write a paranormal TV series. We struggled most nights and
all through weekends to come up with 22 episodes only for the company to go
bust. Then after an accident at work, I was forced into early retirement due to
disability. I used my newfound skills as a writer to help with my depression.
We decided to use our TV series episodes as templates for film scripts and
novels. My writing became more serious as certain A-list actors expressed
interest in my scripts and my debut novel Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot
Babe was accepted by Christopher Matthews Publishing after so many British
publishers turned it down.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Bigfoot Episode 2 – </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">it’s a secret!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Luna Aeturnus </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is the</span></strong> sequel to Luna Sanguis and
will be ready for release this Autumn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">S<strong>S-steppenwolf </strong></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">is a supernatural retelling of WWII involving the Occult Warfare
department run by Himmler.<strong> Think Indiana Jones searching for a
werewolf.</strong><br />
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Scripts: <br />
<br />
<strong>‘Flip Side’</strong> is one of my most exciting screenplays to date
with its unusual slant on a supernatural gangster story that encompasses music
and dynamic dance sequences to portray the action. The script has been optioned
by Tasha Bertram of Brodie Films and Stuart St Paul has come on board to direct
and co produce this fascinating piece of work. <br />
<br />
<strong>‘Nightmare Circus’</strong> is a supernatural revenge mystery script
set in the Australian outback. <br />
<br />
<strong>‘Dark House’</strong> is set in Massachusetts, US, where a lonely
female artist must overcome her agoraphobia to escape from three kidnappers
holed up in a house haunted by a witch finder’s hanging tree. <br />
<br />
<strong>‘Circus of Blood’</strong> is a horror script set in Rome AD79 where
two citizens go on a dangerous quest to kill a brutal serial killer. Their
adventures end in Pompeii.<br />
<br />
<strong>‘Hunter’s Moon’</strong> is a contemporary supernatural western script
set on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.<br />
<br />
<strong>The Last Warlord</strong> is set during WWII and tells of Major Stewart
of MI6 who must find the Nazi’s secret Atlantis base in Antarctica or the
entire world will be doomed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Luna Sanguis is set in Paris and the French countryside June 1925.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Delicate Rose is a young woman nearing her Eternal Vampire state
as her 19<sup>th</sup> birthday approaches. She was born on June 6<sup>th</sup>,
1906 at precisely 6am during the zenith of the Eternal Moon. And in 4 days time
the Eternal Moon shall shine once more to bring forth Eternal, a vampire so
powerful, nothing can stop her. But, she is held captive by the brutal hybrid
vampire, Lucien. He is a Suckling due to his heightened addiction to an Eternal’s
blood and only by taking all her blood after the eternal making will he be set
free. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All his young life Lucien
has enjoyed inflicting pain on his Delicate Rose. It’s his way of showing his
twisted love for her. He really can’t help himself for on the night he read his
vampire’s bible - Dracula, Lucien became possessed by the devious demon, The
Count, hiding amongst the book’s pages. And The Count needs to become Eternal
so he may cause chaos and destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With just 36 hours to
go, Delicate Rose escapes her garret prison in Paris. Now the blood hunt is on.
The Count Lucien and his two other Suckling Vampires track down her
unmistakeable scent, but each time she escapes with the help of a stranger who
will become her true love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Count leaves a
trail of corpses as his rage boils over. Where is his Delicate Rose? Having
slaughtered all her friends at a chateau, his former home of all places, Lucien
is left confused. He can no longer sense her fear. She has vanished. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eternal wakes up in a
tiny prison-style room with no name, no memory at all. Something stirs in her subconscious.
Something otherworldly yearns to be set free by the next full moon – the date
of her Eternal Birthday, just 24 hours away. Can she survive long enough for
the final transformation? Her only hope is Edouard, her designated true love
and psychiatrist treating her. But the more memories that surface the stronger
Eternal becomes and yet she must depend on her true love for her very existence
for out there somewhere, He is relishing the hunt for her blood – and nothing
will stop him from becoming Eternal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Evil Count Lucien and Eternal:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lucien
approached with his sword, smiling as she backed away in fear. Her eyes widened
as he slashed his forearm with the blade and offered his blood to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Come on ... this is what you’ve been
waiting for.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The effect of his blood was immediate.
Even Lucien jumped with shock as she pounced and sucked on the wound with wild
abandon. She sighed and moaned as she drank her first human blood. Lucien’s
eyes rolled up in their sockets as he felt the tingle of an orgasm. The dark
music he had grown to love was so sweet, so mesmerising, he felt at home. He
had finally allowed her to fulfil her birthright and it was wonderful. It was
better than sex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Eternal’s True-Love:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Edouard was
transfixed by her large lustrous eyes of burnt umber. It was a colour that
radiated an allure both enticing and at the same time something dark and foreboding.
