A small church had opened up in low town and was offering free meals along with a sermon to whomever was willing to sit through the often vitriolic ra...ting of the local priest. Kat had gone several times, when money was short, but could never grasp exactly what they thought would happen if everyone had unlimited access to any tech they could get their hands on. They seemed more anarchist than humanist and, while Kat had personal experience with corruptibility of government and the misuse of. He was in Athletic Management but his goal was to be a head football coach somewhere and it began at the areas small NAIA school as an assistant. Right out of college, he got the job. He was good. His name floated around. It was circling in and out of other schools and before he knew it a Division II school was coming to call on him. Meanwhile, as he worked the sidelines of the NAIA football program, Theresa worked the lines in the same school’s Athletic Department. Back in her day, she played. ‘Honestly Jo, it was Mike’s idea but I thought it was a good one. You said, you remember, that you felt a little bit down last week so I thought this would help. I knew that Mike wouldn’t suggest it if he didn’t have someone in mind.’ ‘Yes, I did. You must have guessed by now that that was Guy. We knew you wouldn’t take to a man who wasn’t ‘nice’, you know, unthreatening, and Guy is such a nice man. I knew we couldn’t throw you at him but I knew you would meet last night at the party. All I did. The drive wheels on the Locke spun, covering me head to toe in black and red mud. The tractor pulled the Locke forward and it was now out of the deep mud and running by itself. I scrambled to catch it and managed to get it in neutral when I slipped again, and again. Maggie pulled the mower a good hundred yards onto firm ground before shutting the tractor and the mower down.I lounged there in some mud, resting comfortably under a shady oak. Maggie trotted back to me, laughing and cackling and.