We've always beenclose, but being twins should bring us closer together than ever." But I never had a twin brother!" I protested."Yes you did," said C...rla, running her hands over her hipsappreciatively. "Charlotte took his place two months ago and neither younor your parents, nor anyone else in the world for that matter, remembershe ever existed. When we pull the switch reality itself alters toaccomodate the change so that that's now the way things have always been.So far as your parents. Hmm ... it really deserves a cool acronym, like EFK for the Earth First Killer. The media loved that shit even if EFK was shooting for the other side!"They looked at me with identical looks of shock."I apologize," I told them. "We have business." I acquired a copy of the Black List from one of the sponsors trying to fight back against us. I'm not on it," Mr. Jessa said to me. "How can you know what I do for Earth First?"Lieutenant Jones folded her arms over her breasts. She wanted the answer as. .. beginning a count down. I was totally unprepared for that degree of forwardness but had to admit that I'd showered early and was sans PJs under my own robe that morning. Maybe I had hoped what was happening would actually happen. I've struggled all week with what I'd done and how easily I complied with Carl's perversion and was beginning to believe that I was indeed a closet cock-sucker. Any denial to the contrary was eroding away. I swept up the glass, disposed of the shards and sat back. . he was sitting in the front, seat 3A I believe . . . no, I was in the galley jumpseat when we went down . . . I remember his smile . . . he seemed so lost . . . almost like a little boy . . .’ The man wanted to reach out to her, wanted to hold on to his humanity for a while longer, but the strong arms of the vortex reached out for him and pulled him back into the maelstrom . . . He felt the arc of her breathing as his body lifted gently on the swells of her breath, and he felt himself falling.