Zane’s Everything Fades Away: An eShort Story

Summary

Amanda is bored with life. She spends hours every day onFacebook, her parents act like they are too ancient to enjoy life any longer,and her military husband, Ralph, is deployed to Afghanistan. Gideon is nottotally content at home either. His wife, Nina, is a lifetime overachiever anda workaholic. She has moved her mother into their home so she can have alive-in sitter and Gideon has fallen to the bottom of her priority list. OnBlack Friday 2012, both Amanda and Gideon end up at a Best Buy to takeadvantage of the massive price cuts on electronics. When the store opens itsdoor at midnight, the potential customers rush the glass doors and end up in abrawl. Built-up excitement turns into mass pandemonium as the police show up inriot gear. Tear gas containers are being tossed around like lollipops, andstrangers are beating on each other like a heavyweight fight at the MGM Grandin Vegas.

Amanda and Gideon both end up in the skywalk overlooking themadness and, even though they are complete strangers to each other, theadrenaline rush overwhelms them and they discover quick ecstasy among thechaos. After putting their clothes back on, followed by making formalintroductions, they embark on a sexual journey together that reignites the flamesin their souls. Both are forced to make choices that they never thought wouldhave to be made; marriages are placed at risk; heartbreak is inevitable. Whatstarts out merely as casual sex becomes much more than mere physical attraction,and their lives begin to unravel.

No matter how incredible something wrong can make one feel, eventually EverythingFades Away.