A return visit to the characters from one of my more popular short stories: Nerve Path. It's been almost four years since Eric and Maureen first consummated their relationship with Julie after the infamous belly button piercing. What are their lives like now?
A story in the Haven Tails Universe
Archie McDermott’s war has taken him a long way from his father’s barbershop since Fireball Day, including a new family, but geographically, he hasn’t traveled very far, from Wheaton to Peoria, fighting the neofascist Justice Party faction in Illinois. His pursuit of vengeance is almost done, but he has a new purpose: rebuilding again in love, lust, trust, and faith in the new Havenite religion…and Schumacher Syndrome. He also has to deal with the ghosts of his tormented family past.
A naïve young wife who spends too much time home alone begins to explore the internet for the first time. After a few relatively harmless chats she finds herself being blackmailed into becoming a sex slave to a big bad biker.
She'd seen Christine but once since they were roommates in college, that was at Christine's wedding to Dan, but now she's in town, and when Christine invites her for a visit, things get interesting. Note: I've posted two versions of this story, identical except that one is illustrated.
For the first time in her adult life, Wendy isn't experiencing at least a little dread about returning home. She's living in a nice place with neighbors she adores, and she couldn't be happier. When she spies her next door neighbor touching a man who isn't her husband in an obviously sexual way, it turns all her expectations on their head in ways she couldn't have ever dreamed - or fantasized - of.