WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

This book is for sale to ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

All sexually active characters in this work are 18 years of age or older.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover Design: Xavier Carter

Earth Mother © 2008 Xavier Carter

eXcessica publishing

All rights reserved

Earth Mother

By Xavier Carter

I had just moved into my new house with a backyard that bordered a national forest. I was unpacking the kitchen boxes looking out the window staring at the trees and the children riding their bikes down the path that led into the forest. The sun was shining and I so did not want to be inside putting things away.

Throwing my hands up in exasperation, I went upstairs to the bedroom and changed into my running clothes. What the hell, I might as well go for a short run before I went insane. Grabbing my cell phone, canteen, CD player and a power bar, I headed out the back door toward the path that lead into the woods. There was a bench at the entrance where I stretched all those muscles that need that kind of thing, and a map showing the route the path took through the forest.

I put my headphones on and switched on the music. The crashing sounds of Jimmy Hendrix cascaded into my brain as I started on my run. The path was wide and covered in crushed gravel. The running was easy to start as the path was on the flat. With each stride, I was deeper into the forest, the cool shadows inviting as the sun dappled path continued.

Rounding a bend in the path I was suddenly presented with a fork, to the left the path went deeper into the forest. To the right it skirted around the edge of the woods with a small pond on the right. Today I chose the path to the right, as there was a cool breeze off the lake. I finished my run right where I started, at the bench where the path came out of the woods at my backyard. In all I had run about four miles.
I stopped at the map to check where the left fork in the path went but there was no path shown on the map. It must have been an old path no longer in use, I shrugged my shoulders and headed into the house to shower and finish my unpacking. The day was fast becoming night and I had a lot to do.