Somehow, the fiery Joshua tree linked the curse in the ground to the air, whatever they meant by that. I know outsiders will think I’m silly for bel...eving in such hocus pocus, but this is Joshua Tree, and generations have seen this curse come true again and again. Every twenty years, a Miller woman disappears. Karla, her mother, aunts, grandmothers. Being unrelated to the Miller’s around here, I’m supposed to be safe from The Curse. Karla’s mother married Hank at nineteen, and had just turned. I needed a job!So did most of the school age kids in the town. So there weren’t enough to go round. The only one I was offered was in the bookshop. Kevin got a job in the record store (but then his cousin was the manager). Jiz (Jeremy if you wanted to wind him up) got a job in the petrol station – 9pm to 1am everyday, he was rolling in money, and slept through many lessons. I got the bookshop. Not just any bookshop, the Christian bookshop.Originally founded by Mrs Catterick, the pastor’s wife –. Ek somoy ter pelam hothat zeno Ruby chup hoye gelo. O amar hatta khamche dhorlo ar ami ter pelam or guder vitore horhor kore mal asche. Bujhlam Rubyr orgasm hoche.darun, ekbar guder jol khosano gelo. Dekhi doggy positione lagiye arekbar khosano zay kina. Ami Rubyr male makhamakhi amar chokchoke lawrata ber kore anlam. Dekhi ota zeno furtir chote aro lomba, mota hoye geche. Rubyke bollam, ?nao ebar doggy how? o obak hoye jigges korlo, ?ki hobo?? ?doggy chenona? Accha tumi hamaguri debarmoto kore. Abernathy had absolutely no qualms aboutmaking his wife do outrageous sexual acts with the men and women heblackmailed. Now that he was no longer of this world she was free totake his place. The big difference between her and her husband was thather mind was really twisted and evil. She didn't want to settle for alittle blackmail money. No, she wanted all that she could get from hermarks and then some, preferably if it destroyed their lives. She wantedthem to suffer the indignities she had.