We waited till dad and Vicki's husband went out of town, made reservations at a hotel in another towm and away we went. Mom drove the Lincoln out to a...well known dogging spot and dropped me off. They drove ahead aways and parked. I was there for protection and to observe, it was still day light. Me and another guy walked up to the women. Mom removed her dress and stood there naked, Vicki did the same. A couple of other guys walked up. Mom took the first guy and laid on the front seat spreading. This was not the first time she had been late, actually, her being late was more of the norm. She was trying, but the ends never seemed to meet. She had school, her job at the diner, then she would clean a couple of her instructor’s offices, along with any other odd job she could pick up for extra money. All that and trying to study and make it to class left her with little time for sleep. Even a 19 year old college student needs sleep. When the class dismissed, her instructor Dr. Cole, asked. Or, nolle prosequi if you prefer Greek. In the past four years, it’s been nose-to-grinding-wheel for yrs. truly. Consequently, I am probably due for another well-deserved promotion. Overdue, almost certainly because the agency’s owners, my mother and Auntie Pru, don’t want to be accused of napa ... nepo ... something-ism, you know the word.My first major career move launched me from the mailroom to the number three exec in Digital Filing. Then, over the years, after a couple of people left and. The smell of night, that after-a-rain clean musk of soil and breezes carryingsap on the wind. The sound of it; that first swell of frustration and struggle,the dead in the middle of the night, the quickening of the early morning. Thecruel power I feel growing in me as the sky dies from blue to black. The stirringin my abdomen, the heat in my chest, the hunger speaking to me from my loins,the blood surging through my body ? they tell me that now, now is the timeto fulfill what I am. A sadist. I.