The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.

You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.

The cannula had come askew in his nose and he pushed it straight, his hand moving slowly, like the hand of a man who is dreaming with his eyes open.

This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ.