”. Gayle answered with a trembling voice and tears forming in her eyes once again.“Good girl. Now let’s get over this segment. Gayle will take o...e clamp off Autumn and pause a few moments so Roger can get some pictures of her reaction then remove the other clamp.”Gayle stepped over to stand in front of Autumn and put her right hand on the clamp attached to Autumn’s left breast. She looked into Autumn’s eyes as she opened the clamp and let it fall. Autumn let out a loud groan as the sudden rush. The soft glimmering of fireflies could now be seen, and the buzzing of crickets filled the air as I stood there quietly, scuffing the floor with the toe of my sandal. All my thoughts were of that strange manuscript, done up on my mother's manual typewriter and annotated here and there in red ink, her scrawly handwriting as familiar to me as my own.Julie, the young woman in the story, was my age, with short coppery hair like mine, a college student who was visiting home. Too close for. This was so much more intense!Feelings of ecstasy filled her entire being, her mind, and her soul. It was lifted from the mundane feeling of existence, of everyday living to a much higher plane. There were swirling images floating all about her as he drank her life's blood. Images of death. Was it her death? She wondered, as the human life force slowly seeped from her body. There were also images so dark and terrifying now that replaced the ones from just moment before of light and beauty. She. The sun began its slow descent towards night as we finished our smoke, each of us lying back with our crossed arms behind our heads. The ambient forest noises lulled me, and it took several moments to realize that Paul had turned, propping his head with one elbow as he looked at me. I turned my head to study him, caught in his eyes, excitement cutting through my mild inebriation like a hot knife through butter. My heart began to beat quickly again, and neither of us spoke for several seconds.“I.