Low Dimensional Game Novels & Stories

I silently thank the Goddess that I kept my thin shirt on last night, too exhausted to pull it off. I notice a scroll on the ground close to my feet. I pick it up, and unfold it carefully, revealing precise, looping penmanship: ‘Step into Trial number three, Where shadows dance and none are free. In forest depths, you now remain, Where strength and wit may bring you gain. The bands you seek are high and bold, Taken from hands now growing cold. Collect the most and rise with pride, Or leave with nothing, cast aside. The final game begins today— Only nine are left to play.

Because anyone with half a brain understood that happy, incredible sex did not equate to love. She once overheard an irritated nursing colleague declare that men have a one-track mind. They want a woman between the covers, and they get it by making you feel as though they don't want to be anywhere else but with you—until they move on to someone else the next day or week, leaving you feeling slightly shopworn and extremely dumb. The only way to gain the upper hand is to deceive them into believing you don't care if you never see them again, or to swear off sex entirely.