Curse of the Zwilling

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Don Sakers

CURSE OF THE ZWILLING

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events

portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to

real people or events is purely coincidental.

Published by

Speed-of-C Productions

PO Box 265

Linthicum, MD 21090-0265

ISBN: 0-9716147-2-5

December 2003

Cover art: Detail of

Abbey in an Oak Forest

by Caspar David

Friedrich, 1809.

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permission is piracy, and deprives authors of income.

Authorized electronic texts of this book are available at

www.scatteredworlds.com

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logo are assured to meet professional standards.

DEDICATION:

To Steve Grey — who was almost a twin.

BOOK ONE:

Moondance

September 1985

O Fortuna, velat luna

Statu variabilis,

Semper crecis, aut decrecis;

vita detestabilis

nunc obdurat, et tunc curat

ludo mentis aciem,

egestatum, protestatum

dissolvit ut glaciem.

—

Carmina Burana

Chapter One

(Susan Whitlow)

The air conditioner was still not working.

Susan Whitlow wiped sweat from her brow before any

more drops spotted the papers she was grading. Bad enough

to have to come in on a Saturday, but to spend it grading

papers in this hellhole of an office without air conditioning

compounded the agony to ridiculous levels.

Heaving a great sigh, Susan pushed back her chair and

turned off the struggling air conditioner. Her office was not

large — a mere cubby forgotten in a corner of the third floor

of ancient Purnell Hall — but at least she’d had the presence

of mind to pick the office with

two

windows. She wrenched

the second open as far as it would go, and winced at the blast

of humid air that washed into the room.

Damn, damn. Middle of September already, and summer

heat had still not broken. Susan leaned against the

windowsill, looked out across tree-spotted grass to the thick

growth that led down to the Patapsco River. Aged oaks and

an occasional willow soared skyward from tangled leafy

underbrush, stirring only a bit in the hot wind. The air hung

heavy with humidity and the cloying perfume of

honeysuckle.

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Susan wiped her face again and reached for a glass of iced

tea on the corner of her cluttered desk. The ice had long since

melted, and only a few beads of perspiration clung to the

outside of the glass — yet warm and diluted as it was, the tea

still tasted good. There was a refrigerator in the faculty lounge

down the hall…she supposed she should go down and get

some more. It would make this grading session go much more

easily.

Still she stood by the window. Two students, a boy and a

girl, tossed a Frisbee back and forth behind Purnell; now and

again their laughter made its way to Susan’s ears. The boy

was dressed only in tattered gym shorts; the girl wore shorts

and a green-and-black Patapsco University tee shirt. Green

and black — what had possessed the University to choose

such a depressing combination of colors?

For that matter, Susan sighed, what had possessed them to

build the school in this benighted location? Oh, Spring and

Autumn were beautiful enough, when the entire Patapsco

Valley celebrated the age-old rhythms of life all for the

amazement and amusement of the young people who

frequented the campus. But Winter was treacherous, with ice

and snow that could seal off this isolated area, with week after

unendurable week of grey clouds and dreary cold rain. And

Summer — well, no one had ever claimed to enjoy a

Maryland Summer. In mid-June the Chesapeake Bay

evaporated, and hung around as humidity until mid-

September when it took its place once again. Or so it seemed.

Susan counted by tapping her fingers, the old wood of the

windowsill rough beneath them. This was the tenth Maryland

Summer she had endured here at Patapsco. Each year she

swore it would be the last. And each year, somehow, she

found herself staying on another year rather than go through

the hassle of finding a new position.

She looked back at her desk, and couldn’t help a grin. Face

it, girl, one of the reasons you don’t move away is that you

can’t contemplate the immense task of sorting through all

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