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"The Bodyworker" Serial Novel Timeline & Chapter Synopses
   Hello!  The following is meant to serve as a general timeline guide to
"The Bodyworker" series, following the main protagonist, Eric Woods,
through his career as professional sex surrogate and therapeutic
"bodyworker".  If you have any questions or comments, please send them to
me through the form-mail link at the end of this guide, or send them to me
at "planet_dweller AT yahoo DOT com", substituting punctuation symbols for
the words "at" and "dot".
   In a serialized novel like "The Bodyworker", which I have been writing
literally since 1998, it's almost impossible to keep track of the myriad of
characters and situations that come and go interweavingly through the
progression of the structure, which is why I've spent the time to document
the timeline and will also create lists of major players, minor players,
and locales.
   Thanks again for reading and enjoying "Bodyworker" and my other works!,
Yours, PlanetDweller
   Notes: "Raleigh" means the location is in Raleigh, North Carolina,
Raleigh being the
capitol city of the state of North Carolina; "Cary" means the nearby
community of Cary, N.C.; "Durham" means the city which is the third leg of
the Research Triangle Park triangle, thirty miles to the west of Raleigh;
"Rockport" is a fictionalized coastal city in Maine; "MT" means "massage
therapy"; "TM" means "therapy models", or people who work under the
direction of a bodyworking therapist as live sex models with the
therapist's patients, as prescribed for by the psychiatrist in charge of
all.
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   {Chapter 1}
   ? Eric Woods goes to work at Rex Hospital at age 19 in 1989, stays there
seven years, earns his LPN certification while there. ? Going to school at
night and on weekends, earns his LMT/Licensed Massage Therapist
certification at the Carolus School Of Massage in nearby Durham, NC. ? Root
timeline anchor: early 1997. ? After looking for a job as an LMT for six
months, Eric finally gets a job at Raleigh Sports Injury Clinic, stays
there for two years working as an LMT. ? Dr.  Carol Stein becomes an MT
patient of Eric's. ? Dr.  Stein persuades Eric to see her off-the-clock at
her office, her time with him being his "audition" for her eventual offer
to him. ? Flashback references to his initial meeting with Dr.  Carol to
two years and some months previous to his current writing perspective. ?
Dr. Stein and one of her two therapy practice partners, Dr.  Forberg, make
their initial proposition and proposal for him to become trained as a
"bodyworker" and join their practice as such.
   {Chapter 2}
   ? Dr.'s Stein and Forberg give Eric a series of bodyworking aptitude and
screening tests. ? On the flight up to Long Island, New York to attend his
bodyworking training class, the seatmate next to him turns out to be Margot
K.  Knight, who will eventually become his first therapy practice partner.
   {Chapter 3}
   ? Eric attends his class at the Polykinetic Bodyworking Institute's
facility in Roslyn Harbour, New York, on Long Island.
   {Chapter 6}
   ? Eric and his sole male classmate Nick bond at Mom's Restaurant in
Roslyn Harbour. ? Margot buys her and Eric a pair of matching "Pals
Forever" dogtags.
   {Chapter 7}
   ? Eric refuses to be anally penetrated by a dildo as a required part of
his bodyworker training and has a "crisis of faith" which is professionally
and caringly resolved by Dr.  Hugo Chaim who owns PBI and who founded the
modern polykinetic bodyworking movement. ?
   {Chapter 9}
   ? Eric has his first experience with the Dunbars, a family of therapy
models who passionately believe in the practice of bodyworking therapy as a
healing modality.
   {Chapter 10}
   ? Eric has a hot male-dominant female-submissive BDSM scene with Libby
who is his Senior Instructor at the PBI School.
   {Chapter 11}
   ? Eric and fellow classmates Nick and Keiko have a nice, full-blown
threesome where he bonds further with Nick on another level entirely. ?
Eric and classmates and roomies Margot, Gwen and Keiko all have a sensuous
KFC fried chicken orgy. ? Eric discovers a special talent he can do with
his pelvic muscles and cock and demonstrates his new-found ability to all
his classmates and Dr.  and Mrs.  Chaim.
   {Chapter 12}
   ? "Live" patient contact and training at a retirement home in Manhattan.
   {Chapter 13}
   ? More live patient training with curmudgeonly married couple Al & Judy
at the retirement home, and with paraplegic bitch-on-wheelchair-wheels Kris
at a nearby assisted-living center.
   {Chapter 14}
   ? Eddie & Susan are a young brother and sister "couple" who love each
other completely and romantically and who both suffer from terminal
conditions and live in a hospice.  Eric & Margot show them "the ways of
love" and Eric "marries" them in a real tear-jerker of a scene.
   {Chapter 15}
   ? Eric & Margot return home to Raleigh after successfully completing
their bodyworking training. ? In the little over a week's time that Eric &
Margot were at the PBI School in Roslyn Harbour, Dr.'s Stein & Forberg
"sold" them to Dr.  Nicholas Samiatakis, a fellow psychiatrist with a huge
patient following in the Raleigh and central North Carolina region. ? Eric
& Margot accept Dr.  Nick's offer of employment within his practice aegis
and move into their new home and office in nearby Cary, N.C.
   {Chapter 17}
   ? Connie, the last legacy therapist left of Dr.'s Stein & Forberg's old
practice who is getting ready to get married soon and leave bodyworking as
a profession behind agrees to stay a few weeks more, long enough to mentor
Eric & Margot through those first few difficult cases, hugging and scolding
them as they begin to get their sea legs.
   {Chapter 19}
   ? Connie gets married, Eric & Margot attend her wedding. ? Eric & Margot
have a paid "working vacation" with the Siegfield family.
   {Chapter 21}
   ? Storyline jumps forward to the next root timeline anchor of January,
1999. ? Alexa, Eric's primary therapy partner for the past year after
Margot moved on, prepares to move on herself to a practice in Denver,
Colorada. ? Marilyn S.  Lepac is "auditioned" by Eric and the existing
staff of female bodyworkers to see if she might be a good replacement
candidate for Alexa.
   {Chapter 22}
   ? February, 1999; Alexa departs for Denver, Marilyn arrives back from
her training at the PBI School. ? Eric & Marilyn have a "working vacation"
weekend with the Dooley family in Rocky Mount, N.C., the weekend not
turning out well for anyone involved.
   {Chapter 23}
   ? Eric reveals to his now-therapy partner Marilyn the secrets of his
private office, mainly that all the therapy treatment rooms are completely
wired for both video and audio surveillance; also the existence of PBI's
private extranet tied in with the main headquarters in Roslyn Harbour.
   {Chapter 24}
   ? Storyline jumps forward to the next root timeline anchor of
fall/winter 2001. ? Eric is offered the position of Chief Administrator of
the massively new large bodyworking therapy complex that Dr.  Nick and Dr.
Chaim plan to open near Rex Hospital in Raleigh, but turns it down because
he's afraid it will take too much time away from his patients. ? Eric meets
Mary, a newly fresh graduate of the PBI School who comes down to look over
the old and new facilities and hopefully work with Eric as his main therapy
partner. ? Eric and Mary fall instantly and completely in love at first
sight, Eric proposing almost immediately and she accepting. ? Eric resigns
from Dr.  Nick's practice and the two of them accept positions at a dormant
if not nearly-dead practice in Rockport, Maine, then 9-11 happens. ? Eric &
fiancé' Mary move up to Rockport to begin their new lives together, but in
life as well as in fiction, no road to happiness is without twists and
turns and blind curves, it's just a matter of how well you keep your eye on
the road and your hands on the wheel.



   
  
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