"Ma'am? That is a bit formal for someone with whom you have spent days in the wilderness," she said."I meant no offense, ma'am, ah, Mista. I explored ...a nearby mound this afternoon that I was certain was a ruin, but it was stone through and through. Every likely site is the same way. From the air and from the ground, each site looks like an artificial construct created by an intelligence. Then I drill into it and the structure turns out to be natural sandstone." You have a real puzzle on your. How could this frighteningsituation be turning her on?“Damn,” Bob laughed, “lookit that! The bitch has see-through panties on!”“Don’t know why she bothers to wear ’em,” Mark laughed,“She couldn’t show off more if she was without ’em.”“You’re one lucky son-of-a-bitch Mark,” Tom laughedloudly, “having a dish of a slut mum like that!”“Yeah, guess I am,” Mark laughed in reply.. Johnny told his teacher he would stop when he needed glasses. I already wore thick glasses, was rather near sighted like my dad. I wondered if he did that too much. Maybe that’s why he took up smoking.Then I moved, still alive and peered out the front door window across the street at an angle to the old McCanta house, remembering. I’d stuck a child’s garden play set rake into Pat McCanta’s head when I couldn’t take his constant bantering anymore. His mother went berserk and I went home.Later, a. Wasn't that the same situation he had already been in, except now, it was magnified ten-thousand times?“You better have saved me some hot water,” Jason said.“I'm sure there's plenty,” Evan said and shook his head, spritzing Jason with water. “I'll be asleep when you get done jacking off to the memory of Billy Joe's succulent lips. Don't wake me.”“You sure you don't want the cot, asshole?”Evan shook his head and unrolled a sleeping bag on the floor. “Nope, I'll lay on this and use this sheet to.