His face, back, and the backs of his arms and legs looked like chopped meat. Maybe that’s why he died in such a short period of time. I’ve never s...en a person die like he did. He didn’t scream, he didn’t plead for mercy, he didn’t swear at us. It was most strange. And speaking of strange, I’ve never seen weather like we had that day. It started out like a normal day, the sun came up, it was hot, dry, and dusty with no wind to speak of. Then, about noon it became very, very dark. I’ve seen. That winter I went back to work for the trucking company. On a trip while flying with Bill, I have seen an old abandoned mining camp that sat beside a lake it had rolling hills and mountains on one side and downstream from the lake, a lot of swampland. Checking into the property, I found that it had been abandoned. Bill and I landed on the lake and checked out the property, on a trip to a remote village. The hills around the lake were full of game. The lake was teeming with fish, downstream. __________________________________________________________________________ “Everet I love you but this living with multiple women and not really being tied to any of them has to stop,” Everet’s Mother told him “Allow me to remind you of something,” Everet told her sternly. “What?” his Mother asked. “You have no business telling me how to live,” Everet said “Bullshit, I don’t! I’m your Mother!” She replied hotly. “No, your the dumb hippie bitch who refused to speak to me for over a decade. " She walked closer,swinging her hips. When I glanced past her, I could see that every boywas rubbing his swollen crotch with a dull glazed look on their faces."What else was I supposed to do?" I asked.She giggled again. "That depends. See, Stephen had no problem steppingon people to get ahead in life. And when someone crossed him. Or hethought someone had crossed him, he destroyed them."My mouth dropped open. My crazy ex-girlfriend was right. I had been oneroyal bastard over the years."I'm.