"Why don't you make yourself comfortable on the couch and I'll bring in the coffee," Keiko said, seemingly ignoring the fact that Audrey had been star...ng at her long enough to be noticed."Sure," Audrey replied, suddenly aware what she'd been doing.Taking a second look around the living room while she waited, Audrey realized that she had been wrong in her initial assumption. It wasn't that the apartment was sparingly furnished, it was that it was full of gaps. As if a number of furnishings and. .. ?She smiled broadly, and said, "God, thanks. I was starting to suffocate." (This was the mid 90s, before no-smoking-anywhere laws began popping up.)We walked two blocks to the nearest beanery, and continued our previous conversations over cappuccini. I learned she was a CPA, a graduate of a blood-rival of my own alma mater, and very sensitive about her height. She had agreed to go with me for coffee, she said, because I had looked her in the eyes, and not in the chest.We both blushed a. The sight of two people making love a few feet away from me was way beyond my experience to that date. Sue was in her mid thirties with full breasts and a neatly trimmed bush. Tom was slightly older, tanned, fit and muscular. It was no surprise to me when I came first leaving my belly splattered with semen. After he was finished, Tom withdrew and lay next to her. Sue looked approvingly at my belly, dipped her finger in the come and smiled. “Would you like to?” Tom asked, spreading his. ..” I said.“And the Gaelic word for lamp is lóchrann,” she said, “so the Jack O’Lantern kidnapper was Jack O’Lochrin. I figured he was a cousin or weird uncle or something who only came out when he could be disguised, like at Halloween.”“But you didn’t know the kidnappings had been going on for two hundred years,” I said.She shrugged her shoulders indicating I was right. Then, after a long pause, she asked softly, “Did you kill them?”“I killed Jack,” I answered. “Without him, they shriveled.