.. you know ... where they dump the junk that’s just backfill. Davis is looking at Roy. Roy bends down and picked up a rock ... brushed it off a lit...le and trots back. Davis sticks out a hand and Roy sticks a grooved hammer-stone in it. The thing was perfect ... no spalling or cracks. Probably weighed fifteen pounds. Davis looks at it and started in about how long it takes to make something like it. Careful chipping with a harder stone and polishing the groove.”“It took weeks,” he said.“Where. " I just try to do the best I can," I told her. "That, and since I didn't perform at all, I'll be easy to beat." All these years, I never gave a shit, never thought about other people. I thought everyone was like me, just wanting to have fun. Now I don't even have Sue Ellen." Janey grimaced. "She and Tony are going to get back together."I shrugged; what about Sue Ellen and Mindy? They'd been pretty tight at the party."I'm going to be here for a while, they have to do reconstructive surgery on. Once home again, she set out to clean my apartment. I'm fairly neat and more than fairly clean, but she wasn't satisfied. She even rewashed all my dishes and pans, and she washed the inside of fridge and the freezer. I heard her happily singing songs from her church as she cleaned. I took a shower before bed, and went into my room. Right before I did so, I said, “You have school tomorrow. You should hit the hey soon.”“ I know. I'm just going to take a shower.” I lay there listening to her. “Long time no see, huh?” * Facts state that frowning uses more muscles than smiling, and that day, Scott’s face received a full workout. The unexpected ride came with a rather unpleasant message:“Pay us eight-thousand dollars, or your wife sees our video.”His face remained double-palmed as they drove, and he muffled many utterances. Words that soaked into his palms like water puffing out a sponge. When he lowered them, his eyes were bloodshot and wet, ping-ponging back and forth between driver.