/authors/schlock/ Recent content in Schlock on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/78908/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/78908/ <p><em><strong>Author's Note:</strong> A first posting from me, and obviously incomplete. A lot of fun elements I&rsquo;d love to have in the future, and some foreshadowing of things to come.</em></p> <p><strong>Part 1</strong></p> <p>Andy fell in love with the property the very first time he saw it. The house was nice enough, an old sprawling rancher with oddly shaped rooms and hallways all over. The house itself was only a portion of the reason that he fell in love with the property however. The house was completely isolated from the rest of his neighbors, the closest one being several miles away. There was also a well built barbed wire fence around the entire perimeter of the rolling acres. He wanted the isolation for planned project, and he knew that there was very little chance of anyone stumbling across him.</p>