The host usually supplied snacks.The only difference this time was the chili that Benny Sisk insisted each of us had to try. It was his wife’s favor...ite recipe. Unfortunately after about an hour we were all quite a bit gassy and the bathroom was getting a good work out. Rather than wait for an opening, I ducked into Parker’s bedroom and used the master bath. I finished off the toilet paper and opened the vanity to get a replacement roll. That was when everything went to crap. Prominently. ““Aren’t you hungry?” asked Jessie.Natalia stopped and smiled as she teased, “I am but you look so hot, like a real model.”“Nat,” Jessie growled, “feed me or I’ll get one myself.”“Oh,” Natalia purred as she raised her eyebrows, “What do you want to have first? Wine, water or a sushi roll?”Jessie unconsciously licked her lips as she thought about her friend’s proposition. “I like to have water, wine and a spider roll. In that specific order please.”Natalia had already unscrewed the cap of the. Bill Donnelly was an Army veteran of the Korean War. Like me he had been wounded. Unlike me he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. Combat affects men differently. Some enjoy it. Some are permanently scarred psychologically, even if they are not hurt physically.In my case, I simply did not want to do it again. Also, I no longer enjoyed watching war movies. Finally, I did not want to have anything more to do with guns. It may have made sense for me to buy a twelve gauge pump action shot. That evening on finding that Tyler had been robbed of his new jackethis father took his belt to his son and whipped him with it as he haddone many, many times over the years, Tyler said nothing as hisfather took out his rage on his bare back.After his lashing Tyler said nothing and went up to his room lockingthe door behind himself then went over to the corner of his roomwhere he lifted the carpet up revealing a loose floorboard, Tylerremoved the board and reached into the hole the missing.