‘The shipment?’ he asked, heavily accented in that same tongue. ‘Two days,’ the first man replied. Another nod. ‘We will meet our contacts t...morrow morning to negotiate the exchange,’ the man in the robes stated. ‘When we return, it will be as like the dawning of a new day. Praise be.’ ‘Praise be,’ the first man replied formally. ‘Praise be!’ exclaimed the clean-shaven man. ‘Praise be,’ repeated the man in the robes with satisfaction on his face. Part One: Paradise It was another beautiful day:. The curtains were all closed and I’d removed the bulb from the main light in the room so I knew how I expected things to pan out.Practice makes perfect they say. That was certainly the case when it came to the handcuffs. I had her hands cuffed behind her before she knew what had happened. Her crying out for help did nothing but help me. While her mouth was open, it was easy to push the ball of the gag in. I slipped the elastic over her head then put the blindfold on. She didn’t start to put up. They chose to skip dessert. Matt paid the check, while Alessa took care of the tip. By mutual agreement, they chose to skip the movie, as well, and head to Matt’s apartment for the dope, and then to Bennie’s Beer and Wine for a 12-pack of Heineken. Matt drank nothing else, and Heineken was Alessa’s beer of choice after Sam Adams. He allowed her to pay him back for the beer. She’d supply the flanker for smoking the dope. It was Grace’s, but she wouldn’t care.“Does your flanker use propane?” he. I stopped eating, stopped doing really anything until my daughter came back from her grandparents house one evening. She went to visit them in the summer; my wife died while she was gone. My parents already explained how "Mommy drank too much apple juice one night, and she went into the wrong side of the road, and was hit by a big truck. But she is with the angels now," they told her. "She was in a happier place." And she beilieved it. Economy was rough, society was brutal; I could hardly take.