Fishing In Brains For An Eye With Teeth (Thirteen Tales Of Terror) - Plot & Excerpts
until he met Rachel.Adam spent virtually every night in the company of a beautiful young woman. He was rich, powerful, and brutally handsome. Women found him to be suave, sophisticated, sensitive, and sincere. He was the kind of charismatic individual every lady wanted to sleep with and every gentleman envied.He was also wise in the ways of women, knowing what they wanted, what they needed, what they thought. He understood most females in ways they would never understood themselves.His charms were irrefutable, irresistible.He could have any woman he desired—except for Rachel. Rachel had been a real challenge for him.He was frustrated he hadn’t been able to read her mind yet.Until he read her mind, he couldn’t know if she was right for him.Adam first signed online just six years ago, in 2006. He didn’t care much for new technology and only dabbled on the Internet at first, largely using it as a source of news. Then, about six months ago, he discovered a website called Poetry-Verse, where he eventually met Rachel. In addition to The Poet’s Pulpit, the site’s own chat room, Poetry-Verse had numerous message boards where amateurs could post poems on a variety of topics. Adam enjoyed reading amateur poetry. Most of it was drivel, of course, horrendous to the extreme, but every once in a blue moon, he found someone with the gift.Occasionally he ran across someone who had the soul of a poet.Adam believed Rachel was one of those special people. Four months ago, after enjoying some of her poems on the message boards, Adam went looking for Rachel in The Poet’s Pulpit. Several vigilant nights later, when he finally found her, they chatted at length, eventually taking their conversation private. Using instant messages, they talked for nearly three hours. He was honest about his appreciation of her poetry and she responded enthusiastically to both his praise and his minor criticisms.They became fast friends.Since then, they’ve spent many nights together online, 'talking' for hours in little windows.Rachel was 33-years-old, an attractive blonde divorcee, living in Muncie, Indiana, with her seven-year-old daughter, Deborah. She had been married twice, the first time when she was only eighteen. Soon after she wed her high school sweetheart and they settled into their rat-hole apartment, the bills mounted up, finances got tight, and her hubby started hitting her to alleviate his stress. Rachel took his beatings twice but when he attacked her a third time, she left him for good.Her second husband was Deborah’s father. Rachel divorced him when he ran off with another woman. He owed Rachel years of back alimony and child support that she never expected to see.Rachel worked long days as a paralegal. She spent her evenings with her daughter and she occasionally used her nights to write and post poetry.Adam wished he could write poetry himself.
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