A flock of seagulls were frozen in mid flight, seeming to hang in the air. Everyone around me stood perfectly still in the strange eerily quiet junkya...rd. I turned the dial back to where it had been and everything started again. I pushed one of the buttons expecting something spectacular to happen but it just played a little chime, it must have been the alarm and nothing more. Shrugging my shoulders I put the watch on and headed back to work.The next morning, I wore the watch to work. As had. ”She sat back down and fanned herself a little. “Even though I’ve lived here all my life, the south I mean, these damned tempi brutti…I still find the heat and the wetness hard to handle. So hard to relieve, you know?” I nodded, and she continued, “When I first married, I wore a sweet nightgown for my husband. It never stayed on long, thank the lord. Now I sleep nude without any covers, no, I never get covered anymore, thank the lord, so I can catch the breeze, and still I have no relief. So. Their west-southwest course took them across Las Vegas, one of the centers of Nbaru military presence (the catlike aliens considered pyramids to be symbols of government, so their initial landings were in Giza, Memphis and Las Vegas to surround and control the Great Pyramids, the Mud Island Pyramid and the Luxor Hotel and Casino) - now converted into a ground-to-orbit supply depot and munitions dump. The land around the City of Sin was devastated for miles around from the first real clash of. " I barely had time to murmur a hellobefore I was following her down the dark, wood panelled corridor, my eyesfixed on the swell of her perfect ass in satin. She stopped at a largepile of cardboard boxes and turned to face me. I quickly moved my eyesupward to meet hers, hoping she hadn't seen me staring. She smiled againand passed me the smallest of the boxes from the pile, one just largerthan my head."Take this one for now. The delivery men just dumped all these here,wouldn't put them where.