A story of captivity and domination, power and enslavement...one small mistake and a life is gone...He called at the house where the two girls lived on a thundery, summer's evening. He intended no harm, and meant no offence but he touched something that is perilous to disturb, deadly to provoke, and utterly vain to resist. Soon he was trapped, his life no longer his own, his choices irrelevant.He attempted to flee but it did him no good; he begged but it gained him nothing; he wept but only met bitterly scornful laughter: he was helpless before the Power which now held him - fierce and vengeful, beautiful and final. He knew this was his life now, he knew it in his heart...nevermore to sleep..Word count': 8,546