"Feel-U-Feel-Me" Novel by Stewart and Rebecka Dickson

"Oh, well," She shakes her head and continues walking to the front of the house, then out the door, down the walk and across the driveway to her car -- a red convertible. She gets in and she's off... Out of the driveway she goes. Out of the neighborhood of manicured lawns, onto the road through a canyon going inland from a Northern California coast. The trees she drives under have the wild look they get from the years of relentless trade winds blowing off the Pacific ocean.

She passes a squalid, squatter's settlement -- It is a jarring moment of contrast -- Julia's visual perfection in her little red Bemur in the midst of this FILTH. It's so sad, she thinks. In just a few short years, things have gotten so bad for so many people. But she and Ben are on the other side -- the side whose work did not fail.