Chapter 1

“Oh, look,” Carrie says, “another adult bookstore. What is that? The 5th one we’ve seen on this highway?”

“Yeah, at least,” I reply. “What is it about highways in rural Missouri? I guess truckers must be the horniest profession known to man.”

We watched the signs as we passed by the XXX Adult and Novelty Store. There were a couple of cars in the parking lot, but probably not more than the folks who worked there.

Carrie and I were on a drive back from her household’s reunion in some god and culture forsaken spot in southern Missouri. I was driving, and she was sitting in the passenger’s...