The door banged open and a smelly man with a brown beard stepped inside, axe at the ready. Annie waited. Believing there was nobody inside, the man ...owered his weapon and turned to leave.Annie dropped from the rafters, but her foot caught on a beam and she toppled down head-first. Desperately, she reached out and wrapped her arms around the invader's neck to break her fall. Yelling in pain as her knife slashed his arm, the man dropped his axe and tried to shake her off. Knife forgotten,. I packed everything, bought a pay-as-you-go cell phone and added some minutes as a roadside fall-back, gassed up the van and headed south to Des Moines Iowa where I could pick up 80 west.I met the boat's owner, and goddamned if we didn't click. He was moving to Taiwan because of his business and had to get rid of his larger assets pronto. He had a notarized, current assessment done of the boat which made our negotiations a lot less prickly. We cut a deal where he would get the dinette pulled. Do you agree?” President Pusin asked his partner.Maya started crying, “Our son was learning to walk, and he lost his balance and fell, hitting his head against the wall.” Maya looked at Jenny and Willa, “Okay.” She whispered. Skut had a dazed look on his face. He did not change his expression for new things. He was alive, but he was not there in his body.“Let’s go and sit down,” Jenny suggested. They moved into the apartment and had Maya sit in the center of the couch holding her son. Tears. " She turned towards him and took a deep breath. "There'scheerleader practice after school today and I'm gonna miss the late bus.Mom has to leave for work before it's over at five so could you pick me upat school?" She looked at him expectantly.Sam hesitated. "Well," he said slowly, "I do have a meeting scheduled for4 o'clock today, and I don't know if it would be over in time for meto..." "Oh please," she interrupted, "I already told Amy she could have aride too -- pleeeease?" She looked at.