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Aliens make contact in northern Vermont and, well, have a little fun at our expense.

John is always eager to please everybody - maybe more than a bit too eager. His best friend bets he can persuade him into anything. WARNING! This story contains no sex whatsoever. Nor does it contain foul language or any kind of physical or mental abuse.

© 1999

I would like to offer this story as a possible explanation for the thousands of unexplained suicides that occur around the world every year. I offer no apopogies if the story offends you there is nothing sweet or pretty about death. For those that think suicide is the cowards way out I can tell you from personal experience that standing on the edge of the precipice and contemplating your imminent demise is not something that a coward could do. I stood upon the brink on my thirteenth birthday and could not take that final step to end my torment.

Felix transitus a macero ad requiem [Happy is the passage from torment to rest].