Shaking my head from side to side and frowning, I threw in a chip.“Aww! Chicken!”“Look, if you want me to play, that isn’t part of the house r...ules.”So Devin drew two cards to a straight and giggled as he pulled in the pot.Jamie wrinkled his nose and pulled off his belt and threw it in for the next hand’s ante. My mouth fell open as I stared at him. My son!I sighed and leaned back in the chair. “I’m not doing that!” “Mrs. T., keep your belt. Here’s what we’ll do. You don’t have to ante. But if. . he's in no position the run the place," said Seven. "Jack. We need to get these bodies out of here." She disassembled. Her constituent female parts started cleaning up. Setting up tables and benches and gathering up stew bowls, eating knives and the general wrack and ruin associated with a minor combat.Jack, Four and Six commenced removing the dead.Part of every medieval village is the midden. If it's dead, broken and worthless, the midden is where it goes.Centuries in the future, assuming. When I wore it I knew I had a visible panty line that drove boys and men crazy with lust for my butt.It worked every time I wore it in front of boys. And, once again here at Spencer’s they were enamored with me. This expelled Spencer from the boy equation.The shit hit the fan as I had been enjoying a meal in an outdoor café and happened to look out on the sidewalk. There was a girl in a tight denim pencil skirt. She moved over to a parking lot across from the café and sat in her hot car. The. ? It was deserted, as it usuallywas this time of night.? Our target wasprobably taking a shortcut on his way home.?A few people did that.? Somebecame targets. I pulled the backpack off his shoulders and peekedinside.? There were several textbooksinside, all with his name written on the cover ? ?Chris.?? Scientist of some sort, based on the booktitles. Chris? former life was now over.? His new life was beginning.? He wouldn?t really know it for a while,though.? A shame to waste all of.