such lovely blue eyes, 'I actually propose that we leave.' One person awake in this room, with a pistol, just in case, one person on watch, the other two can sleep. 'We're all tired,' I lied, 'We should each take shifts for sleeping. It was horrible that my efforts had led to nothing in this world-wide disaster. I had lobbied along with a few other representatives for the Mosque to be built, when so many others had been pushing for the opposite reason. I had several friends of the Islamic faith. In my college days I had been an advocate of helping relations with the Muslims on the campus. We know they are killing people out there for just that reason, and we can't let them do that to us.' 'I really don't want to say this, ladies, but we might have to shoot at someone.' The vivid reality came to their faces, then, 'There are people running around out there that will kill just for being white, let alone non-Muslim.

I was really only worried about the garage and the front door. Someone could jump the fence, yes, and break the window, yes, but it would take them a while to get passed the rest. If someone breaks through the back, its only a few steps around the corner, in we can fire on them.' I had fortified the backyard face of the house with enough wood scraps to make it look like a log cabin. 'Okay, new rule.' I said, 'We need a person on the stairs, watching the front door, with a gun. When we heard the gunshots, this changed. She had killed a man that day, and I couldn't forget that. And they weren't stupid either, these were college girls. I can't believe that I was lucky enough to get barricaded in a place with three very good-looking women my age. In the wake of terror, we told jokes and stories. They're such awesome creatures, these females. We kept quiet, fearing that we would be found. I used an old sheet to cover my window, so that the light wouldn't pour out. The girls and I were still alive by 11:20, in a circle on the other side of my bed, where we surrounded the radio and some candles. The 'Sickle of Islam' was rumored by the news to be everywhere, a sleeper organization that had been finally called to serve Allah. Certainly my densely packed neighborhood might be the target for some insurgents.

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