The ground beneath her feet melts away and she is falling. She screams, but she is hurtling down so fast that no sound comes out. Spinning and twistin... in the blackness, until she hits the ground with a jolt.____________________________________________________________________________She sits bolt upright. Her heart beating fast in her chest, her skin covered in sweat, all the hairs on her body are standing to attention. She still feels the tight ball of fear in her stomach. She looks around. "We had watched the happenings on the surface. The virus killed everything – people, animals, birds, anything on land. Perhaps in the sea also. We couldn't be sure of that. We had no idea how long it would last either. Many lost all hope, and simply opened their quarters or ship to space and also died. Some remained. My parents and grandparents were among them. My parents were babies at the time."Those remaining decided that their best chance of survival was to leave the Eros system, and. "Well, after my divorce, I wanted to get away from Grand Rapids and the painful memories and get a fresh start. I was an RN back there and now I have a job at Saint Alexius Hospital on South Broadway Ave." I take it the divorce was not a pleasant one? You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." No, it's okay. I'm past all the grieving now. It happened about a year ago now. I caught my ex-husband cheating on me with some bimbo secretary from a company he dealt with. "I found her. A painful smack hit him across his head. He couldn’t make out who was there in the pitch dark. “You like being a fucking cum slut, disgusting pig? You enjoy being spread open all over the floor like some fucking crack whore?”Todd tried lifting his arm. He weakly grasped something.“You are a worthless piss of shit!”“Look , all he can think of is cock.”“Can’t believe that after smacking him a few times all he does is grab your dick.”“I guess he does want us to put him out of his misery.”“Well.