Wednesday, November 22, 2000
She weighs down the quilt at one end but releases it, slipping her legs under. Your cheek glides past her rough patch on her thigh.

You emerge at her end of the bed. She looks down at you. She will not repeat herself again.

"Always and for ever," you admit.

She takes hold of you, fiercely.

And so on

Just one of the possible endings from Life's Lottery by Kim Newman. Interesting book - a reclamation of the Fighting Fantasy paradigm of numbered paragrpahs, but actually owing far more to the "select a chapter" prototypes like "State of Emergency" from decades back. Ambitious, and largely successful, although the author's sci-fi background occasionally pokes through like a tibia.

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