He gasped, as the feeble light cascading from the window caused her eyes to
change colour to pitch-black, like a cat as it sensed the kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edouard shuddered as she spoke to him
without moving her lips – “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we are
eternal,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my true love</i>.” His mind
went numb with shock at hearing that word from his dreams. He began to tremble
with excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am for you.” That was all he could say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Vampire
Sucklings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Over the next
few weeks Claudette had become insatiable for blood and sex, the two usually
going together like strawberries and cream. Jacques couldn’t risk any more
exsanguinations at the rampant hands of Claudette or he’d end up at the morgue.
He showed her how to entice the wandering adventurers who clambered for action
at the city’s roughest areas and spike their drinks with the voodoo white
stolen from a Bokor who had the misfortune to cross Jacques’ path. When they
had enough, both booked passage to Marseilles. Oh, one more thing, Jacques had
named his voodoo white - Forbidden Kiss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Eternal trapped
in the asylum:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Eternal wanted
to scream, but she was so dry with fear her tongue was stuck to the roof of her
mouth. She looked desperately around the small room, breathing frantically. Her
head swam with terrifying visions of bloody and torn bodies, screams of death
and those leather-clad legs. She tried to understand what was happening to her,
but couldn’t. The screams of ravens pecked at her sanity. Tears ran down her
face as her other name eluded her. Nothing surfaced except sheer terror, a
terror which had stripped her of her very existence. She convulsed. Nothing
came up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-43601526198873681062013-06-18T18:16:00.001-02:302013-06-18T18:16:51.951-02:30My intriquing interview with Graphic Artist: Ida Jansson <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been months since the last guest graced the shed of solicitation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe it was because they had nothing to sit on but a milk crate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe it was because the annoying interruptions from the back of the shed gang or maybe it was because the shed is looking a little drab lately.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I figure it is a combination of all reasons, so I changed things up a bit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I replaced the milk crates with two nice Lazy Boy rockers, where I got them I will not say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have banned the back of the shed gang from all guest interviews until further notice. Though I do not think they are going to listen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have decorated the shed with lovely curtains and some art work designed by a most talented Digital Artist and Graphic Designer, Ida Jansson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have invited the talent and all around sweet and very friendly Ida to sit with me, admire her work and tell us all about her fabulous self. </span><br />
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like something to drink?</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Yes please, maybe hot chocolate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Certainly, here you go. Be careful though, it is very hot and I do want you to damage those gifted hands! </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thank you for coming, Ida, please
tell those people listening at the door who do not think I know they are
listening at the door, what is it that you do?</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I`m a Digital Artist and Graphic
Designer, working in my own company, Amygdala Design. The company specialize in
design of book covers, but also offers other services such as book trailers and
promo images.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">May ask what got you first interested in designing book
covers?</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had photo manipulation and
digital painting as a hobby for 3 years, and have been sharing some of my work
on places such as DeviantArt. In October 2012 I was contacted by author Ellie
Garratt, asking if I would be interested in designing her covers for her two
short story collections “Passing Time” and “Taking Time”. Of course I said yes,
and after that the ball started rolling! Now I am making book covers full time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am listening carefully to Ida when I hear a knocking noise on the window, I look to my left and see Jack with his face to the window, pointing to his Lazy Boy rockers and letting loose a string of muffled curses. I immediately shut the curtains closed and return to Ida. </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Sorry about that Ida. Now, where were we? Oh yes. </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">How long have you been interested in art and design?</span></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I actually have a bachelor degree in
Biomedical Science, so 3 years ago, my original plan was to work in a hospital.
But then I discovered digital art, and ended up spending all my free time on
that. I feel so lucky that I get to have my favourite hobby as my job now!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">What is the most interesting thing about your career?</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the fact that I get to work with
books and authors on a daily basis. I love to read, and I am really impressed
by all the wonderful authors out there. Working with both aspiring and
established authors is so inspiring, and I love that I can play a small part in
their careers as writers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I smile at this lovely woman's humble attitude. In fact, as I am sure many authors agree, cover design is far from a small part, it is a major part. After all, in my opinion, a book could contain within it the most perfect masterpiece of our time, but if the cover is bland and it does not catch anyone's eye, then this masterpiece will probably be wasted. </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Have you met anyone famous? (If you have not who would you
like to meet?)</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not really, the chance of bumping into
an international celebrity here in Norway is really slim. I would love to meet
some of the big authors like J.K Rowling. I would also love to meet Misha
Collins ;)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">If you were not a designer what other
path do you believe you would have chosen?</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess I would be working as a
Biomedical Scientist, maybe in medical research. I also have a secret dream of
writing a book someday, maybe a dystopian novel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the favorite part of your career? What is the least
favorite?</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I love the process of making a book
cover! I especially like the part when I start to see how the end result will
be like </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> What I
don`t like is dealing with budgets, taxes and payments. If I could I would
definitely hire someone to do that for me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I always have multiple projects going
on at the same time. For example, this week I am making 5 book covers for 3
different authors, banners, promo images and several trailers. I really enjoy
the variety in my work.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- I have a 7 year old dog (Flat Coated
Retriever) who sleeps in bed between me and my significant other every night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- I have danced ballet for 10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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Big Bang Theory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- I am 25% Swedish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- I always listen to music when I
design book covers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">If you can live in any part of the world where would it be?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I would actually choose Norway.
