She could tell he was still seeing spots.“What was that thing?” he finally asked.“Oh, just some jewelry somebody gave me,” she answered flippa...tly.“You must throw it out the window, now!” he demanded.She lied outrageously. She felt like the diamond was her one last hope although she had no idea why.“Rex,” she said. “The diamond is keyed to my body. If I take it off it will explode and kill us both. I can’t, see?”He looked suspicious and petulant. He came closer to her to examine it, but when he. I thought I quit the army but they are a fool’s circus and I won’t kill civilians.’ He looked so inspired. He said he wanted to do this rock and not indie. He made me listen to dead weather and I had my first major lesbian crush. The band was rock and blues and grunge. It was like a flashback to the doors and Janis Joplin but with this new asexual flair that reminded me of david bowie. He was trying to get in my pants and the concert so damn near worked.When mosshart and jack white shared a mic. She was hungry and scared, but what really terrified her was what might happen to her daughter.‘I don’t care what I have to do,' she swore to whatever fates that might have cared, 'I'm not taking my baby out onto this street!'By the time she reached the bright lights of the intersection, her fear of what she was about to do was buried under the sickening terror of what would happen if she did not. Mallory looked at the street sign and repressed a shudder at the infamous name it carried.Holt. Miriam put the lamp back on the table and sat back downon the edge of her bed. She watched the eroticinterracial coupling of her friend with the blackwaiter. Julie saw Miriam watching and just smiled ather as she continued her energetic lovemaking.Miriam fitfully went back to sleep but she had visionsof black men between her own loins. Was it the intenseheat of the jungle that made her dream these things?*******The next day, Miriam was already dressed as she leftfor breakfast. Julie was still.