Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:53:00 +0100 From: Alex Hawk Subject:
2-D 2-D By Alex Hawk "Wow," Danny said. "Yeah..." I replied. We
were standing barefoot on the beach. Our first-ever real beach.
Oh, we'd been to a couple rivers and a couple lakes, and of
course lots of swimming pools and suchlike. But now we were on a
real, honest-to-goodness, ocean beach. And we had it all to
ourselves. We were on the island of Johtom. It was a small,
privately owned island in the US Virgin Islands chain. We were
at the extreme southern end of the Islands, and on the southern
part of the island as well. Normally we lived in Des Moines,
Iowa. A nice place, but not known for its grand oceanic views.
We'd lived there our entire lives, and hadn't even left the
state, except for occasional trips to St Louis or Chicago. Our
mother worked for a very large law-firm in Des Moines. She'd
been there for years and was apparently standing a good chance
of making partner. This chance was enhanced, no doubt, by the
fact that she'd just settled