The guy kept following me, I'd been walking

The guy kept following me, I'd been walking for over 10 minutes and noticed the same guy behind me. As soon as people weren't around he walked faster and got closer to me.

I sped up, starting to look over my shoulder more and more frequently. But he kept on gaining and gaining. So I threw caution to the wind, and started sprinting.

"Good afternoon sir, do you have a minute for the whales?" I dug my fingernails into my palm to calm myself. I MUST NOT SHOW FEAR. "I'm sorry- I'm running a touch late and..."

"I can't talk right now...." "but please sir I will give you a ride"

Taiwan on a rainy night is like a lantern show of colors, occasionally blurring when the rickshaw driver's feet slid on the mossy street. I don't know where I was being taken, but

from the tattoo on the rickshaw driver's neck there would be Tong at the destination. I berated myself for leaving my gat back at the Casbah. General Custer didn't need it buy I mi

Lled my own flour and looked up how to roast a roe or deer. Knowing the great heroes of antiquity chiefly lived off broth, I made a huge batch and froze it in quarts. Living like

Achilles, Aeneas, Beowolf, or Batman (the original series) I drank the broth, but once I let it steep warmly & a population of sea monkeys bloomed.When I quaffed the broth I became

bright, salmon pink. My toes curled upward. When the kitchen timer dinged, the sea monkeys smiled. I was done.