Chapter 50

Wednesday night. Tomorrow is Thursday.

Chapter 50 - Semolina

Life Imitates Art

My brother just sent me a link to this story:

Marvin Goldstein was a toddler in 1945 when he experienced a catch rivaling any you'd see at a baseball game.

"The windows at that time did not have window guards," Goldstein remembers. "I leaned out, and I had one hand on the window inside and the other hand I was leaning out. [I] let go and fell five stories."

Sal Mauriello, a barber, was coming home early from work that day. He heard a woman scream and saw her point up to the window. Mauriello took of his coat and used it as a net to catch Goldstein in his arms.

Pretty cool, huh?

Three more chapters

I'm on a roll. With all the time I've spent writing it in my head, I haven't had time to put it in type, which has been driving me crazy. So I'm going to finish the damn thing. There are only 5 or 6 chapters to go, I think, and the end is quite exciting. But I'm not going to give it away.

I particularly like these three. The next one is scary.

Chapter 47 - Tight Quarters
Chapter 48 - Snatched
Chapter 49 - Relocation

All three chapters in this single PDF file (about 11 pages)

Two New Chapters

You might notice the first chapter is labeled 44, the same as the previous last chapter. It's very short. I'm re-arranging again. There were two long chapters back to back on the crowd at Jim's apartment, I thought they needed to be broken up, and that we needed to catch up with Allen. "Tali" is now chapter 45. That's why I couldn't put these two in a single PDF file.

Chapter 46 is a good one, albeit a bit, um, explicit. It will make you want me to finish chapter 48. But 47 is one that folks have been waiting for, and that I keep pushing later. This time, for sure. It's time.

Chapter 45 - The Gap

Chapter 46 - Rocky Road

Chapter 44 - Tali

In this chapter, we get to spend some time alone with Tali. I find this description quite amusing, and after reading the chapter so will you. Or perhaps you will be merely confused. Don't worry, some action is coming up in the next chapters.

Chapter 44 (pdf)