It`s a very safe, wealthy and beautiful country. But I would love to explore
the US some time as well, especially New York. I also love Paris!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tell me a little something about the creative process of
your work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When making a new book cover, I always
read the authors description of the story one or two days before I start
designing. That way I can have it in the back of my mind while I do other
things, and I often get an idea of how I want to do the cover before I start.
Since I work with stock images as a base, I often build upon or change the
ideas when I browse for stocks and see what is available. Then I try putting
different stocks together to see what works. Sometimes I only use a few stocks,
other times I can use elements from 7-10 different images on the cover. Then I
put everything together using Photoshop, followed by tweaking of colors,
contrast etc. Finally I add digital painting to make the elements work
together, and to make the cover stand out. The typography is also an important
part of the cover, and I often use a long time experimenting before I get the
look that I want.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thank you for coming and telling me and my impromptu
audience about yourself and your exciting career, is there anything else you
like to add?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></b></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for having me, and I welcome
everyone to have a look at my website!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Website: <a href="http://www.amygdaladesign.net/" target="_blank">http://www.amygdaladesign.net/</a></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Facebook:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amygdala-Art/302917036483121">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amygdala-Art/302917036483121</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/AmygdalaArt">https://twitter.com/AmygdalaArt</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Goodreads:
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14349847-ida-jansson">http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14349847-ida-jansson</a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Here are the lovely art works that I hang in the shed:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the back of the shed gang are like children(no wait, that is an insult to children) I wanted to step outside of my usual adult content reading and pick up the latest from one of the greatest, Diane Major and her brand spanking new series designed for those who have a license to act like children, because, they <i>are</i> children. </span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diane was scheduled to come by the shed of solicitation but the plane that she was on took a wrong turn, and instead of taking her to this most easterly point of North America, took her to Caroline Island, in the Pacific ocean. So why she relaxes on one of the most pristine tropical islands Mother Nature has to offer, I have the pleasure of introducing book one of her children's series for her. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sports Day<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna shouted at her son,
“Why did you do that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told you that
you couldn’t!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason was
twelve years old, had short brown hair and soft brown eyes. The boy was
decidedly fed up, and was only too aware that he had never been allowed to take
part in Sports Day at School. Well, that was at least for the past five years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mason couldn’t actually remember anything
before he reached his sixth birthday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fact he
wasn’t allowed to take part in the Sports Day at School just wasn’t fair; he
knew how good he was at all sports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Are you
listening to me Mason,” Anna said angrily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Aw mom,”
Mason responded in a deflated tone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason was
thinking about how his Mom never let him play with other children when he was
at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to stay in and play on
his computer, or tablet. It was all so very boring. The only time he could show
off was in the play yard, when he would race the other children and always
win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those times he played football
in the yard, he was the star who scored all the goals. So, Mason had always
been frustrated about his Mom never letting him take part in the Sports Day, when
all his friends did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">This year
had been different. Mason decided not to tell his Mom it was Sports Day and he
entered all the competitions as did most of his closest friends. He knew if he
asked his Mom, she would simply stop him. She would, as always, write a note to
the school insisting that he did not take part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mom’s excuse was always that he would make himself ill, but Mason knew
that wasn’t true. He had played rough games, ran races, and took part in ball games
with his friends during sports lessons, and in the school yard. During all his
years at this school he had never even had a cough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Mason, I
have told you, you will make yourself poorly doing all that running around,”
stated his Mom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason
looked up at his Mom with his soft brown eyes narrowed and said abruptly,
“That’s not true!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I run about and win
everything in sports lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
time I get to show off is at the Sports Day and you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i></b> let me compete.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s for
your own good. Besides, if you’re ill I have to lose work,” his Mom replied
sheepishly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason
noticed that her cheeks had gone a colourful shade of pink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Be a good
boy Mason and go to your room while I finish tea,” said Anna trying to change
the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason
dropped his shoulders and lowered his head as he thumped up the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On reaching the top of the stairs he turned
and shouted for Bess. Bess was his best friend at home. In fact, he couldn’t
remember ever not having Bess. A bouncier, black and white cocker spaniel
didn’t exist. Bess of course responded in a second and came hurtling up the
stairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna
shouted, “And don’t you let her on your bed. She leaves hair everywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason
thought, “Whatever,” as Bess followed him into the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">As soon as
