44 off the counter. He was about to leave when Browning stopped him."You know, young man," Browning began, "I can trim the trigger pull on both of the... for a dollar, too." How long will that take?" he asked."I can have them ready for you by ten o'clock tomorrow morning" Browning replied."That will be great. Let's do it," David said.He shook hands with Mr. Browning and left his weapons with Browning to be converted and adjusted. David left the shop and headed to the restaurant, which was. They are really beginning to resent my attitude, as they think it’s my fault I haven’t conceived and my mother was determinedly on Rodney’s side,” she confided as a tear rolled down her face.“If you could put up with my cooking, we could eat together here on Christmas Day,” he suggested, then putting a little more steel in his voice he added as more of an order than a suggestion, “or I could book us a Christmas lunch somewhere?”“Either of those would be lovely,” she replied, “I’ll leave it up. June 2008There was a knock at the door; more of an insistent banging than a knockreally.Petra was sitting at her desk writing a short story for a magazine."Who is it?" Petra called, annoyed at being disturbed."David it's Marie; let me in please," came a muffled voice from beyondthe door."David isn't here," Petra called back, hardly taking her eyes off thescreen.Marie hammered on the door, harder this time."David please let me in; we have to talk!" Marie demanded.Petra got up, stormed across the. So I had to beat the guy up, after school. I know he wasn't really seriously saying he thought I was gay, but I couldn't let something like that go without a fight. That evening I borrowed a car from a buddy of mine, and some other stuff, and I got things set up out in the woods. I had to put a stop to this. Friday afternoon, I drove the car out to Johnny's house. I put on some gardening gloves, and I went right in the front door and into his bedroom. I grabbed him and dragged him out of the.