Path: news1.netusa.net!usenet From: Paul Weimer Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated Subject: Story: Moments of Gold Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Date: 6 Feb 1997 20:30:12 GMT Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Lines: 59 Approved: Message-ID: <5ddf0k$upu@news.netusa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.netusa.net X-Acting-Moderator: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: Moments of Gold An Alternate Ashkes Story By Rayv and Jvstin Send all feedback to jvstin@admin.con2.com and misha@lightspeed.net Permission granted to freely distribute this as long as it is complete, and full credit is given. "Moments of Gold" I. The Meeting I sighed and squirmed a bit in my airline seat, still not believing that it was going to happen. I finally was going to see Elizabeth, in person, real. After so long! I had entered a contest on American Express' website--it was called E-Mail Pals London Encounter. The idea was that you and a person whom you correspond via e-mail but not real life were BOTH given a trip to London to finally meet, and to simply have a vacation. It was to be arranged, though, that if you turned out not to like the person you had been writing, that after the photo-ops and so forth, the two of you could essentially have seperate vacations. However, as Elizabeth said. "J, I don't think we are going to worry about that." You see, Elizabeth and I have a cyber romance. Distance is of course, the reason. I live in the Windy City, Chicago. Heart of the Midwest. I do some HTML, some java, stuff like that. Michael Jason is my name, although Elizabeth likes to call me Jason since I use that name on the Internet. Elizabeth works in the procuring section of the Charlotte Art Museum. Costumes, specifically. As you might expect from her name, she DOES like Medieval England. And, of course, her residence makes for great lines like wanting to spend time in her web... Anyway, we met on the Internet, and seemed like we had known each other for ages. Saying each other's thoughts, or typing I should say, and a very basic compatability. It was a crying shame that we lived too far apart to meet. So, since it is part of my job to be on the Internet to a high degree, I one day found a web page with the AMEX contest. And so I entered our names. I don't think they expected or really desired cyber-lovers, but I didn't expect to win, either. Imagine my surprise when we did. 6 days and 5 nights in the land of Shakespeare, Pubs and knights in shining armor. I had been to the wonderful city years before, on a trip with my older sister. Elizabeth, on the other hand, has not been much outside the Carolinas, except for a wonderful trip she gushed about to Washington D.C. As you might expect, the Smithsonian she found very appealing. Anyway, due to the way the flights were set up, I would arrive in Heathrow a couple of hours ahead of the plane Elizabeth was on. No chance even to go to the Hotel, however, since all the AMEX people were going to be in the airport, and waiting to photograph our meeting. Elizabeth and I agreed beforehand to simply go for the peck on the cheek. No need to freak out the kindly sponsors of this trip when we would finally meet. So, the plane finally landed, and a couple of greeters and chaperones later, I was in an office in the airport. Awaiting the signal to go back to th