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             "While 
              we wait you can decide if you want to leash me here or outside." 
            "Here," 
              I said. 
            She tossed the 
              leash onto the table. "You watched her take other lovers, she'll 
              have to watch you. Jealousy is a strange creature, Jasper. We can 
              go now." 
             
            Jasper's 
              in love with Tracie and Tracie's in love with Jasper but the chasm 
              of their ages separates them and Jasper must adjust in some way 
              to being without her. Of course life is never so simple in high 
              school. 
            This 
              is the story of people living in a special place and while there 
              is sex in this novelette, the story doesn't drip with sex. Written 
              in 2006, about 31,000 words in length in 19 chapters. 
            Links 
              Walking the Dog is available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat document, as a Kindle mobi file, or 
              as online web pages. 
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              the story as a Adobe Acrobat document. 
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            Writing 
              the Story 
              The 
              story started as an idea of two people living in a town and falling 
              in love but both had obligations as the town sluts. The idea was 
              shelved and almost forgotten completely until this story began to 
              emerge which has a different dynamic entirely. 
            Walking 
              the Dog was written quickly and on revising additional chapters 
              were added (such as chapter 15) 
              to 
              help make the conclusion more sensible. I wrote this and several 
              other stories at the same time using the basic format of 1500 word 
              chapters that were, mostly, a single scene or event. This is a different 
              approach to how I wrote stories such as Switch. 
            Sources 
              There 
              is no single source but the story couldn't help but be influenced 
              by a fascinating woman I met online who is the living embodiment 
              of many of my female characters  sexually adventurous, submissive 
              in some ways, the opposite in others, very much in love with the 
              man she's married to, but also having a history that includes prostitution 
              (under a previous owner). One of the characteristics of this woman 
              is the ease in which she enters polyamorous relationships. 
               
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