The sky was crystalline and the air smelled new and sweet. The trees were bursting with the growth of new leaves and everything looked green and fresh... a contrast to the dark and decaying neighborhood where I rented an apartment. I was a student at University, and I had just purchased on a whim a book of poetry titled, “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills”, by an author I’d never heard of named Bukowski. He’d go on to be a cult hero among disaffected college students and wanna be. You take good care of me" she said as she lied back.I went back in and got a mix of cookies and put them on a plate. I carried it back, nibbling on one and placed it on the coffee table near her. I sat on the loveseat across from her and curled my feet underneath me."So how are things at school?" mom asked."Well we are just getting back into it now. It was kind of slow the first few days after March break but the teachers are starting to pile on the homework again" I told her. "Everyone made a. I watched him sit on a bench outside the hospital, it was now 2 weeks before Christmas I had only 13 days to finish or the world would lose a rare treasure that it needed. The man's head was bent in thought when the same nurse that had been there when he awoke spied him as she was walking out the front doors."Hey!' she yelled across the parking lot, "What are you still doing here? No one came to get you? I thought that someone would have come for you after we put you picture out to the whole. Four balls.”“I won?”“Yeah ... Five hundred dollars. Hold on ... I’ll get your money.”“I don’t have to go to Helena?”“Payouts less than $600 can collect from any store that sells Monster Millions tickets.”“I didn’t know that.”The clerk counted out $500 into my hand. “One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred. There ya go ... Five hundred dollars.”“Can I get change?”“Sure. 20,40,60,80, 90, 95, and five ones.”We traded.“Where’s your betting slips?”“Gonna try.