Mortal Danger But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. - Bret Easton Ellis COLTON A scream slices through the total silence. The night air is chilled out here on my balcony—brisk. My skin is slightly sweaty, despite the cold, and as I stand on the balcony of my downtown apartment, I lose myself to daydreams. Thoughts of business. Thoughts of pleasure. Thoughts of the time I combined both and how I almost made the same mistake today, taking too much interest into the woman down at the Tripping Out! Offices from earlier. The vision of her refuses to leave my head. Long legs and light brown hair fill my thoughts. The scent of honey and something else indescribably sweet swim in my nostrils still and se