I’m lying on my back; naked in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar room. How long have I been asleep? Why am I still wearing my watch? I turn my he...d to the right and see her. She’s lying in the bed on her side with her back to me, propped up on one elbow. Naked as well, from what I can see. The rhythmic tapping telling me she’s working on her laptop, maybe that’s what woke me. What’s she doing? An essay? Her dissertation? Maybe she’s on the website where we met. I choose to not lean over and. Since they had their own materials and provided the labor, I didn't mind letting them use my forge and even helping here and there.The following morning we bid the family goodbye before dawn and watched them drive off to the west. Then it was back to the usual chores.Three weeks later and just two days before Sam's first birthday, Moxie gave birth to another child, a healthy beautiful little girl. We discussed naming her at length and eventually settled on both a Comanche and English name. I. Foreign Exchange - Yet another "Dental Care" sequel - by - The StoryMaster"Hey gimme a break man!" Ray Barrette practicallyshouted into the telephone. "What kinda bullshit is that,Jack? I'm the one who recommended that they take theirdaughter to see 'The Good Doctor'. I oughtta get firstcrack at her."On the other end of the line Ray's friend Jack Merrickanswered with equal conviction, "I don't give a shit, Ray! After what you and Greeley pulled with my Tracy; I thinkyou owe me!" Owe you. She was being very thorough. I had heard her calling in ads to the Lost and Found sections of newspapers, and talking to medical school people on the hunch they were buying animals for student dissection."It's not going to be easy to hide a tricolored collie. They're the rare ones," she had pointed out to me. "Well, maybe not as rare as the Morrells," the thought occurred to her, "but certainly not an everyday breed." She had been moved to tears periodically. "Where can he be?" she had kept.