Where did all the women go? Were they hiding somewhere, not necessarily under a rock but in the arms of other men? He heard his feet rubbing in the te...der snow, and as the brain rotated in circular thought, he figured he needed help, because he knew not where he was.He had been awake for two straight days occupied in thought, as though each second carried a profound weight. The women, like strangers, had left him. The cars had gone to sleep along the side of the street. The wind died and the. Eventually, her ass meets the edge of a dining table and he pulls away from the kiss to press her down. She scoots back bringing her legs up to rest her bare feet on the surface, knees bent. She angles her head in a sidelong gaze down toward him.In an instant, the whole experience becomes surreal, as if the scene is playing out by two people she knows very little about. Strangers to one another. Perhaps, strangers to themselves. She begins to question it, but why now? Is it because she is lying. Welcome to the clinic."Other than Kevin, she had never before received a gift from a man and since they were married, Kevin's gifts had dropped to Christmas, her birthday and their anniversary, when he didn't forget, which he had this past year.When Richard arrived later that morning she thanked him profusely and her heart fluttered when he smiled and told her how much she brightened up the clinic simply by being there.Later that day she was typing up one of the transcriptions and could not. There would be at least hundreds of other boxes to store. To save room, they stored their cereals, crackers, certain breads, and other grain products into plastic containers that were water proof and did not allow humidity to seep in. They also planned to stock all kinds of meats into the freezer along with many kinds of frozen products, even ice cream.Tim paid a reliable man to set up a series of smaller batteries that would click on if the main one ever lost power. Also he had five self.