James obeyed. He heard the door creak open and allowed her to pull him through the doorway. ‘Open them!’ she bade him in her soft voice. As James ...ried to adjust his vision to the darkness, he peered toward the bed. He barely made out a figure there, and wondered how Vicki had got on it so fast when he thought that she was standing beside him. The hiss of a striking match broke the silence. The glow of a newly lit candle pierced the room. It all happened too fast for James to realize that he. This, and the fact that my parents lived at more than one-and-a-half hours driving distance, caused that these visits soon became less and less frequent. One of my colleagues told me about a group of foreign women, meeting regularly, learning about our language, our culture and our habits together. This as more of Mehret’s liking, and she started to look forward to these meetings, which, unfortunately, were only two hours a week. They also met some other Ethiopians, but after a short period of. A crack in the asphalt caught the heel of Steve’s boot. He stumbled and fell as a Taser’s twin barbs zipped past from his right, trailing a pair of loosely coiled wires. As Steve’s butt hit the ground, he centered his sights on the shooter’s torso. His pistol bucked twice, and two .45 caliber bullets punched through the target’s chest.Tires squealed as another State Police cruiser entered the parking lot.The DHS agent had his pistol in hand. He spun and double-tapped the other coverall-wearing. Our relationship had changed somehow. We still had our laughs but we were now closer than ever. We began to turn to each other for support whenever serious issues arose in our lives. Some might have seen this as a burden but I relished in it and wanted to hear about everything that was going on in her life. One snowy Tuesday in February she finally admitted that she felt closer to me than with Dave but it never went any further than that.However it was that very weekend I found myself in the.