Here We Go Again

 Hi everyone!

I really hope you enjoyed The Last Jeskey.  I know I enjoyed it.  I enjoyed writing it too.  But…well…here we go again.

Okay, there’s the bad news and the bad news.  The first bad news is that I’m going to inflict yet another story on you (evil laugh).  But the second bad news is that once again there’s nothing that I consider to be kinky stuff in it at all.  To the best of my knowledge, just like The Last Jeskey, this next story is safe for work.  In my opinion anyway.  Don’t quote me on that.

Before I tell you about the next story, I’d like to say a big thank you to all of you who stuck with me and read this story, and an even bigger thanks to those of you who have checked in on me for years.  THANKS!  I appreciate it!  I also very much appreciate the few comments I get once in a while, letting me know what you think.  So to those of you who have commented, another big THANKS!

Oh!  And if you ever feel so inclined, please go to Amazon Kindle and check out the books I have for sale.  They’re listed under Karen Singer.  Just a bit of a reminder.  Thanks again!

Okay, the commercial is over.  As they sang on the Bug’s Bunny Show – On with the show, this is it.

This next story is called Extracted.  Yeah, a weird title, I know.  Deal with it!  I wasn’t planning on writing anything at all, yet this thing crept up on me, grabbed my brain, and refused to let go.  I had no choice but to write it.  And I hate to say it, but it may be one of the more fascinating stories I’ve ever written.  Writing it was just like old times.  The words seemed to fly off my fingers faster than anyone would believe.  In fact, I wrote the entire thing in about three weeks!  I lived, breathed, and slept this story.  It obsessed me that much.

But you don’t care about any of that.  You want to know what you’ll be getting into if you take a chance and read the thing.  Okay.  Fair enough.  First of all, when I started writing it, I wondered if maybe I was writing my first actual horror story.  But that quicky turned out to be not the case, even though what happened was certainly a horror to the main characters.  What it is though, is something much different.  The only way I can describe this novel is that it’s the story of…let’s say the fallout to the innocent victims from an act of revenge.  As much as I hate to say it, that’s the best description I can give it.  I do know that in reading through it, there were a lot of times I didn’t want to stop reading it.  It was that fascinating.

So what else can I tell you about this story?  As usual, that’s like Mission Impossible for me.  Strangely, the opening line to a song the Beetles released back in 1967 comes to mind.  A song with lyrics written by the great John Lennon.  What song?  A simple oddity called The Walrus.  The song opens with:

 

I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together.

As intended, the words are confusing…just like the characters in this story are confused.  However, if we were to really try to apply these lyrics to the story we would need to make some slight alterations to something more like:

 

He is she
And she is he
As you are me
And we are all together.

 

Yeah.  Much more appropriate here.  If you analyze that it should tell you a lot about this next book, because she is he and he is she.  Yeah, it’s already getting confusing.  I promise, reading about it is a lot easier.  As you can tell though, it’s a body swap story, and a gender swap story, and…a few other things as well.

As I said earlier, I consider this to be a very fascinating story, but that’s my opinion.  As always, your milage on that may vary.  Still, I think it’s a good one.  Maybe a really good one.  And it all starts with an accident that even some of the brightest minds in the country couldn’t figure out.

Twenty-seven chapters, but many of them are longer than the chapters in The Last Jeskey so I had to break them up to keep my posts to about the length I want.  I think it’s about forty-five posts total.  Another thing you don’t care about is that the total number of pages in this story is almost exactly the same as in The Last Jeskey, so the two stories are about the same length despite this one having fewer chapters.  And strangely enough, this story and The Last Jeskey are about what I consider to be the optimal length for a novel.  But I know, you don’t care.  Tough!  It makes me happy.

In the words of John Lennon who wrote in the lyrics for The Walrus:  “Goo goo g' joob.”

Extracted – Chapter List

Chapter 1 – I Was Just Joking

Chapter 2 – Accidently On Purpose

Chapter 3 – Scotty, Engage Warp Engines

Chapter 4 – Increasing Warp Speed

Chapter 5 – Warp Ten Achieved

Chapter 6 – Welcome To My World

Chapter 7 – The Psycho and Delic Hallucination

Chapter 8 – Absolutely Bonking Freaking

Chapter 9 – That’s Who I Am

Chapter 10 – Hello Mudda’

Chapter 11 – Round One and Round Two

Chapter 12 – Hello, It’s Not Me

Chapter 13 – How Many Eggs Does It Take

Chapter 14 – Like Sheep to the Slaughter

Chapter 15 – Have You Met Yourself

Chapter 16 – Please Don’t Hate Me

Chapter 17 – The Party’s At The Pool

Chapter 18 – Can I Ask You A Question

Chapter 19 – Friends and Lovers

Chapter 20 – Do Guys Have Periods Too

Chapter 21 – Out Of Sorts

Chapter 22 – Sign Me Up

Chapter 23 – Psst!  I Can’t Tell You This

Chapter 24 – Come File With Me

Chapter 25 – Slings and Arrows of Being a Quack

Chapter 26 – Aliens Explains Everything

Chapter 27 – Where’s Ponce de León When You Need Him

 

Yeah, goo goo g' joob is right!

Extracted starts with my next post.  Hopefully.

Love to you all,

Karen