Halcyon Days

I am continuing a story I began a few weeks ago (this is part thirty five). _{_{You can find parts one and two and three and four and five and six and seven and eight and nine and ten and eleven and twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen and sixteen and Seventeen and eighteen and nineteen and twenty and twentyone and twenty two and twenty three and twenty four and twenty five and twenty six and twenty seven and twenty eight and twenty nine and thirty and thirty one and thirty two and thirty three and thirty four and thirty five and thirty six if you are interested}}

You can also see and hear me read the first 7 parts here: https://steemit.com/dtube/@felt.buzz/i0p0jyj7

and the second 7 parts (8-14) here:

https://steemit.com/dtube/@felt.buzz/vm23ot2g

and parts 15-21 here:

https://steemit.com/dtube/@felt.buzz/uxs6zbkl

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Dark Night must have spent five minutes, carefully examining the small box. I said nothing, just lay on my back watching her, and the gun - my gun - that was pointed in my face. Eventually, she sighed and dropped the box into her pocket and sat down on my sofa. She picked up the glass of wine and took a sip.

"Can I get up yet?" I asked, from the floor. "I've had a long day and this floor is not as comfortable as it looks."

She nodded and placed the gun on the table in front of her. I picked myself up and sat down on the chair opposite her. She poured another glass of wine and passed it to me.

"There are things you need to know about yourself. You don't seem to be as curious as I expected. You haven't even attempted to get into that box."

I took a sip of wine. I remembered the halcyon days when strange women didn't break into my apartment assault me and point my own gun in my face. I remembered when I wasn't being hired by strange men to sneak into another dimension to kill people with names like Slug, when I wasn't being followed by the Government.

They were boring times.

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As usual, I started with the freewrite prompt and used themostdangerouswritingapp.com to write the first five minutes (and then popped it into google docs to check for errors and tidy it up a bit):

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