<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>StrangeHobbies on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/authors/strangehobbies/</link><description>Recent content in StrangeHobbies on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/authors/strangehobbies/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Floating</title><link>/stories/2013/08/04/floating/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2013/08/04/floating/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As far as she could remember, she&amp;rsquo;d always been attracted to spa treatments and other alternative therapies. She never refused to try out new kinds whenever she got the chance. Over the years she&amp;rsquo;d experimented quite a variety: mudpacks, body wraps, various sorts of baths… When planning her vacations it wasn&amp;rsquo;t rare for her to take into consideration the kinds of treatments available wherever she might be going. This had been a good excuse to visit somewhat distant places. On occasions she&amp;rsquo;s been covered from neck down in thick clay or seaweed paste, wrapped tightly in plastic film and reflective foil, and left to lie for a while as her body was purified by the process – so it was claimed. Her slimy body quickly heating up due to the layers of insulation, the feeling of sliding around inside the plastic sheath had proved most tantalising.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lonely Girl Mummified</title><link>/stories/2011/11/13/lonely-girl-mummified/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2011/11/13/lonely-girl-mummified/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://strangehobbies.deviantart.com/"&gt;http://strangehobbies.deviantart.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Part 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That day, I woke up utterly unable to move. Except for my breathing everything was completely silent and I could not see a thing. The last event I could recall was going out to the movies on my own to watch a mediocre film. I could not even remember how it ended. Maybe I&amp;rsquo;d fallen asleep before the end. The trouble was, I had absolutely no memory of what might have happened afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>