/authors/dego/ Recent content in Dego on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/60078/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/60078/ <p><em><strong>Author's Note:</strong> Comments very welcome</em></p> <p><strong>Part 1</strong></p> <p>He typed in the address of the site on the gift certificate that he found when clearing out his late uncle Tom&rsquo;s belongings. There had been quite a few really interesting things to keep, and as a poor student he could use things others wouldn&rsquo;t be all that interested in, of course. His mother had given him free reign anyway, since it saved her a long trip from Dallas to San Francisco, and he was only half a day away, north of LA. She had not been very close to her younger brother, but his death at a young age when driving off a coastal cliff in his new Porsche convertible had nevertheless been quite a shock. Best of it for him, when clearing his uncle&rsquo;s condo out had been finding a two year old Chevrolet Tahoe. It was slightly dented, but still, a vast improvement on the 14 year old Honda Civic with the airco kaputt. Yet he even got $200 for it selling his old banger on the spot. It had been a matter of loading the stuff he had wanted to keep, and getting the rest to the dump. A U-haul trailer had been needed though. The condo had been put on the market now, and the proceeds would be going to his mother, obviously.</p>