Marcia cursed as Janisdropped her knee into Marcia's stomach. "Damn girl, do I really have tohurt you?" Marcia strained to catch her breath as the ...ind flew out ofher under the force of Janis's knee. Marcia started to cry more out ofhumiliation than of injury. Janis sat on the bench watching Marcia'smascara run down her cheeks."Did your guy ever cut you a break like I just did or did he smack you awhole lot when you stepped out line?"Marcia smiled through her tears. "No. You cut me a. The ad she had placed online only saidthat her husband had lost a bet with her and anyone who wanted toparticipate in his humiliating ordeal could see him at the address werehis car was currently sitting. She asked that everyone please takephotos and email them to her. She planned to post them on her husband'ssocial networking page later. He wouldn't even know about it until hewent to check it later. He thought he was embarrassed now.She watched as her husband got out of his vehicle as. The sun was turning the sky many shades of red, orange, and purple on the horizon. Jace parked the bike by a water tower at the top of the hill. They climbed off the bike and Jace grabbed a blanket from the saddlebag on the bike. Jace smiled at her and took her hand. He led her down a path that ended in a small clearing on top of a crest. The horizon was in clear view of this spot, but unless you walked right up on it, you would never see them. “Oh my god, this is beautiful Jace” Lisa. His body glistened with beads and rivulets of sweat in the hot moist air of the confined space. He inhaled the clouds of steam; his chest expanded and contracted slowly, deeply, in a steady rhythm of long breaths taken hungrily through his flared nostrils. Vision followed upon vision like footsteps taken along a winding trail of time, tracing the decades of a life lived before his own, entwined in continuity with his own life. His awareness, his spirit, expanded as a bud unfolds and grows under.