the two friends were inside, Mason closed the door shut and slumped on the
bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bess sat looking at him with her
huge, droopy, dark brown eyes, those eyes that flickered with orange when she
got annoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cocker spaniel’s
beautiful black and white face was pleading for the comfort of his bed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Come on
girl, you know I love yeah to bits.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bess didn’t
have to be told twice. She jumped onto the bed and enthusiastically licked
Mason’s face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I know
girl. It’s awful having to stay here all day on your own. Not to worry, its
Saturday tomorrow, so we will have the whole weekend together.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bess wagged
her black and white tail, and licked Mason again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In due
course, Anna shouted Mason down for his tea. Mason and Bess bounced downstairs
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally, after tea, Mason
would tell his Mom about his day. Because he had disobeyed her, and joined in
the Sports Day, it was time to disappear and head for his room. Mason slipped
up the stairs with Bess tracking his every move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At nine o’clock Anna looked into the room and
sighed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mason was fast asleep with Bess
cuddled in tight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">As soon as
Anna woke up the next day, she called for Bess, and let her outside. Anna put
the kettle on for her morning brew and let the spaniel come back in. When Anna
held her cup of hot, refreshing tea, she sat at the kitchen table, and opened
the local morning newspaper. Anna couldn’t believe her eyes. There on the front
page was a picture of Mason crossing the finishing line at Sports Day. The
article said that her son had excelled in every race. She could feel her face
distort and her heart began to bang. This was the last thing she needed. The
damage was done! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna had
kept Mason a secret for five long years and all she could do was hope no one
from their past discovered the article. If anyone found out then they would all
be on the run. Anna sighed and decided to carry on as usual. After all, what
would be the point of creating a fuss if no one saw the story in the newspaper?
She prepared scrambled eggs on toast and gave Mason a shout.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">After a few
minutes, Mason was at the bottom of the stairs, and then arrived in the
kitchen. Anna pointed to the paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mason ran over with a huge smile spreading across his face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“See Mom, I
told you how good I am. The man from the paper said he was going to use my
photograph, but he didn’t say it would be on the front page,” Mason said
excitedly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna looked
despondent and replied, “Yes, I know how good you are, but you must never do it
again. I hope no one puts two and two together.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anna looked
from Bess to Mason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Why, Mom?
It’s great; I want the whole world to know how good I am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s not
that straight forward. Promise me you won’t do anything like this again,” said
Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason
kicked the air and looked at the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I mean it
Mason. You have no idea what kind of trouble this might cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bess sat
looking at Mason, her tail never moved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mason’s
face hardened and he said sadly, “OK Mom, but I don’t understand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the time is right, I promise, I’ll explain.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-600060124375375102013-03-01T06:00:00.000-03:302013-03-01T06:00:00.222-03:30The Nightlife and Travis LuedkeThe back of the shed gang are scared of vampires, so I finally have sometime to myself to relax and read.<br />
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On my way home I picked up two books that focus on my favourite supernatural beings, vampires.<br />
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Both books are by one of my favourite vampire authors, Travis Luedke, The Nightlife series.<br />
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The first one is the first of the series, The Nightlife New York and the second is The Nightlife: Las Vegas.<br />
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This series follows the adventures and sometimes misadventures of a stunning and alluring blond bombshell vampire, Michelle and her vampire creation companion, Aaron as they travel the globe.<br />
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But first lets look at how it all began, on the dark and dangerous streets of New York city.<br />
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THE NIGHT LIFE: NEW YORK<br />
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This synopsis was provided by another source because let's face it, being a gal who loves her detail, my synopsis would have ended up being a novel in itself!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>• Title: </b>The Nightlife New York (Book #1 in The Nightlife Series)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• <b>Author:</b> Travis Luedke</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span id="freeText16085934283437787660">Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, gangs, pimps and corrupt cops, the Nightlife of New York is never boring.<br /><br />Is she a beautiful blond guardian angel as he imagined, or something else entirely? When Michelle saves Aaron's life she shares the benefits of her blood (after getting him shot accidentally). He awakes a changed man, living in a purgatory of eternal night, never to see the sunrise again.<br /><br />Michelle drags Aaron through a hardcore learning curve of vampiric slavery. Forced to adapt to servitude, Aaron is subject to her authority of compulsion. She orders him around like a puppet on a string, a dog on a very short leash. First things first, he must learn to feed properly without creating bloodslaves (humans addicted to the powerful drug-like effect of their venomous bite).<br /><br />And then she puts him to work-a male escort in the sex trade-same as Michelle. Aaron walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments and intensely erotic sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of his new master. It's do or die, Michelle vows to eliminate him if he proves too difficult to control. The real kicker-amidst all these shocking and degrading adjustments, Aaron finds he's falling in love.<br /><br />Can he maintain and keep a sliver of his humanity intact? Innocence is a luxury few can afford in the decadent nightlife of New York. In a world where sex, blood, and power over women is so readily accessible, Aaron struggles against the predatory instincts deeply rooted in his new psyche. He must find his way quickly, practicing rigid self-control, or risk the consequences of Michelle's wrath.</span></span></div>
