An Author's Angst

Venia's world has revolved around words as long as she can remember. She used words of love with her first husband and used words of comfort to ease their daughter's pain at his untimely death. As a mentor in the spanking community of Corbin's Bend, she's called upon her extensive experience with words to both soothe, comfort, scold, and coax those newly arrived residents. Hosting the local book club for the taken-in-hands of the community gives her an opportunity to add more words to her vocabulary. She absolutely adores words until the day they disappear. Facing a severe case of writer's block, she is feeling lost until she makes a decision. If the words won't come to her, she'lll go to them.Deciding to strike out in a new direction, her next book will focus on the horrifying aspect of some scientific experiment going terribly wrong. All she needs is a bit of help and finds it in Dina, after all, who better than a chemist to give her some very scary facts. Dina, like everyone...