I wouldhave a key after all, wouldn't I? I hunted for it in my bag then liftedit with a shaking hand and inserted it in the lock. It turned easily and...he door sprang open.I stepped nervously into the spacious hall. It was all wood panellingand tasteful decor. It was like paradise.No one was in sight. I couldn't hear anything."Hello?" I said, my voice faint and tremulous. I cleared my throat andsaid it again, louder this time. "Hello?"Somewhere in the back of the house I heard something."Is. For some undetermined reason, she and I never discussed dating, mainly because I would never do anything to threaten her relationship with Sonia, her partner. To my surprise, during lunch in the breakroom one day, Rachel brought up the topic of sex - in a rather unusual way. “Sonia and I are thinking about making a homemade porn film and selling it,” she said. I expected the obvious with my comment, “Girl/girl sex is pretty hot, in film and in reality, so you would probably do well with it.” . I turn my back to him so that he can do the same for me. Only in the last two months have I had to take cold showers for that week. It isn’t John’s fault, so I deal with it.”As I started rinsing the conditioner out of her hair, I said, “You’re here in this house for now. I’m pretty sure I have one of those commercial water heaters that heat the water as it goes through it. My friend Trudy and her friends took showers that went well over an hour. They never once ran out of hot water. Tomorrow. Whatever it was that had hold of hisarms and legs yanked them all forward, while something else pulled himback by the waist. Fortunately, most of his body was still senselessfrom the crippling fall. Otherwise, being folded in half like thatwould have had him screaming in agony.Seconds later, he was screaming in horror instead."Oh shit... this can't fucking be real." Wrapped tightly around eachof his ankles was a dismembered black, ashen, sharply taloned claw. Hecould see them grasping and.