Be Careful What You Wish For

Author's note: This story was written in 1999 and posted on another site in January of 2000. A fan who had downloaded the story emailed me and asked me if I could send him a copy of the story since he lost his when his hard drive crashed. I said that I would and when I went to do it I found that I didn't have the entire story. Over the last several years I have gone through three computers and have experienced a few hard drive crashes of my own and somewhere along the way chapters 1 and 2 disappeared. The site where the story originally appeared is long since gone so I was unable to go there and download the missing chapters. What I have had to do is go back in my memory and try to remember as much of the original two chapters as possible and then re-write them.

My writing style is vastly different now from what it was in 1999 and a discerning reader will probably notice the slight disconnect (at least I hope it is 'slight') between chapters one, two and the rest of the chapters that make up the story. Over six hundred stories have passed through my mind since I wrote the original story and I'm sure that there are parts of the original that I've forgotten or remembered incorrectly, but hopefully I got enough right to make the story readable.

My wife has reviewed it for me and she tells me that it is fine, but she loves me so I can't always trust her to be honest with me - she hates to hurt or bruise my ego. My readers on the other hand have never been bashful about sounding off at me so all I can say is read and enjoy, or "Lay on McDuff."

JPB

Colorado 9/24/06