******************** I had considered not attending his most recent Christmas party, because I could not stop wondering what he was hiding on his thir... floor, but decided to go because, after all, who could refuse an invitation to the Blanche Christmas party? I recall it vividly: he had hired the best Jazz band so far, and I was on the second floor balcony, watching them from my favorite vantage point, when I heard muffled, but loud, screaming. I could tell it came from upstairs, so hastily I. Be everywhere."The commercial for the new Hideki invention flashed on a nearby screen. It began with a woman looking at flight tickets from New York to Berlin, seeing she missed her flight. The commercial cut to a second woman who placed a mask on her face, which for a moment remained a glossy black before the first woman's face appeared on it. The commercial flashed to a boardroom, where the masked woman in a business suit gave a presentation to a variety of executives.For a company on the. The shredded sheen of her stockings betrayed a harrowing night of tested limits. Reflections of halogen spotlights slithered over the perfect gloss of her blood-red coat like sparks in a flame. Alex wondered how much longer her flame could burn so brightly.This brave, amazing woman had faced numerous trials in the past hours, somehow emerging stronger each time, but now it seemed as if the simple act of waiting would unravel her.She looked at the elevators, then out at the street, then back to. ..all kinds of fuck stuff that, some time ago maybe that would seem fucking deviant or fucking sick to me, but I get so deep in my fuck madness, that I fucking care less day by fucking day, I even start to become fucking addicted to it and I just fucking look for more and more fuck. Man, if I got fucking paid for all the crazy fucking stuff I did in my life...I`d be a fucking billionaire by now :).No matter how much fuck I get, there is never fucking enough fuck for me, so I`m fucking paying.