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MY REVIEW: 4 out 5 stars.</div>
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First, a warning. Travis Luedke The Nightlife series is not for the faint of heart who like their tales to revolve around lollypops, unicorns, prince and princesses. </div>
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Aaron is a shy, timid young man who works as a waiter at a family restaurant living an ordinary life when he witnesses two crooked cops attempt to assault a stunning blond. </div>
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The blond is much more than her beauty though when she fights back against her attackers with the speed, the agility and strength of someone twice her size, in fact, her skill almost seems, <i>inhuman.</i> </div>
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However, during the fight, Aaron accidentally gets shot and falls to the ground, his life bleeding onto the street. </div>
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When the blond bombshell defeats her attackers and sees Aaron lying on the street, she is faced with a dilemma Should she save his life or walk away and let him die?</div>
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The rest of the book is a fast paced tale of not only Aaron coping with being a vampire and adjusting to his new immorality and powers, but knowing how to be a slave to his new mistress. </div>
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The vampire, Michelle, can hear his every thought and control his every move which Aaron finds, naturally, frustrating and violating but soon finds himself falling in love with Michelle and enjoying his new status. </div>
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Aaron feels her distress and rushes to her aid, killing both crooked cops(this was a stand up and cheer moment for me!) while badly injuring the accomplice the cops were blackmailing. </div>
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I became so enthralled in this story that I did not realize I was at the end until it came up and surprised me, leaving me feel disappointed and anxious for Book #2. </div>
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There was only one tiny flaw with this story. Michelle is french and Travis spelled out her accent within the dialogue, writing how she pronounces english words with her native tongue, though it was necessary for the plot for Michelle's speech to be written like this, I found this distracting becoming confused as to what she was trying to say. Though it did not take away from the story line and the exciting action. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Okay, I confess, I am obsessed with the world of vampires, so much so that I aspire to be one. I like them in all sorts of ways,including the sparkly ones!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Travis Luedke immersed me in the world of sexy, blond and french Michelle and otherworldly beautiful and passionate Aaron, and hooked me from the start. I fell in love with the stunning, but damaged Ana who finally found peace, love and happiness with the vampire duo; who loved her so much that I did not mind that they fed of her and had toe curling, bone melting, wild animalistic threesome with her! The intrigue of the seedy backdoors of the Las Vegas Nightlife with drug dealers, high rolling gambling and wrestling in a kid favourite dessert kept my heart pounding and on the edge of my seat through each breathtaking page turn.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">In my opinion, the true test of a really great book is it involves all my emotions, allows me to dive into the world with the characters in such a way that they seem real and make me love them long after I close the cover, with tears in my eyes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I highly recommend this novel, this series from this highly talented Travis Luedke.</span><br />
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Tina Power Traversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16380331321776575603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943559882860382642.post-85044749390885438602013-02-28T09:34:00.000-03:302013-02-28T09:34:23.642-03:30Interview with Phantom Bigfoot: Simon O'kill It has been a week since my last face to face interview with an author and the mysterious vase of red roses and the note from my secret admirer that left the lingering scent of old spice behind and me daydreaming of who he may be.<br />
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However, I had to put that mystery aside and prepare for the arrival of my next guest.<br />
Another man(or is it creature?) of mystery: PHANTOM BIGFOOT.<br />
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Funny, how I look at the back of the shed gang; Terrance, Jack, Frank(where is Gerard? Weird.) drinking beer and telling off colour jokes, how they were afraid to step anywhere near the shed after the talk of werewolves and vampires, but apparently a creature that is called Phantom Bigfoot does not phase them.<br />
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Moments after I made sure all refreshments were prepared and my newly purchased milk crates were in place, a big rap came to the door, shaking the whole shed.<br />
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I open the door and welcome, Phantom Bigfoot a.k.a Simon O'kill<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Welcome, Simon Okill aka Phantom
Bigfoot. Please have a seat, sorry that it is not more comfy, but a poor
fishing season has forced me to reduce my furniture to two milk crates, but I
have plenty of refreshments, care to have one?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">“A crate is a luxury in my cave, Tina ... but a cool beer
will help the words flow.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Ffffshhhhh! </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">“Ah that tastes real good.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Slurp! Burp!</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Thank you for coming, Simon, or is it
Phantom Bigfoot now? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"Simon will do just fine, Tina.”</span></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> Though I have known you for only a
short time, it seems like years, but these yahoos are unfamiliar with you, so share
a little about yourself. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"It all started a long, long, long time ago when
Twitter was just a twinkle in the internet’s eye. I always had a weird sense of
humour and a vivid imagination and as I trudged through the forests of my mind
I wondered if there was more to life than just work – work – work.” </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><i>Slurp!
