Is It Better To Outmonster The Monsters

He Was Twenty. I Remembered Twenty. I'd Known Everything At Twenty. It Took Me Another Year To Realize I Knew Nothing. I Was Still Hoping To Learn Something Before I Hit Thirty, But I Wasn't Holding My Breath.

It Was Two Weeks Before Christmas. A Slow Time Of Year For Raising The Dead.

She Stared Up At Me, And There Was Something In Her Eyes, Something That Said We Finally Had An Understanding. She Was Afraid Of Me, And Sometimes That’s The Best You Can Do With People. I’d Tried Kindness. I’d Tried Friendship. I’d Tried Respect. But When All Else Fails, Fear Will Do The Job.

But If Anything Will Turn Me Off, It's A Very Practiced Approach, As If The Man Has Done It A Thousand Times Before, To A Lot Of Different Women. Which Always Seems To Imply That I Am No Different From All The Rest. Not Flattering.

I Feel That If You Are Blessed, Or Lucky Enough, To Be Doing Well, You Should Help Others.