"Hey Wendy!" Chad yelled as he revved the engine. "Like my new toy?" It's nice, but loud enough to wake the dead!" she shouted back."Hop on!" he said ...miling."Come in for a minute." she said walking back inside.Chad shut off the bike and went inside. He grabbed a beer out of the fridge."Beer already?" Wendy asked looking at the clock.They had been friends for years and this was no surprise to her. It was always Miller Time for Chad."Come on girl, let's go for a ride." I need to shower first, I. Everyone was wearing dresses except Michael who wore a suit. Johnny told me later that they usually wore tuxes, but they wore suits tonight because they didn't want Hank to feel second class or anything. He said Hank would be in a tux at the next dance. (He was.)When we were all seated, Michael officially welcomed us. It was nice. Then we ate. Dinner was wonderful. We had the best tasting cream of potato soup ever and a salad with the best ranch dressing to start. Then we had grilled chicken. He wanted to talk to Tatiana, Nora, probably Cord or Barry – one of the fraternity men, and maybe Cookie. The first to come into his sight was Cord. He was carrying a laptop and several books. He stopped at one of the high-top tables and started to set up to work beside the pool.“Good morning, Cord. What’s up?”“Dave! Hi. I have a creative writing exercise to write – a whole story in a thousand words or less; about three pages or less, more or less single-spaced.”“Got a topic?”“I was going to. In times of drought bison bulls tried, but were always swept away and drowned.Inside the cave, the wise woman made a fire. The women roasted some meat over the cooking fire and smoked most of it over a small fire in the back of the cave. Big slabs of bark made a conical roof over the smoking fire. The smoke curled out of the pointed top of the roof and a crack in the rock carried the smoke out of the cave.There were many trees along the bluffs. A large number were what we call oaks today. They.