All it takes is a flash of color, a particular smell, a brightclear cool day like so many other spent in particular company. Thewalls come down and t...e world spins away from under you leaving youstranded in space, hovering in an airless void in which you suffocate.Or at least you feel you might. And if there was any justice in theworld, at times, that would be a merciful end. After April, Ben had been discharged from the hospital after spendingmore than eight months all together confined. . blam!" Y'reckon?" Possible!" Then maybe she stitched up Mal, huh? Made it seem like someone else? She wasn't as wasted as she appeared. Someone texted the address and called home. Had to've been Anna, and she must've known what she was doing." Flipped into her catatonia afterwards? She's good at the drama." Sure is. She had the cops believing she was off her face." So maybe Mal had her bailed and she jabbed him? How'd she do that without leaving a trace of blood on her clothing? How'd she. I heard the keys to the jail and my heart jumped knowing paul had come to get me but when the officer came in and asked me to strip down i refused to do such a thing he told me once more but with more authority this time again i refused the the officer walked up to me and ripped the top of my shirt and told me i would strip one way or the other i was so scared that i agreed to strip off my clothes and did just that but when he tried to bend me over for a cavity search i had had enough and told. The hole nowslowly closing up but still open enough that the bar of soap slideinside as pig passed over.Pig dried its body and looked at itself in the mirror. Nothing butsmooth skin now. It squatted over the handheld mirror, its crackslick and shiny its balls hanging from the warm shower. Its holeno longer a tight pinkish pucker. The lips darker and slightlyrippled. The skin now looking somewhat abused, aged, exoticalmost. The hole no longer a tiny round opening. More longer than wide. .