Nathan E. Lewis

Chapter Two

Chapter Three
On a sunny afternoon the three little pigs ventured a visit to town to the loft of their urbanite uncle living in the penthouse suite overlooking the river. They told him of their fear and he highly recommended to them the hypnotist in town. He told them of his own fear of H1N1. This hypnotist, Dr. Bo Vine had successfully connected him to points in his past and in his subconscious, the seeds of his fear, helping him to face them and properly deal with them.
The third little pig immediately saw his need and promised to make an appointment with Dr. Bo Vine. He requested an extended visit with his uncle and the first and second little pigs said that they would never be able to make it home without the third little pig. Their understanding uncle invited them to stay as long as they needed in his suite. They all agreed that the third little pig should make the first appointment, the remainder of them going on line to play WOW until it was their turn to see Dr. Bo Vine. The uncle said: “This is good for me. As you know, I have made my fortune hiring Chinese to play WOW for me. There’s good money to be made in the game but in the past few months I have been at a loss to hire additional players. I will hire the two of you.” The second little pig said that WOW would definitely increase his confidence and the third little pig said, “WOW will make me face my fears.”
Dr. Bo Vine didn’t say much. He listened to the third little pig for the entirety of the first hour, then set an appointment for hypnosis therapy the following week. The third little pig returned to his uncle’s pad to find his uncle and brother engrossed in the game. The uncle said, “Hey, use my laptop while I run down to the Mac Store to obtain an additional book so that we four can play simultaneously. They ordered out for Chinese. Then they ordered Dominos. The second little pig said, “This urban life is growing on me.” With his eyes fixed on the screen the first little pig said, “I’ll say. You hogged the whole pepperoni.”
The three little pigs were feeling good about themselves and it was all that the third little pig could do to sign off and go to his second appointment. Dr. Bo Vine asked him, “So, how has your week gone?” The third little pig told him about his WOW playing, talking non-stop and the Dr. Bo Vine listened for an hour and then said, “We must make an appointment for next week so that I can begin hypnosis. But WOW seems to be the perfect diversion.” The third little pig jumped up from the couch and skipped merrily on his way, his little hooves clicking merrily on the imported Italian cobblestone providing his uncle’s neighborhood the look and feel of an old world village.
The third little pig opened his Mac Book and re-entered the game. Soon he was engrossed in a world filled with good versus evil, a world of uncertainty, a dark world in which he discovered an amazing amount of control at his fingertips.