You wouldn't think that a geeky boy would find love and happiness as a woman, but I have, and it's all thanks to my town's unique way to honor America's Military.

My name is Jody Drew Sanderson: winner of the Miss Rainbow Pageant of Twin Rocks Alabama and on my way to college with my husband, Hannibal Sebastian Sanderson.

Abraxes

May the gods and goddesses of our people bless the readers, especially those I love.

My name was Abraxes, and I was a slave. Despite this, the gods blessed me beyond all measure, and I will die as a member of the nobility. For my children, and their children, I wish to record what happened, so they may know how that happened, and thank the gods and goddesses who brought such joy into my life. The account I must relate is strange, stranger than any other I have heard of, but I swear by all our gods and goddesses that it is the truth.

I must first recount how I became a slave. My father had become indebted to a moneylender named Adiano. Our whole family was threatened with slavery. Desperate, my father took me and my twin sister Aleda to a rival of Adiano’s, a nobleman named Argyro.

A Safe Place

Tina looked at herself in her wedding gown, and tried to hide her nervousness. She could hear the voices from her past, calling her the names she heard so often as a child.

A strange woman entered the room, and somehow, neither her bridesmaid nor her mother-in-law seemed to think that was odd. The woman came over to Tina, and said to her, “You are afraid”

Somehow, Tina could not lie to this stranger, and said “Terrified. What if I cant make him happy in bed? What if after all this, he decides he can’t sleep with a former man?”

“I think you need to remember how you met.”

She touched Tina on the forehead, and suddenly….

Then …

“Can I help you? Asked the old man standing behind a counter in the store.

“I’m just looking, thank you anyway.”

“You're bored, am I correct?”

“I guess so.”

Synopsis- Rick Townsend is a bored teenager in Southern California. While visiting a mall, he buys an electronic game from the Wizard called 'The Adventures of Life'.

I must thank Puddin for her help in getting this story ready for publication.