New Preview from "Explicitly Yours..."

"...The even crazier thing is that when I got there, I stared at his door, turned my body and walked back home. I called him from my cell phone on the way back, walking and talking, out of breath with my headset on and told him that he would see me the next day. Asked him if he was entertaining company for the holidays and before I could tell him or ask anything else he asked what was wrong. I couldn’t speak. Stabbed by a sharp pain in my lower back that ran straight down my left leg to the tip of my left big toe. The cold air rushing through my nose, throat, and open ears just stifled me. Everything started getting dark and blurry, my head started to spin and I had to sit down. I grabbed for the nearest stoop and sat on the brownstone steps of a stranger. I couldn’t worry about the warm liquid of red blood that surrounded me, spilling down my legs. I was too caught up in the feeling of misery in my head and back. And that was it. I believe the next words out of my mouth were, “Come get me.”