1989 Middle School Dance before High School. Capshaw County a farmers dream this place was. Fields for days and the land prime ripeness. Fifteen-year-old kids had nothing better to do than raise hell at barn dances, roundups and cattle shows. Oscar Theroux was no different. Country boy at heart, he could wrangle any steer and could ride like a pro.

The Middle school dance would be the beginning of the rest of his life he reckoned. He took his crush Sarah Joy by his side and the lord was a watching! They and their friends did the typical shenanigans stole the school mascot, raided the principles office and then pretended they were adult and drank tequila by the creek. Well by the nights eleventh hour, Oscar's friend Elroy took him and Scooter aside and introduced them to mushrooms. By dawn they were tripped out and ready to make a snake hide with their visions.

Eventually the boys got home, and Sarah Joy broke up with Oscar that very morning, as he'd scared her the night before.

"You weren't you, Oscar! I didn't like who I seen; I swear it was the devil. Come on SJ you're being a little Country D (Country Dramatic) No, I didn't like it and I don't want to be around you if you continue to go with those two."

Well, that was the end of that, Oscar chose his friends. By the twelfth grade Oscar was smoking cigarettes, marijuana, and did hallucinogens at the weekend barn burners. He was quite the character. Everyone laughed with him, and he made the smiles on everyone's faces brighter. Life of the party most would say.

Soon Oscar would become a prized winning Rodeo Star and travelled all around Connors Island. He had a whole wall in his apartment dedicated to the awards he had won, and still to this day.

At Age twenty-five Oscar was thrown dangerously far from a bull during a competition. The boy had never been thrust like this before. Rushed to emergency and had his spleen removed and his back broken with multiple fractures. He had no partner as he was quite promiscuous, and his Ma and Pa had died a few years back. Elroy went to prison in 91 and Scooter well he dove deep into the drug scene and hasn't been around much.

Alone he sat in the hospital for months, until one day he reached out to the only other person who ever cared for him, Sarah Joy. She came to his aid right away; she also brought her husband Bill with her. The couple helped Oscar win back his love for life. Friends you could say. Eventually Oscar was well enough to re-join the Rodeo Circuit or be part of Bill's church. Bill was a Pastor in a town Called Audrey. Oscar chose to do both. Part time with Bill and Sarah Joy and tour with the rodeo but no riding.

By age thirty Oscar was setting roots for himself. He landed a nice gal by the name of Loretta, and they planned to wed in the fall. Sarah Joy had a baby girl and her life seemed to be going swell. Things were just good! Oscar hurts his back one day on tour and instead of telling anyone he chose to take muscle relaxants. Not thinking much of it, he simply didn't want everyone to fuss. So he hid his aches from them and carried on. This continued for about six months, and on the night of his wedding he danced with his beautiful bride like he was Fred Astaire! The couple were simply gorgeous About 5'8 he had cowboy hair sandy blond, she was a beautiful dark-skinned lady from the south. A match made in heaven.

After that dance Oscar went to hide from everyone as his pain had gotten severe and he couldn't escape the agony. A friend of the family and eventual coach of Bill and Sarah Joy's daughter Dr. Keith approached him. "Hey man what's wrong? Alex, I've been hiding my back injury from Loretta and the clan for close to a year. I think its gotten worse and I don't want to be the failure I once was in SJ's eyes. I have to be a part of the Rodeo and part of this church, I cannot be alone again. I hurt! Well ok, here try some of these and come see me Monday? Ok, thanks man!"

What Dr. Keith gave Oscar were Oxycontin, it immediately cured his pain and he loved it! This was his new Mushroom, this shit worked like a charm. A regular prescription and he continued on in the rodeo to no one's alarm. Until it became a daily thing where he couldn't escape the need for more and his world revolved around that feeling. A feeling that can only be described as that itchy toe, and when you itch it you love the feeling of relief SO you continue and the euphoria behind said experience is breathtaking-literally.

Drinking became a thing again, and the missing in action Oscar was once again around. Loretta left him and they hid this from Sarah Joy and Bill. The church finally caught wind of his depression and staggering ways, and he was asked to leave.

Just after Thanksgiving that following year, Oscar was on a terror. High as the sky and drunk to boot he headed to Sarah Joy.

"Its you this time Oscar. It sure is girl, and I am sorry I shouldn't have ever fucked up our lives years ago! You didn't Oscar, you saved me. What you mean? I didn't want to be around this devil in you and yet you found me again. Slowly dragged me behind the tractor until your demons came to flourish again. It's the real you. SJ I don't understand I am here for you and I'm hurting. That's the thing Oscar, you'll always hurt as you continue to numb away. I don't like you." Sarah Joy shuts her screen door, leaving Oscar in the cold. Half way down the roadside, he stumbles upon Bill. Bill actually followed him from the house secretly. Out of sight from the house, Bill begins to lecture a very intoxicated Oscar. "You lie and you curse. The drink and the drug over power you. Sarah Joy warned me about the real you, and then I saw him. Then I saw the lust in his eyes for my wife as well. There you are looking for her to save you again and I am the Pastor, I am the mighty and you poor man are doomed for eternal purgatory in this state! Leave me be Bill, I don't wanna Sermon. You're not going to get one loser, but it is lights out! "

That night Oscar near froze to death as Old Man Winter rocked Audrey Lane. Bill had taken a shovel and knocked Oscar out cold in the field and left him for dead!

Today Oscar sits in #67 at the Thomas Craig. Each day similar to the next. At the top nearly of the Complex he has a whole corner side kitchen with glass sink to ceiling. Trees occupy the view as he is sky-high ( go figure) Three Blue Velvet Sitting chairs sit facing the trees. No power on, no noise but the whipping leaves from the dancing trees. "Always Rain" Oscar says this every time he awakes in one of those chairs. Food is scrambled on the marble floor. Take out containers and microwaved dinners all around. Also though syringes, and drug paraphernalia scatter the site. His occasional visit from the drug dealer or begging Dr. Keith for heroin keeps his days mute. Oscar has stubs and stick like fingers after they were removed due to frost bite. His vision is obscured due to damage done that night of freezing. Still though he can manage a rig and light cigarettes with the stove.

As he sits in the dark after his fix. An Envelope causes a stir as it drops from the exhaust fan, carried by a breeze to his feet. Someone cared, he thought.