INTRODUCTION

"Feelings," the first of the three Night Visions stories, came easily. It's a simple just-deserts-cum-voodoo tale, based on a real-life malpractice scam in Florida.

I set the story in the imaginary Long Island north shore Gold Coast town I'd created in 1985 while writing The Touch. I'd put a lot of work into The Incorporated Village of Monroe then, going so far as to draw a map of the waterfront and the downtown area. I knew it almost like my own hometown. A good place for a yuppie ambulance chaser to live if he had roots on the Island.

For those of you who get off on interstory connections, the very fact that it's set in Monroe ties "Feelings" and the other two stories in the triptych to The Adversary Cycle-, and you'll notice Dr. Walter Johnson mentions his brother, a GP who remained in their hometown, "a foggy little place on the coast..." That other Doc Johnson practices in Greystone Bay. Some readers might recall that Howard's father is the lead character in "The Last One Mo' Once Golden Oldies Revival".

Writing this one was almost as enjoyable as writing "Cuts."