.. of all these friends and loversThere is no one compares with youAnd these memories lose their meaningWhen I think of love as something newThough I ...now I'll never lose affectionFor people and things that went beforeI know I'll often stop and think about themIn my life I love you more... (From "In My Life,Lennon / McCartney)The cook swore softly as he examined the boxes and crates in Beautiful Burger's back hallway. The crate of fresh tomatoes they'd ordered wasn't there, a fact he was just. " We cast our energy beam out there like we would a fishing line," Isaid, "and what we hooked was the zombiverse's own fishing line. Evenafter we'd cut them loose, our 'fishing line' was out there for anotherfourteen hours. We got lucky and didn't make another contact, but whoknows what else we might have hooked? We could've opened up a portal toa universe even worse than the one we did. I'm sorry, but absent a meansof knowing exactly where the portal you're opening leads to, the devicestrikes. Wherever you may have learned them, your skills are accomplished in affording pleasure to both men and women. Yes, there are women younger than you, but when it comes to pleasure, experience is just as important, if not more important than youth."Marsha thought back to her "education" at the hands of Trent and Ginger."Will there be other women like me?" Oh my, yes! Worldwide our collection numbers over a hundred women at any given time. At the villa in Italy where you will serve, there are four. “What do you mean ‘actively’? I’m not dead for God’s sake.”He laughed. “I just meant do you make out?”“Not as much as I’d like to,” I said.There was a beat, and then, “Would you like to make out with me?” he asked.I was dumbfounded. “Are you propositioning me?”He said, “No. Well, yeah, I guess I am.”I think this would be as good place as any to say I found Clay very attractive but had not imagined anything with him since I hadn’t imagined anything could ever happen with him. He was the straight.