”“Water I can understand, but energy? I thought you were one of the major oil producers in the world.”“We are, but modern cities utilize elect...icity, not oil. We also know our oil reserves aren’t infinite, and the security required to protect the oil fields from terrorists is becoming a nightmare. A few well-placed attacks by these fanatics could cut my country’s annual revenue by ten to thirty billion dollars. Of course, we’d eventually be able to repair the damage, but it’d take us decades to. They were asking any men who had had sex with her that night come forward both to assist with tracing her and to have a health check ... I began to feel a bit sick ... because she had been told at the hospital only that morning that she was HIV positive, after which her flat mate reportedly said "she totally lost it and trashed her room before going out to get drunk". Shaking I re-read the article hoping I had got got it wrong. I couldn't get out of my mind her bleeding cunt as I had. “I need to work on this!” He hung up.Marilyn asked, “What’s going on?”“Damned if I know. The Sun is doing something strange, I guess.” I grabbed my bathrobe and stumbled down the hall and went to the front door. I trudged down the driveway to the road. The newspaper was in a tube on the same post as our mailbox, and I had it open before I ever got back to the house. There it was, a quarter page article, just below the fold on the front page. ‘HERO CANDIDATE STOPS ASSAULT, SAVES DINER!’ There. . "It'll be BETTER! So much BETTER than before!John shuffled his mom the last few feet into her bedroom and turn on the light."Ummm... John? Could we leave the lights off please?" Janice felt like the child now, not the parent. John was the one in control."Why mom? It's not like I haven't seen you naked before you know. You made a show of parading around the house half dressed for the last few weeks... and now you expect me to believe you're shy?!"Janice kept her eyes lowered. She couldn't bear.