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Sliding Sideways
Date: 8/22/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: BradleyStoke, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories
stockinged thigh on display under her short skirt (as most skirts were) and her blouse coquettishly unbuttoned under her smart jacket. Vivienne smiled. She maintained a healthy dental display behind her wide reddened lips. She pulled out another cigarette from her packet and lit it up. “I still can’t believe it’s true!” she said, hardly able at all to disguise a genuine excitement in her voice. “For so long, I thought I was the only one!” “So, where do you live and what do you do?” wondered Quentin. A fairly obvious question really, but he knew the answer wouldn’t be so obvious. “I can never be sure,” Vivienne confessed. “When I woke up this morning I was living in a semi on the other side of town, but whether I still am I don’t know. The number of times I’ve gone home to where I thought I lived only to find that the set of keys I’d got don’t fit in the door! And then when I wake up, I can never be sure where it’ll be, who I’ll have been sleeping with and where I’m supposed to be going to work. I think I work as a project manager for Pineapple Computers, but I didn’t bother going in to work. What use would I be if I did? I don’t know anything about the job I’m doing and I’d be useless at any meetings. So, I just went to see a film, Martin Scorsese’s Lord of the Rings , and mooched about at Sunbucks.” “Same with me,” Quentin replied, wondering whether he’d started the evening with the half-empty packet of Benson & Hedges Gold Leaf he found in his pocket. “I think I’m ...