I went along with my usual after-school activities- eating, watching TV, playing video games, just general procrastination- only I didn't have the usu...l homework hanging over my head. A short break is better than no break, I guess.Late that night, I dreamed, as I always did. About being female.That's kind of a crucial point to this story, so I guess I'll explain. I'd always felt that I would be happier if I had been born female- a beautiful one, preferably. I don't lust after men or crossdress. He said he was going to pattern it after what he had done when he established a dental practice there. Troy said a study he had commissioned for this type of medical practice located in a town the size of Lake Lancer indicated it could be viable economically to establish a practice there. The study indicated the staffing necessary for this practice was that besides the doctor, there should be an office manager, one or two nurses and a receptionist. Troy said they would fund the office and its. My name is Stanley, the name I selected for my own dog. When I was growing up, my family always had one dog after another. I got used to the idea of feeding, grooming and cleaning up after a dog. Once I left home, my older sister mj gave me a dog as a gift. The reason, she said, was to repay me for what she called a fantastic night of muff diving. Hell, she was so tasty that I should have been the one giving the present.I had quickly learned, back in the big city, that walking a dog was a. Alex rolled away. This was no game. The little man was playing for keepsHe followed Alex relentlessly, holding his knife ready for the taste of blood.Alex scuttled along on his back trying to get away, but the killer had him cornered and was closing in for the finish. He held his knife low, blade up. When he lunged, he came in low trying to make a horizontal stab into Alex's body.Rolling again, Alex evaded the knife for the second time. But just barely.He was breathing hard and the stones on.