..   It woke up biting cold and rain pouring from the pierced sky, where to go in the dark here it is a question, it was dark there, dull, and t...ere it was dark, streams of rain flooded my eyes. Dreams haunted the trees falling into a chasm after a clay excavation, my imagination brought an impenetrable swamp under my feet, a group of vipers forest, a pack of wolves in the trees and a lot of scary variants. There were lights in the distance, better than that the gayness of nonexistence, he. .. “the girls’ vote is unanimous, 6-0. Thanks, Meka, for making the math simple.”There was a bit of chuckling.“All right, all right. If you’re gonna get our daughters to gang up on me, you win, Inez.”Sandy followed that with a grin at and a hug of Inez.Meka piped up, asking, “Who’s riding with me to pick up Brett and the other girls?”Rhee answered, “Since Beth and I know the pre-grocery-run planning stuff at least a bit better than the rest, we should stay here to help with that. Is that okay. I remembered the day she had first called me Rose with mixed feelings of sadness and relief, since it was also the first time she had accidently seen some lingering bruises on my body. I followed her into her luxurious rooms and sat down in the soft and comfortable chair in the corner, waiting for her standard comment about the frequency with which I visited her. ‘You know you don’t have to come here every week, don’t you?’ she said with her accompanying smile. I smiled back at her and shook. I asked Ruth if shecould drive, but she looked in worse shape than I was. Suddenly it struck me,what had he put in that drink? My stomach was turning, my head was spinning,my knees were about to give out. Ruth sort of slumped into the passenger seat,her long legs hanging out of the car. Suddenly, there was Bubba 1 and Bubba2. The last thing I remember is being picked up and thrown into the back ofa pickup truck that smelled of dead fish. A lifeless sack of flesh landed nextto me, Ruth, and a.