It’s lovely hearing from you again. Tell me about your WIP (work in progress).’ ‘I’m sending you a copy of my latest.’ ‘Oh yes. I saw the ...front cover of ‘Wretched Rachel’ on a book show on TV two nights ago. The reviewer awarded it four out of five stars and said it was a handbook for mothers of teenagers told at pace in the style of a ripping good yarn. Well done honey.’ ‘Yeah other reviews I’ve received from my publisher are of similar tone. They appeared focused on the word ‘handbook’. He started making topical Canadian political jokes about Senator Stockwell Day, pointing out that he had created the Canadian Conservative Reformed Alliance Party before checking the acronym. It didn’t help when a different leaflet spelled Alliance as Appliance, and he asked if a toaster came with party registration.”“What do dominance and pain, which I understand are separable, mean to you?”“Excellent question, with no simple answer. I think it began when I had an intuition of power exchange,. She greeted me at the door and asked me in. I was nervous and anxious and wasn’t sure how to proceed. Trudy then showed me a deck of cards and asked if I wanted to play strip poker. My pecker got hard faster than I could answer her yes. We sat down on the living room floor on opposite sides of the coffee table and Trudy began shuffling the cards. She dealt the first hand and loser had to remove an article of clothing. I lost and took off my shoes. Then I dealt and still lost, so I took off my. They could have done that without even telling Mom.While the girls were at the mall, I went into my old bedroom and got on my computer. I logged into ebay and checked on my account. The time had run out and the final bids were in.The same guy had the high bids on both the kids' records and the old record player. I hoped he was buying these for children instead of to sell. We'd spent many wonderful hours with that record player and those records as children. And that kind of music never goes out.