One evening we went to a party in a local pub. After so many drinks I could not remember most of the night there; the day after, while nursing a massi...e hangover, Anita commented that a black man had come up to her while I was talking to someone else and said to her she was the sluttiest looking girl in the pub and he would not mind taking her out and fuck her. Ana just laughed it off, telling him she was a married woman and her husband was there around; later the man left the pub with his. Her hands rubbed the surface as though she was caressing a lover.Talking about the past today had awakened many memories, some joyous, some painful. Would her future be filled with as much pain and anguish as her past? She leaned forward and rested her torso on the green blotter. She laid her glasses on the polished wood, used her folded arms as a pillow, and let the memories and dreams flow until sleep took her again.Sarita is also restless. It had taken her a long time to fall asleep. She had. Jack continued, “After a week of investigation, we decided that these missing people had headed into the green spaces. We followed after them with orders of shoot to kill. The fear was that they would report just how much space there was outside of the city and it would cause a mass exodus.“We found the remains of an old highway and followed it. We were on special bicycles developed especially for rough terrain. As a result, we made pretty good progress. It took us almost a week to find them.. Revenge was a strong word, but Dan had just lost his job with next to nochance of getting another teaching job in this country. His prospects nowwere the dole queue and trying to get a low paid job in a supermarket."That bitch ruined my career, yes I suppose I'd like to give her somepayback. In four weeks' time she'll be enjoying herself with her littlefriends at the end of year prom and I'll be sat on my own in a dingy roompraying that I get a job so that I don't get evicted from my sad.