Incubus

by Ann Arensberg

  Immersed in the natural world, its cycles and hazards, I will lose any memory or inkling of the worlds beyond it. Working off my pledge all winter in Henry’s laboratory, I will be obliged to confront the truth as his research shows it. He believes new lands are intersecting with ours at an increasing rate. In twenty-three years our geographic and psychic boundaries will be all but obliterated. I would like to think his figures are a product of personal bias, a classic case of the experimenter influencing the experiment. Which of us is right? Henry is farseeing, while I am prosaic and shortsighted. This globe, this cloistered earth, is the beginning and the end of my imagining.

  Dry Falls, Maine

  December 13, 1977

  About the Author

  Ann Arensberg was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Havana, Cuba. She worked as an editor at the Viking Press and E.P. Dutton. She is the author of Sister Wolf, which won the National Book Award for Best First Novel in 1981; Group Sex; and Incubus. Her short fiction has been included in the O. Henry Awards Prize Stories anthologies. She is currently finishing her fourth novel. She and her husband, Richard Grossman, are residents of Salisbury, Connecticut.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1999 by Ann Eveleth Arensberg

  Cover design by Kat Lee

  ISBN: 978-1-4804-0124-2

  This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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