Burp! Clatter of empty beer can on floor. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">"Then I had an accident that left me
disabled. I had more time on my hands than I could have possibly imagined. My
wife and I have always enjoyed reading Stephen King and Dean Koontz and thought
it would be great to try dabbling with the keyboards. As my depression worsened
my writing got better. How weird is that?” </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span><i>Simon grabs another can of beer and
opens it. Slurp! Burp</i>! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> "Hey b'y, watch it with the beers will ya, they are not cheap!" Frank warned, scowling. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <i>Simon did not seem to notice as he sat back a little further and enjoyed his beer, continuing with his life story.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> “And as my writing got better my depression diminished. I
love animals and hate hunting and one totally crazy night after watching Twin
Peaks – the one where David Duchovny is a transvestite FBI agent – and Super
Troopers, it hit me like a thunderbolt. The rest is history as it unfolds.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">I have seen <b>Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe</b> on <a href="http://tassyoneill.wix.com/the-phantom-bigfoot" target="_blank">http://tassyoneill.wix.com/the-phantom-bigfoot </a>and I would love to pick it up,
but before I do, could you tell me a little about it? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>I had to wait as Simon
drank more beer. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">“<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Well, Tina, my book is a gross-out sophomoric-style funfest
where nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be.”</span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>I frowned for
a moment and wondered just how bonkers Simon really is. But the back of the shed gang were loving him, must be because he is catering to their maturity level. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“It’s an adult comedy
romance and the lead character, Duane, has millions with nearly every woman in
Big Beaver lusting after him, except Sheriff Louise Jessop. He gets free beer
and food every day, but all he wants out of life is to look after his tribe of
Bigfoot. To keep his beloved Bigfoot friends safe he dresses up as the Phantom
Bigfoot to lure hunters, his best friend MB the crypto-zoologist and tourists away
from the real deal at the risk of his own life. He has the scars to prove it.
Dumbass!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, <b>Nobody Loves
a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe </b>sounds intriguing, is there a particular part of
the story that you really enjoyed writing? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“What a difficult question, Tina?” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Long slurp! Simon grabs another can. Ffffshhhh! Slurp! </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Possibly the most
stupid scene in the entire book is where FBI Agents Johnson and Merlot visit
Walt the plumber in his spaceship. They interrogate Walt floating free in a hot
tub. They get more than they bargained for. So does the reader.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Slurp! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Wooowooowoooo.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>I am starting feel tempted to cut Simon off the cold stuff, he is becoming a little too buzzed. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <i>Jack, wanders over, though enjoying Simon's entertaining yarn, is wondering just where Simon’s
marbles are, interjects and asks, </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">"Hey dude, tell us who your favourite
character is!" </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Simon stares at Jack for a long time, frowning</i>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Where did
he come from?” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Simon tosses a can to Jack. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Duane-o the no-brain-o is my
favourite guy. He loves animals to the point he’d die saving them. He’s every
woman’s dream in bed.” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Simon winked at me. I giggled<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">. </span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“He doesn’t care how he
looks or what Beaverite’s think of him and is the perfect guy to have a beer
with and shoot the breeze.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Sorry about this, but Jack's question brought another
question to light, If <b>Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe</b> were to be
optioned for a movie, who do you see playing your main characters?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Duane would be either Matthew McConaughey
or James Roday – Sheriff Louise Jessop would be either Kate Hudson or Maggie
Lawson. Agent Willis Johnson would be Timothy Olyphant and Chief Mockingbird
aka MB would be Joseph Gordon-Levitt.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">They would be perfect, Simon, I could really see those
actors playing those parts. I was wondering, as a person who writes on the
side, during my down time, my writing process starts with forming the story in
my head before I put pen to paper, what is your writing process like?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i> I waited
as Simon finished off another can. Burp!</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“Pretty weird really, Tina. I start
off writing a screenplay – all visuals. Then I’ll go off on a tangent and just
change everything after a dream showed another way. I’ll wake up in the middle
of the night, rush downstairs and rewrite it. The next morning it often looks
as though an alien has been at my computer. Somehow I manage to get through the
turmoil and anguish and complete the book.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> I will not call that weird, Simon, just, ah, unique. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> <i>Terrance staggers over to us from a dark shadow,
nearly falling into Simon’s lap, spilling some of his lager on him</i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Simon
