Phone ringing. I put the gold case back on the end table and I lay down on the bed. Phone ringing. Thinking back to Earth. Phone ringing. ‘Hello?’...a woman answers. ‘It’s for you, it’s James.’ I take the phone from her, ‘Hey, James, what do you need?’ ‘We need to talk,’ James says, ‘Could you get here right now.’ ‘Ok, be right there,’ I hang up the phone and go to the closest to get my bag. ‘I got to go, there’s something wrong at the lab’ ‘I know,’ she says. ‘I’ll be back tomorrow,’ I kiss her. Kelly had short blonde hair and bright green eyes and her baggy white shirt and short black skirt hang down on her little frame, she sat down excitedly as I passed the smoke.She took a deep hit and I could see the tension rise from her body and she exhaled and sat back in the chair, I was so glad it hit her the way it did and that she feels so much looser now.As her head went back on the chair and her eyes closed while she savoured the feelings running through her head I looked down as her. .. violent ends all.Later, as he grew ... and the dead grew with him ... others found their way in. Sometimes the others were handy ... he needed a frenchman, a Devils Island Convict, for a play ... one showed up.He needed an inconvenient Siberian internment camp guard, an ignorant fool, the Russian had the proper qualifications ... and an interesting accent.A high school play demanded a villain ... the one pulled from the many was so villainous the second appearance on stage he was soundly. Sensei Jim closed the dojo from Christmas Eve until the 2nd of January. I love karate, but it is nice to have some time off.”“I hear you’re planning a trip to Sweden and Russia.”“I’m working on it.”“But it will be just you and Jesse?”“Yes. Jess will be six months pregnant by then, and, also, the girls think we each need some time to ourselves.”“Having Jesse along isn’t exactly time to yourself!” Bethany countered.“True, but each of us agreed to do something without the other two once a year..