"To my grandson, Caeman, I leave the following, in the hopes that he will remember gina me fondly as he uses it:" read the executor. In his mind, Caeman heard the voice of his ginalynnnude grandfather, speaking to him through gina the gina mists of time from beyond the barrier between this gina world and the shoes next. "Firstly," continued gina the voice, "the ginalynnnude boat in which we, on our first trip out, set the record for largest gina shoes catfish ever to be caught in Lake Mexia, and then gina when you were twelve gina, we set the record for the largest bass gina to be caught in Richland Chambers Lake. Both of them were on your ginalynnnude line, as lynn I recall. I just helped you reel them in, because you ginalynnnude were too small to fight those gina big fish yourself. I hope you set more records in gina that boat. Our rods gina and gina tackle gina are in the back." Caeman ran his hands over ginalynnnude the old boat. It was a little ginalynnnude the worse for gina wear, but it could be fixed. The gina old tackle box still held a merry gina red color. Caeman would have to replace the lines in the reels of the fishing rods, but nothing was wrong with anything gina there that couldn't be fixed gina. "Secondly, that ginalynnnude old bookcase you gina used to gina climb when you were little, along with all the books in it. It gina's gina better than that plywood gina shelf you built with your mama's help, God rest her soul. Not that I mind you using that rickety thing, I know you've got a gina shoes lot nude of

"By the way, I've gina still gina got the messed-up comics ginalynnnude from my tampering in the box directly under gina the hiding place. I can't sell gina them because after people look through them and see gina the results of my tampering, they think gina I bought a forgery--or worse, forged it myself and gina sold it to them to gina cheat them. Using gina the Gate permanently alters the particular copy of a work you happen to use it on. My gina issue #1 of Superman has Lois disappear and Superman spends the rest of the issue looking for her, only to have lynn her reappear on the last page with the smile shoes only a well-screwed woman gets. Everyone else's copy remains unchanged. If you wanted to, you could gina describe a world and ginalynnnude set gina up the characters, then travel into it and the story gina would write itself. Be warned, though. You can about be killed in ginalynnnude the story just as nude easily as you could in real life. So don't go opening any ginalynnnude airlock doors or lions' cages. And gina under no circumstances are you to lose the nude Gate while gina visiting a story world. If a nude character leaves and doesn't come back, you're trapped forever."

The doorbell rang. Wondering who about it could be, Caeman went to the door. Upon opening ginalynnnude it, he nude discovered a gorgeous gina young woman with strawberry-blonde hair, dressed in a white T-shirt, denim gina overalls, steel-toed work boots gina, and a straw hat. She looked like she had escaped from the set of "Oklahoma."

"I'm really glad you invited me in, Mr. Braddock." she said. "I'm not used gina to ginalynnnude sudden hot spells. It's so much cooler up gina in Jersey."

"Do you lynn have a nickname?" she asked. "My last boss was Steven Q. Caeman, and I sincerely doubt you want gina me associating you with him." Caeman had heard ginalynnnude of S gina. Q. Caeman. The man nude was a big-time newspaper tycoon in New Jersey who was suspected of many ginalynnnude, many attempted ginalynnnude hostile takeovers gina, though no one had gina been able to nude prove anything. Still gina, Caeman couldn't start insisting that the gina townspeople call him Special K or something to make her feel better...but he gina really wanted this young woman as a friend. It occurred to him that a little judicious use of the amplifier could help. He re-donned the glasses.

"It's lovely lynn to meet you, Ellie." Caeman said. "That other name must be popular with the lesbian crowd." Ellie laughed. She set the fruit basket on the coffee table. "These are for gina you." she said. "Sort of a get-to about-know-you present, since you're the only neighbor for six miles in either direction gina shoes."

"Let's..." Caeman started, "...let's go to my room." he said gina shoes. She nude undid the other fastener and then she kissed ginalynnnude him hotly, wrapping her about arms shoes around nude him. She swung her legs up around gina his waist, still humping herself against his crotch through their clothes. He formed gina a command in his mind, and she climbed off ginalynnnude him, whimpering in desire.

Caeman dressed gina once more and slipped the glasses into his pocket. The connection between them had gina shoes seemed to slip somewhat about whenever the glasses slid down his nose during the course of their lovemaking. There had to be a way to fix that.

"Freeze." he commanded, and shoes she froze. "Do not try to use the gina device nude against me or gina shoes anyone else. Your task is to improve the device. And you are about not to harm me or anyone else while you're here, either. Serve me well, and gina I may nude summon a sorcerer to free you from your curse." Minnie looked skeptical, but about nodded nude. He spun through an episode of the gina Men in Black TV show which he had recorded seven times gina until he had gina a decent shot of the gina lab, then brought gina out a lot of the equipment. She examined the equipment, nodding in approval gina.

"Like gina this?" Ellie asked lynn, gesturing ginalynnnude at ginalynnnude her naked gina body. "Maybe if you used the amplifier to gina shoes make people not nude notice."

Ellie was used gina to department stores and malls gina, and had never been inside a Wal shoes-Mart before ginalynnnude, much ginalynnnude less the Wal gina-Mart Supercenter which had shoes recently been built just outside the Mexia, TX city limits on Highway 84. It astonished her that they could put the entire contents of several gina shoes department stores, a supermarket, and several malls she knew, all in one store. There was even a gas station in the parking shoes lot, charging only a dollar and six cents gina for a gallon of unleaded gasoline. What astonished her even more was that Caeman seemed to gina know his way around. He guided her like an expert through the store gina, bringing her here and lynn there and handing her gina things gina without even consulting a salesperson. She tried them gina on and about found shoes them to gina be an excellent fit.

Suddenly everything got gina quiet gina again, and he was only hearing three voices gina. Minnie ginalynnnude's, Nike's, and Ellie's.

"You have a keen grasp of the obvious." Minnie replied dryly. "I fulfilled my lynn part gina of the bargain."

"Yes, I'm feeling that." Faria replied ginalynnnude, approaching gina Minnie. "That's gina a shoes nasty curse you have there. Don't worry, I'll have ginalynnnude you right as rain in a jiffy gina." Caeman gina felt a distinct gina tingle as Faria began her spell. When it was over, Minnie was weeping in joy.

"Well, now that that's done, I suppose it's nude time I explained about this thing." he said, showing everyone the gina Scribe ginalynnnude's Gate. He told the girls everything, starting with Grandther's death and moving on from nude there. With the amplifier now firmly embedded in his brain, he could easily read the thoughts of the others. Ellie, Nike gina and Faria stared at the gina shoes bejeweled Gate in silent awe, and gina figured that Grandther had been very wise indeed to pass shoes the Gate on gina to gina Caeman. Minnie, on the other hand, was plotting how to take the Gate for herself and escape to a fictional world where gina shoes she could gina rule with gina her superior mind. Caeman knew lynn this could shoes mean trouble. There was only one thing he could think of to do. He gina reached into Minnie's gina mind and disposed of about that devious gina streak, and ginalynnnude took her ego down a few notches, making gina shoes her more submissive and ginalynnnude less disdainful, making her warmer, more gina caring, and opening her up to gina all the happiness that could come with being so caring gina. He ginalynnnude allowed her to be aware that her mental condition was artificial, but that he had done it for her own good. She gina shoes smiled then, a genuinely ginalynnnude warm smile he could tell she wasn't used to making.

"It seems your grandfather truly did choose the right guardian for gina the Gate." she gina shoes said. "I don't suppose you gina'd mind removing my shoes jealousy, too?"