”“Hello.” The word caught in her throat. Her mouth and throat were dry. Lisa knew she sounded like shit.She heard Cindy’s voice, “Lisa?”Li...a put her hand over the phone to mute her voice. She looked to Steve, “Water, please?”She heard Cindy’s voice again as Steve raced from the room, “Lisa, you there?”Lisa tried to wet her lips with little results, “Hey Cindy.”“Wow! You sound terrible, Lisa. Are you ok?”“Yea, I’m ok. Just a little too much to drink. I guess you were there.”Steve returned with a. . it was sensually intoxicating, yet mentally anguishing to her at the same time! Yes, yes, he was punishing her to the fullest... chastising both of them... but did they deserve it? How could she tell him what had really happened the night before, or how the naked embrace he had caught Carol and her in had come about? Did he know that Caesar, her beautiful animal- lover, had been there with them? She doubted it; he would have screamed it out had he known! But instead he was gasping lustful. "The intruder, not having spoken yet in Aubrey's presence, waved the gun around as if to emphasize the point I was making on his behalf."Daddy, I've never even had sex. Doesn't it hurt? Won't I get pregnant? Daddy, I'm afraid." Oh, Sweetheart, I wish there was something else we could do, but there isn't. Yes, it might hurt a bit the first time, but not too badly if you relax and don't fight it. And it does feel better later — otherwise no one would have sex, right?" She nodded slightly. "Honey,. Something witty. Or perhaps he should use a different word to describe the former Chancellor of the Exchequer? Then again, 'cunt', unlike 'bastard', 'motherfucker' or 'arsehole', possessed exactly the degree of contempt that Psychlone wished to express.When his lyric was conveyed from his laptop along with the software-generated symphonic orchestration to his hundreds of millions of downloaders, he knew that a little word like that could propel it into the international chart of the top one.