She was standing right at the edge, I just gave her a little tickle to send her over." And rubbish right back. She was standing there for a long damn ...ime. Lost and miserable, wearing that 'my life is just fine' mask over the darkness inside. And it wasn't about being queer, though that certainly added to the burden. I told you it went deeper than that. She was the smart one, the overachiever, but always lived in the shadows, full of self doubt, unable to trust her own thoughts and feelings.. The state was willing to provide a couple dozen young roe deer to establish a new breeding colony. I had to get the seed for the fodder in the ground yet, so early August was the soonest that I'd be able to accept delivery. I got the clover, inoculate and protein seed mix on order. I'd need a hay loft for feeding the deer next winter. I notified my contractor that I'd need a larger brick barn with a hay loft erected in a field across the island. It was a good time to start as the ground was. Watching Kim get off her horse, he appreciated the sight of her heart shaped ass packaged in tight fitting blue jeans. She caught him watching and shook her head while wearing a crooked smile. Dismounting, Ed tied the horse to a scrub brush and walked around the horses stretching his back.Looking around, he said, “It’s grand out here, isn’t it?”She looked up at the sky and said, “The desert is the only place I ever see a sky of that particular blue.”“I know what you mean. It’s so large out here. Putting his mug down, Alan leaned close to Dan, coffee almost defeating the last of his beer fumes. ‘Yeah, you should be so lucky with that lil’ girl cookin’ fer ya tonight,’ his eyes started to dance and his lips puckered, ‘Mebbe it’s time yer teeny weenie got sum action. Gonna try ta fucker?’ Dan looked away, blushing, and the door opened. The newcomer could have been Alan’s brother, as tall as Alan, much thinner, in his mid 40’s, clean shaven with close cropped dark hair. He wore a short.