VEDA

I 'd never made an ass of myself in a club this nice before, but that's exactly what I planned to do tonight. If I was about to leave this world, I

was going out with a bang. And this was the perfect dress to do it in.

The place had three levels. On the main level, where we were, women wearing scraps of material just barely wide enough to keep them legal hung upside down from ropes high above the heads of the crowd on the dance floor, shifting to new poses along with the music before twirling to "oohs" and "ahhs" from the crowd below. A man...