But as your training officer, I say call the guy from Free Bird. If we don’t, we are likely to be in a world of shit. That radio person he is talkin... to on the phone has him on tape I’m sure. She also has him live on the local show.”“Hello,” I said into the phone. “No I was doing some research for one of the cons.”“Well Mr Allen, one of your cons has a family hostage and is threatening to shoot them all. He wants to use you to negotiate,” the female voice said.“So where are you, and can you. He pointed to the bathroom and said I could undress in there. I followed his suggestion like an automaton. I went into the bath and quietly slipped out of my dress, bra and panties. I watched myself in the mirror as I undressed. I hoped Bill would like what he saw. He had me lay face down on the bed. I undid the robe but kept it covering my back and hips. He brushed back my hair and carefully slid the robe down to just over the crack of my ass. I was practically totally exposed to a man. ..let me suck you, Searle. Let me bite your scrotum like the last time--" ? WHACK! Right across the stomach. A tear rolled down Dawnie's cheek, but she said nothing. ? "C'mon, don't you have something to brag about, you fat piece of shit...haven't you ruined some poor woman's chance of ever getting a security clearance by busting her for pot or something?" ? I swatted her across the shoulder with my hazel switch, and grinned. ? Dawnie rolled her eyes, but was up to the challenge, and she is. He left the flowers on the grave and started to walk away when the robin started to chirp. He looked at the bird and saw the rhythmic nodding of its head, as if the bird was telling him it was all right to have a life beyond the anger he felt. The house felt empty now that Michelle and Beth were gone, only the ghosts of them, still vivid in his memory, remained. The silence of the house was like a hammer against his psyche as he sat and looked at the picture of his wife and daughter on the.