Chapter Eight
Girls Will Be Girls
It was just after lunch when the girls got home.
Todd Lamprey was hard at work, deep in the alternate world he was creating. Seated before the computer in his wheelchair, he hammered away at the keyboard, intent on both venting his passions and bettering his circumstances. Ten years ago he’d suffered a serious spinal cord injury, and since then he’d been poor, celibate, and bound to the bed or chair. Only money could improve his lot in life, so Todd poured all his daily frustrations into creating works of popular fiction he hoped would sell.
If he succeeded, money, women, and physical comforts would inevitably follow. If he failed, he was at least achieving something constructive, and relieving some painful pressures. Lord knew he had enough of them i
