’ I looked at Death, a shadowy figure cloaked in his robe standing there almost ready to part Grace and I from the lover’s perfect world. Grace pu...led the pointed shaft of wood out of my chest, leaving me on the ground, coughing and shaking. She stared at the tip streaming with rivers of bl**d. The night air swirled into the hole in my chest. I kept my eyes closed. The clatter of the fence piece had Grace crying over my body yet again. Her warm tears splashed over the gaping wound in my chest.. ‘This is a notice from the bank. They are taking the house.’ I am twenty three years old and thrown out of my parents’ home. They are being thrown out too. They won’t survive Christmas. I decide that I will. * ‘Did your husband ever discuss his business with you?’ Shaking my head. ‘For the last three years, your husband has received a pension – call it charity if you like – from some of his former business associates.’ ‘Charity?’ Damn it, my voice is breaking. ‘He sold his company at the price. "The car, a '72 AMC Hornet, was no hot rod, but it was in pretty good shape when Jennifer got it. She'd been careful with it, and things went pretty good for the first year, until Garth, the next Evachevski kid in line, got his driver's license. There were some squabbles at first, but Gil ruled that the senior kid got dibs on the use of the car, but the senior kid lost rights to it when they left for college. Since the gap between Garth and the next kid, Brandy, was the largest among the five. At the moment, they were looking for more daddy long legs spiders, since they wanted more pipe, and that spider's legs were ideal for the job.They had already killed two of the spiders, so they had 16 sections of pipe. With the pipe they already had at home, this was nearly enough to do their job. One more spider should be enough. Julie wanted an indoor flush toilet, and Jeff vowed to make one for her for her birthday. Actually, this would not be the flush toilet that they had been used to, but.