LUMPY GRAVY? Really... I has been raining all night. A black car is driving through the dump woods. The wind is blowing and it is chilly outside. We can hear the rain. We cannot hear the car. There are two people in the car. One of them is dead. He is 19 years old. We can see what is left of his eyes. It is as if some strange, soft instrument struck them, causing the eyelids to become translucent and gray and swollen. We can barely see the pupils beneath. His name is Bernie and he is used to work on farm. It is very late. The silent black car find its way through a maze of hastily planned streets in a tract of new homes. The *Cinderella Gingerbread Wonderland Estates* are all empty. The little plywood carlicues on the eaves of each dream castle are splitting and peeling. The stingily spaced nails that hold them on are bleeding rust. The windows are mostly broken. The tract is held together by chicken wire and cheesy strands of cotton strings and screamin...