She was walking right past the line of convicts, but she was looking in the opposite direction. Then her face turned towards us as she sought to catch... the same cooling breeze, but although she was looking towards me, she did not notice me. Instead, she was one of those looking straight through us. I had to risk it. Marie was as near to me as she was going to get-8 or 10 feet. I said ‘Marie’ as loud as I dared. She stopped, and glanced around. ‘Marie!’ I said more insistently. Finally, she. For that, I was thankful at least. If they knew, I would never have heard the end of it. Piano, ballroom dancing, cooking! I was enrolled in cooking classes! ‘Oh, dear heavenly father please just kill me now before she comes up with anything else,’ became my nightly prayer. Apparently God was having too big a laugh himself to be granting mercy right now. By August, I was almost welcoming the start of school … until Mom went there and talked to the principle. My freshman year I was the only guy. I was twenty five then and brother Austin fifteen. My late Mom was almost as keen a fisherman as me and one day it had dawned cloudy and cool she suggested we try the small stream that ran just below the house called Mill Creek. I let her use my old hip waders as the steam could be waded in places and wore rubber boots myself. The water was still fairly high as it can get low in late summer due to evaporation and careless irrigation which happened a lot back then when the water ran crystal. Oh shit, I don’t ever see him changing any at all for the better but to be honest with I have not thought about sex with another man. She ask do you thing that might be because of the type of men you have been around in this community. I told her that could be the case. She said you do know it is incest if you were to fuck your sister or your aunt. I thought for second then said there is a lot I don’t know about but I do know what incest is and I feel if it is not a case of one person.