Stitching

KACELA

To my relief, I was able to find a copy of the file that was too big for me to put on my drive.  I quickly downloaded it from the cloud to my hard drive and then I pulled all of the files from the jump drive.  I sat back, sighing in relief.

“Can we please take care of this now?” Earl asked in exasperation. 

I nodded, examining it.  “Yeah.”  I probed at it with my finger.  “I’m going to have to pull out the bullet.  It’s still in there.”

Earl looked distasted.  “I figured.  I’ve got some basics.  I’ll pull it out.”

I was relieved.  “That would be good,” I said.  “It’s hard to do this stuff on yourself.”

Earl nodded.  “I know,” he said, shortly.  I looked at him with interest.  There was a story there.

I leaned sideway, lifting up my sweater.&n