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It was Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, who remarked, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This statement appears to be just as true today as it was then. Perhaps it is even more valid today considering the pressures and frequent monotony of today’s world.
The majority of today’s men and women live in an overcrowded, competitive, noisy world. Most are put into slots and walk on a treadmill — going to boring jobs, living in carbon-copy houses, socializing with the same people. Their desperation is reflected in the rising rate of divorce, alcoholism, drug addiction, and at times is frighteningly released through violent and seemingly unmotivated crime.
The fictional characters in SWAPPED WIFE are desperate people, like their real-life counterparts. Bored, frustrated, unhappy, they seize at the first opportunity for release. In their need, they cast aside morals and scruples, determined to live only for the moment, to grab at pleasure before it is taken away.
SWAPPED WIFE is a novel about the “quiet desperation” in so many of us — and the extremes to which it may drive us.
Brad Tomlin gazed at the martini on the rocks through murky eyes. It was his third. Or was it his fourth? He wasn’t sure, and what’s mare, he didn’t give a good fuck.
His gaze drifted up over the top of the glass to the blonde across the small table from him. Her large, full tits bulged underneath her tight blue sweater. His eyes wandered upward to the soft white skin of her slim neck, to her sensuous red lips and then to her soft blue eyes.
They stared silently at each other for a moment as Brad swirled the ice and the lone olive around in the bottom of his glass. She had been chattering on about something or other just a moment ago, but when she realized that Brad wasn’t listening to a word she said, she stopped abruptly in mid-sentence.
“I’m sorry, Angie,” Brad apologized. “What were you saying?”
“It doesn’t matter. I was just making conversation. What’s the matter, Brad, you look like you’re ready to have them stop the world so you can get off.”
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.
Note: This story is the same as catalog number CB-4031 in the original publications (a duplicate).