A rare smile spread across her face at the memory as it was to be the beginning of a long and painful journey back towards sobriety. Natalie's mood da...rkened, and she reached for a pack of open cigarettes and slid one between her teeth and lit it. Taking a deep drag, she exhaled a plume of smoke and watched the tendrils dance in the dim light of her apartment.'Just like this smoke', she thought, 'it was all just like this smoke.'She stood up and sat down again as her head began to pound. The will of God perhaps, for him to have incestuous sex with his beautiful mother and sexy sister, Jesus had given him the sign through Father Thomas’ perverse hypnotic behavior that he needed for him to remove the guilt that he felt over wanting to have sex with his mother and sister. ‘Praise God. Thank you Jesus for giving me these signs. I can now clearly see what I must do,’ he said whispering to himself while walking around the interior of the church while looking at all of the statues,. The peso continued to plummet, reaching 500,000 to the embattled dollar the day before Jorge and his compadres would decide to act. The hyper inflation priced basic foodstuffs out of the reach of many of the poor, leading to a massive increase in hunger in the barrios.The lower classes, facing the prospects of slow starvation because they were unable to afford the skyrocketing costs of food, felt that they were carrying the burden of repaying the foreign bankers while the rich continued to. Even the homeless people who hide in the landscaping near the freeway onramp, those who dig through dumpsters and trash cans for empty soda and beer cans and bottles, even those who hadn’t had a bath or a shower in months told him he wasn’t wanted in their camp.. It wasn’t because of his ghastly appearance but for the smell he emitted. No one calls him Don anymore. He is known as Sulfur. * * * * * Ms. Penelope Collins sat behind her desk for the first time that day and slipped off her black.