Yes. Absolutely yes. There is an immense amount of emotion - of passion - in this piece, and you let it flow perfectly. Laura's desperate roughness and Bill's return of all-consuming gentleness was perfectly pitched. It's fiction about fictional characters, but the motivations and responses ring very true. Yet another of your stories well worth reading more than once. Thanks!

Brilliant and sexy. You left me smiling with your occasional oh-so-subtle turn of phrase; it reads effortlessly.

And what wonderous metaphor work. Lord... someone else could have made the snake bit terribly, terribly corny, but you always make it seem natural.