The heavy rain and winds downed power lines in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan, leaving all of Namasia District without electricity Friday morning, but the power was restored in phases before noon.

I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.

I reached into my hand bag for the court papers and held them towards him, he took them from my hand and looked at them with contempt and handed back to me and said, The devil is a liar, this divorce proceeding shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.

His feet rested out of the water.