Gabriella

By Richard Friesen

Chris can't figure out why her memories don't match reality.

Her life is almost perfect now. She has a beautiful lover, a good job at the casino in the warp train terminal. There, people and aliens come and go from distant stars come. Chris even has her books to read.

Why does she shudder when she touches her lover's skin?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Friesen
• Release date: Mar 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393686842

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Gabriella

Gabriella

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Richard E. Friesen

I finally have my heart’s desire. Why does it feel so wrong? Milica is here with me, sharing my bed at last. For so long, we were just roommates. I used to cherish the brush of her shoulder against mine, the touch of a hand. When she figured that out, she avoided touching me at all, and I had to content myself with her lessons on freedom and resistance. Now, lying in bed together with the warp trains rumbling by overhead, I shudder in revulsion when her leg, smooth and soft, touches mine. What does my body know that I don’t?

I’m so confused, but I’m waiting for a sign. What sign I don’t know. Gabriella has stopped leaving me notes, and I have the strangest dreams—so vivid, so real. In this last one, I’m standing in my own bedroom, just standing, while Milica and Wu wrestle naked on the bed. I can’t move. I want to help Milica, but I can’t. Why do I need to help? I sweat and struggle in time with the pounding in my head. Why can’t I move? Milica