laughs </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“I never mix my drinks. Where’s the beer. More beer!” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Terrance asks, “All
of this sounds fascinating but I heard writing is a hell of a lot of work, why
do you do it, what do you get out of it?" </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>Simon drinks from another can
with a smack of his lips. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“I do it because I love it ... because it stops me
going all-the-way nuts ... it helps keep my depression at bay by stepping into
another world of my own creation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> Thanks for the awkward segue, Terrance, now go over
with the rest of the b'ys and let me and Simon have our yarn. Terrance asked
you why you like to write, now I want to ask you, is there anything about
writing you don't like? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“The years of rejection were pretty hard to swallow,
but deep down I knew I’d get there if I kept at it and I did. Marketing is very
hard work and needs so much attention that it forces a compromise on the
writing schedule. At first marketing was way out of my comfort zone and upset
me ... but then I wouldn’t have met you Tina.” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>I blushed.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">When you write, what is it that you hope your readers
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“I guess a little piece of me, my sense of humour,
my different style of writing, the hidden messages and hopefully my readers
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> Do you have any other stories you are currently writing
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“My work in progress is Eternally Yours, a different
kind of romantic vampire book as it is mostly set in an asylum in rural France,
1925. A woman is traumatised by a shocking mass murder. She wakes up in a
prison-like room with no idea who or where she is. A young psychiatrist slowly
wrenches her memories to the surface with devastating results. Then there’s
SSteppenwolf based on real life events of WWII. Oh and I’ve started Bigfoot 2
as part of an ongoing serial.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"> Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the
others, Simon, it has been a real pleasure. As I said before, I have seen
<b>Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe</b> online at <a href="http://tassyoneill.wix.com/the-phantom-bigfoot" target="_blank">http://tassyoneill.wix.com/the-phantom-bigfoot </a>is there anywhere else your book is available and what formats?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">Other sites where my book can be found are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><a href="http://www.authorsden.com/simondokill" target="_blank">http://www.authorsden.com/simondokill</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><a href="http://goodreads.com/tassyoneill" target="_blank">http://goodreads.com/tassyoneill</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;">You must be frozen solid by now, Simon, my mates have been
pretty greedy with the heat, so I am going to let you go so you can toddle on
home and warm up, but before you go is there anything else you want to add?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“I thoroughly enjoyed this chat, Tina. And yes the cold is
creeping into these old bones, but my body hair helps. The beer has had an
effect too, so I’ll rush this last bit if you don’t mind. My book has also been
voted top of three Goodreads lists – British Fantasy Authors – Amazon
Breakthrough Novels – Fantasy Creature Feature Books and has had two 5* reviews
on Amazon. Oh one last thing.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><i>I got a big Bigfoot hugnkiss from Simon. As Simon left the shed he turned, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">we’ll have to do this again, some time, Tina.”</span> <i>The Phantom
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I cannot tell you how many times I have had Jack come to my door in the shed and snot and blubber his way through a secret that he had been keeping buried deep inside of him for hours. </div>
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However, today in my shed, I am going to slide the cloth off a very seductive and alluring bombshell. </div>
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I hear the hoots and the hollers of my back of the shed gang as they verbalize their excitement. </div>
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They are so excited that they are bouncing off the walls like Tigger on Red Bull. </div>
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I am slipping and sliding the cloth of a brand new novel for Milly Taiden <b>CAGED HEAT </b>due out in March, 2013. </div>
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However, since Milly could not grace us with her magnificent presence here in the shed of solicitation she granted me the privilege to introduce her cover to the world!</div>
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First, let's get to know a little bit about the sultry author:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Want to know about me? Milly Taiden (aka April Angel) was born in the prettiest part of the Caribbean known as the Dominican Republic. She grew up between New York, Florida and Massachusetts. Currently, she resides in New York City with her husband, bossy young son and their little dog Speedy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">She’s addicted to shopping for shoes, chocolate (but who isn’t?) and Dunkin Donuts coffee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A bookworm when she can get her hands on a good story, she loves reading all Mina Carter, Cynthia Eden, and Dianne Duvall among others.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I groan and continue walking to our town's most majestic and oldest historical site, <i>Flushing Castle</i>, erected during the early 17 century by Prince Flushing Singleton(hmm, I wonder if he and Danielle, my last guest, are related?) for himself and his bride Nancy the Yeller.(Not even going to ask how she got that name!) