What started out as a simple day off and a visit to an estranged friend, a man finds himself thinking over his life, and what was once held with her. In a fog of blurred and forgotten memories, and a body of steel and wire, is she still in there?
A quiet mountain lake is swimming with ecstasy. Patrick, desperate for a much needed vacation, rents a cottage on a private lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. He seeks peace and serenity, what he gets is an erotic orgy filled summer.
After a depressed drinking binge the night before, Estelle Jones awoke to find a strange young man in her bed and no idea how he got there. To make matters worse, neither of them spoke the same language.
A story in the Changes Universe
There was something to be admired in those bygone times. That War of Northern Aggression was very similar to ours with the Pony Soldiers; neither really won, but don't say that too loudly. A lot of things might have changed but what didn't was that both of us were raised to kill and fight and not run away like some 'namby pamby' schoolgirl. Times had changed, I'll try to tell you a story of the old way and how that change affected us. There was a lot to admire about others, I found out.
An intelligent, creative man designs and builds a marvelous home out of the bones of a mountain. Against all odds, he manages to finally hook up with a woman that could be his wife. Her daughter, however, is a careless child of the times. The poor bastard's lesson is brutal beyond belief.
Cathy Wilford spent time with Mom and Dad as they faded into old age. They'd taken her in as an orphan and made her a part of the family and almost an "Aunt" to their son Clay. But the accident shattered everything; that moment of unthinking joy riding. She was left with a spinal injury and the prospect of not walking again. But Clay had specialized, through the service, in physical growth and rehab. He took her on as a patient, then as a lover and finally as his wife.