THE STORY THAT FOLLOWSThe story that follows was written under the most dire of circumstances, one whose completion left me feeling spent and abandoned. True, though you willingly purchased this new paperback romance novel by Barry Bartholomew, a pseudonym I created for this novel, His Sublime Kisses, I do wish to apologize for the delay in getting it to you. However, I want you to understand why it is necessary for me to use these measures. You see, I wish to terrorize you and then kill you, and this is the only method that came to mind, given such short notice concerning my intentions. What I mean to say is that this desire to terrorize you came suddenly while I was engaged in my morning ritual. I must stop my narrative, at this point, to confess to you that some of the best ideas do, in
