“Have you ever touched a really old person? I don’t mean just their hand or kissing their cheek or anything, I mean their naked skin, have you ever handled an old person?” What happens to sensuality with age? Can minds connect? This thoughtful story explores the bond between two women, almost strangers, young and old.

"Christopher and Mary were looking for a place to have a picnic, not for a house, when they drove down the overgrown lane..."

A young couple bring life and love to an abandoned house--just what it needs. But what if there are residents that only the cat can see? And what does mistletoe have to do with it?

"He was an ordinary German, walking one night on a Berlin street, near where he lived, when a car turned the corner and followed alongside him at a crawl...."

"My earliest memory, one that I will never forget, is of being awakened from sleep, summoned up out of warm subterranean darkness by a hand on my shoulder...."

"They inhaled deeply, the warm organoleptic confluence of fictional flavors infusing them with a kind of charmed glow that they could never attain through mere sexuality..."

What exactly is going on between these two young people? The police would like to know. An investigation is underway.