‘Hello, Elaine,’ He said. ‘How are you?’ ‘OK, thank you, Malcolm,’ I replied, ‘but you didn’t come here just to say ‘Hello’, did y...ou?’ ‘No…’ ‘I’m still thinking about it.’ ‘What could I do to convince you that I’m serious about you?’ Malcolm asked. That’s when I had this brilliant or stupid, depends on your point of view, idea. I would set him a challenge. Now. ‘You could go down on me. Here and now.’ ‘Here?’ ‘Yes. Here. Now. You could slide under my desk, hide under my skirt and…’ ‘I’ll do. ??All of you will stay home from school Friday,? my mother said. ?Thatway Bobbie can make sure things are together,? she looked at my brotherand sister ?Then I don?t have to get you two out of school early,because we will be leaving around noon and meeting your father at thehotel.??Mom,? Kim said, ?is Jake going to cook for Bobbie???No,? my mother said, ?I?ll have food made for them. Sandwiches andthings Jake can warm up.?I tried to show my mother that I?m being a good sissy I said, ?Mother,. It is how she had heard the story. The woman looked again at the man. Her face displayed her resolve, and she moved away. Taking his flesh to her mouth, she raised him. If a messenger of heaven had appeared, his face might have grown more full of life. His hope soared as the woman brought forth in him the body’s desire. He could feel her tongue awkwardly seek his root. Her lips, trembling from anxiety, coated his shaft with hot spittle. Her mouth slicked its length of foreskin and peeled it. TWA Flight 800 had gone down in a fiery explosion.“Streaks of light rising up to meet the plane?” Tom asked, shaking his head. “Missile?”“It sure as hell sounds like it,” I replied. “And not just one witness, but three, from different places.”“It would have to be from a boat, I think, given where they say it happened.”I nodded, “I think so. We’d have to ask one of our Navy friends about it.”“Terrorists?” Kara asked.“What else could it be?” I asked. “I can’t imagine one of our Navy ships.