Winter’s tail had hung on with a tenacious grip all through April, and only finally surrendered to spring two weeks into May. Under normal circumsta...ces, the odd weather would have gotten quite a bit of play in the news. It was barely a blip on the radar with a pandemic and a worldwide lock-down taking up every second.Stephanie had been awake for about a half hour, and much like winter, had only surrendered to the day when she couldn’t force herself back to sleep. She peeled back the covers. Chains burst out from around him and grabbed him as the lava seared his skin off and rendered his muscles from his bones. Jack never lost consciousness though, and soon realized he was in hell as he screamed for mercy. After about an hour of being burned alive, a female demon came down to check on Jack and explain the rules of hell. "Well, Jack. I see you're down here you sexist pig. Fucking your mom? Wow, that was unimaginative. Couldn't accept girls just think you're ugly as fuck, so you came. "After letting the rifle cool off for a few moments he picked it up loaded in another magazine and proceeded to shoot the rifle some more. Halfway through the magazine the scope mount fell off the rifle and hit the ground with a slight thump.Patrick picked it up and he saw that the scope mount, scope rings and the scope itself where damaged. So he unloaded his rifle, slung it over his shoulder, and walked to the armory.H cleared his throat and said to the base armorer sergeant Dave Daniels. Strangely, he thought, and for reasons Chris didn'tunderstand, between trips to the mall, dates, and phone calls with herfriends she still took an interest in her little brother.Staci finally saw his reflection in the mirror. "What took you so long?" I was just reading." he lied.He had been watching a soap opera. In the course of the long summer hehad started watching one soap opera because he was a little smitten withone of the actresses and it had turned into, much to his secretembarrassment,.