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> It is now a boarding house, and is where my next shed of solicitation guest is staying while on vacation, Scott Bartlett, a Newfoundland born and bred author. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Welcome, Scott have a seat, I have since moved up in the world since my milk crates, I now how <i>real</i> chairs! I have plenty of refreshments, care to have one?" </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Well, I’ve wanted to be a novelist since grade nine, and I’ve been writing fiction that long too, though I didn’t complete a book until high school. I also blog about the environment, and various other topics. I’m from Paradise, and I’m currently living in St. John’s."</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I have seen <i>Royal Flush </i>on my favourite website <b>Amazon.ca </b>and I would love to pick it up, but before I do, could you tell me a little about it?"</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Absolutely! It’s about a Kingdom that has the misfortune of being governed by an individual known only as the King. He’s terrible at being King, and he’s also terrible with women, though not for lack of trying. The novel’s divided into four parts, and in each one he screws up spectacularly with another woman."</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Wow,<i> Royal Flush </i>has not only a unique and funny title, but the plot sounds incredible! Is there a particular part of the story that you really enjoyed writing?"</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"There’s one part where the King’s castle falls under siege, and he has to defend it with just his royal fiddler, while trying to steal his royal fiddler’s girlfriend. The story’s depravity reaches new lows during that, so of course I had a fine time writing it."</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Sorry about that, but Jack's question brought another question to light, If <i>Royal Flush </i> were to be optioned for a movie, who do you see playing your main characters?"</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Great question! Ian McShane would make a good King, I think, though he would have to somewhat mask that natural intelligence he gives off. Sean Bean would play Sir Forsythe well—the noble knight with multiple professions. And I’m sure Johnny Depp could pull off Frederick (the royal fiddler) nicely."</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"They will be perfect, Scott! I could really see those actors playing those roles! I was wondering, as a person who writes on the side, during my down time, my writing process starts with forming the story in my head before I put pen to paper, what is your writing process like?"</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I’m in the final stages of writing my third novel, and my process has varied from project to project. Generally, though, before writing I have an idea of where I want to start and where I want to end up. The middle’s generally filled in as I write, and refined through multiple drafts. I’ve also used outlines, to a varying extent, for all three books."</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"It depends on the story. <i>Royal Flush</i> isn’t intended for much more than pure amusement (though there is some social commentary in there). It’s a very silly book. The one I’m currently finishing—<i>Taking Stock—</i>takes itself more seriously, and hopefully will give readers something to think about after they’ve put it down."</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Like I said, <i>Taking Stock</i> is almost finished—it’s about a writer whose mother dies two years before the book begins, and who spends those two years as a recluse. His inheritance runs out, and he’s forced to get a job at the local grocery store. The workplace politics are unusually fraught there, and he starts using drugs as a crutch with which to hobble through his newfound social life. I’m excited to get it out there."</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"The next project will be comedic science fiction set in the far future, in a society where anarchy has ostensibly taken over, but in truth corporations are running the show even more than they do nowadays. Modern life in this time has grown so cumbersome and inconvenient that instead of saving for retirement, everyone saves for a single one-way plane ticket (air travel has grown very expensive). There’s only one destination: the ‘New World’, which is said to lack all the bureaucracy of the ‘Old World’. For the first scene, I’m planning for the main character to be told there’s a good chance he’s the messiah. (The dominant religion is ‘Probablism’.)</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Thanks a million for answering all my questions…and the others, Scott. it has been a real pleasure. As I said before, I have seen <i>Royal Flush </i>online at <b>Amazon.ca </b>is there anywhere else your book is available and what formats?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>"Royal Flush</i> is available in print for $12.99 and as an eBook for $2.99, in all formats. Links to the various online stores can be found at my blog: <a href="http://batshite.com/royalflush/">http://batshite.com/royalflush/</a></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"You must be frozen solid by now, Scott. My mates have been pretty greedy with the heat, so I am going to let you go so you can toddle on home and warm up, but before you go is there anything else you want to add?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>"Yes, actually! I’m starting a newsletter in February, which I’m calling “News in a Letter”. (Apt, right?) By signing up you receive a free audio recording of “The King of Hearts”, which is Part One of <i>Royal Flush</i>. It’s read by me—I do the voices and everything. Subscribers are also entered to win a signed copy of the book. Folks can sign up here: <a href="http://batshite.com/signup">http://batshite.com/signup</a></b><b>."</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I enter the my house, longing for a long hot bath and a glass of wine, I see a dozen red roses on the dining room table and a note: <i> I have always loved you from a distance, but never had the courage to ask you out. I am still not ready, but when I find the courage I will whisk you in my arms and make you mine."</i></span></div>
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