"I hope you get it, one of us young people need to show the higher-ups that we aren't like the others."Pamela smiled as she went around the pool, aski...g people. "Okay," I said as we asked the fourth person. "That's only because…" No," Pamela said, shaking her head. "No excuses." Okay," I nodded my defeat.Pamela had dropped out of the limelight six years ago. After her husband, a famed ice hockey player, was banned from the Olympic games for using illegal substances to boost his performance.He. Beg for it.Malik one of the older friends, grabbed her by the hair and put a knife to her neck. A mean looking guy for his age he looked like he meant business.I am gonna cut you bitch, that’s what a white piece of trash like you deserves.Malik put that knife down. Shawn’s uncle Lamont yelled.No, I am gonna cut her up.I am not gonna tell you again, step away.Malik backed away. Fuck U all, gutless Uncle Toms.Bitch, I’ll be back and we gonna have a real party, not like this bullshit.Fuck You. This was, for the most part, unlike her and it was somewhat liberating to not have a care in the world. Her watch was in her purse and her cell phone was turned off. She drove. ————————————————– His hands were tight on the steering wheel. On any other day traffic on route 9 would have been sparse, but today of all days, it was bumper to bumper at five miles an hour. The radio had given him all he needed to be convinced he would be at least three hours late, an overturned fuel truck with no. Four yellow dwarfs with systems ... one with seven planets in the comfort zone ... all moving at the same speed. It was as if they were tied by cord ... like a gaucho's bolo. Two even had moons ... plural."I think that looks a little like Los Angeles in gridlock. You know, when an astronomer speaks of near misses he's talking about a hundred thousand miles," Gary said. "That's probably ... whoa! See!" What?" Vee asked.That was a field of reasonably sized boulders almost like Saturn's Rings and.