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Parallel lives
Date: 10/20/2014, Categories: Love Stories, Author: Alexandra_A, Rating: 7, Source: LushStories
'They lock you in here. Leave you here. Unwanted. Alone. Give you nothing, no more attention but what one would give to a dog, expecting nothing but your obedience... your silent acquiescence...' More tears fell as I shook my head. 'But not you, James! Not you!' By way of demonstration, I gazed around the room at his letters, his diagrams, pinned to the wall, the array of instruments, the materials, almost all of which he had provided me. His eyes followed mine till they fell with undeniable distaste upon my recently exhausted machine. My fucking machine, with its new-fangled linkage, the flexible parallelogram that ensured parallel motion to within one part in four thousand. Then his shrewd eyes widened with wonder. And his malleable mind began to whirr. * For further information visit: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_motion