"She's losing oil pressure." How bad?" Not serious yet but it's fluctuating."Curtis and Hatchet man wasted no time in checking her out as soon as I wa...sunhooked from the plow blade."How bad is it?" I asked."We can have a new Engine here for her in about three days." That bad?" I asked."Missy, it's up to you, we can get her a new engine or we can retire her." If we swap out the engine, we'll have to re run the wiring and everythingelse," advised Curtis. "She'd be like a brand new truck." I'll. She smelled of blood, hers and Samantha's. He stared at the border of light and darkness and raged.He would have vengeance on the priest.The van started up then roared out of the alley.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“You made a mistake fighting me on these grounds,” Jezebel hissed as her sword of darkness parried Aurora's crimson blade. The blades rang, a shiver racing down to Aurora's hand.“I am no longer held back by heaven's rules,” laughed Aurora. “How can this at all be a mistake? Today, I. And tried again.I mumbled through the chips, “I want to talk to you about sex.”“What do you want to know?” Funny, he understood me perfectly. I didn’t understand what I had said, but Chuck did.Chuck was immediately coated with chips and orange soda. Passing through the nostrils at high speed, those little bitty chip fragments hurt.And they are sharp. Chuck used half a roll of toilet paper controlling the bleeding.When we resumed our decorum, I was sitting cross legged on the bed. I had a pair. "I'll just have a drink first, thank you," I said, stepping through dark wooden double doors into the bar area. There weren't many men in the bar, just a lot of the girls sitting idly on chairs and stools, sipping drinks and smoking. I smiled as they each looked at me interestedly, and walked up to the circular bar in the center of the room. I squeezed onto a bar stool and nodded to the bartender. "What can I get you?" she asked. She was the only one in the room besides me, that was halfway.