I thought this dinner was for us! I went to a lot of trouble to get this outfit for tonight, and you don’t even care!!!” You look away, tears well...ing in your eyes, and there he is again. You watch as he walks across the room and enters the door to the rest rooms.“I’m sorry babe; I promise I’ll make it up to you”.“You sure will!” you say. “But right now I need some time to clean up and get myself together. You go get rich and blow your client, I’ll come back later. Order something nice and. But, that aside, I’m going to begin on my pamphlet next week. And I’m going to read some fiction.”“More Grey and Upfield?”“No. I thought Malouf’s Ransom. It’s a reimagining of the Iliad that follows the relationship between two grieving men at war: Achilles and Priam. It came out years ago, but I’ve not read it.”“I’ve read some of his poetry.”“I bought Ransom when I was in the CBD a week or ten days ago.”“Just frittering away our resources!”“Absolutely! Think of what my paperbacks run compared. Then another paid me $20 to just lick the pre-cum out of his dick. And he had quite a lot. He was really ready for it since his underwear was sticky with pre-cum and he still oozed a lot.But something was happening. I noticed that the one guy who was not gay was doing his best, it seemed, to win every hand. He clearly had the most money an hour later. He also didn't ask me to do anything the others were. He was really concentrating.Sure enough, he was the final winner. He had over $300. The large grey concrete residence hall loomed before her, reminding her of the Soviet-style architecture she had seen in her history textbook. Well, not that this box of a building could be classified as ‘architecture’. She mentally groaned as she saw the large line-up at the reception desk as she walked through the front doors. As she took a number and in a chair, she thought back to the last time she had been with her boyfriend. Tom was a 19 year-old local farmhand whom had taught Jenn.