Maude Larke lives in France with the ghost of her last cat.  Her credo is 'never wear two things of the same color when hiking'.  She has this bad habit of collecting things and getting antsy when people begin to touch the items in the collections.  Especially the pebble collection.  She thoroughly admits that she teaches as a day job out of sadism.

Really Down There (March 20, 2011. Issue 26. The SLAM & FLASH Issue!)

There are things I’ve done that make me feel real guilty.

When I was fourteen, I fucked my cousin. Just laid her down and laid her. And it hurt, ’cause I was the first. And I didn’t bother to try and make it hurt less. I just went at it. And boy did it feel good to me. I start gettin’ a hard-on whenever I think too long about it. Why was I born with a dick anyway? It’s never done any good. Not any time. Of all the times I’ve used it.

My baby bro, he never got the music lessons. I got ’em ’cause I was the oldest. I was the first. The folks couldn’t pay for mine and his and our sisters’ finishing school. I still feel rotten ’cause he didn’t have ’em. I feel so sad about what happened to my brother and sisters because of me. It sucks to be the oldest. I always feel so sorry about that.

And when I came out of my mama, I ripped her bad. She bled like a dam bursting. Damn, it’s enough to make you sorry you were even born. And I think every day about how bad I ripped her, and how bad I feel about it. And mama reminds me every day about how I ripped her. She tells me. And I thank her for it. Every day.