“I think I could put in a good word with the Director of CIT, to, uh, check your research. I know they’re already working on DNA studies of ghouls... Edward, in case you might want to trade your body in for a new one that’s ... well, fully human again. That research just started, though, so I don’t know how far along it is. It’s part of the reverse engineering of the FEV virus that they’re working on.”“A human body? I wouldn’t ... look like this anymore? I’d have ... functioning parts again? And. She pulled her hair back and slipped the two flowered combs one into each side above her ears. She grabbed the picnic basket and followed him out onto the sandy lakeside beach.Darren lay back on the blanket and watched her as she approached. Geez, she said to herself as she saw his trunks begin to tent. Darren was so easy to arouse. But why did he have to pick today. I have tests to grade. Summer session ended on Friday and grades have to be in tomorrow. And all he wants to do is have sex on. In fact he wished that he could get dressed thismorning in panties, dress, kneesocks and a pair of Mary Janes (or whatever they called those neat shoes that Diane and Tammy often wore.)Realizing that plan was out of the question he donned his usual boringold shirt, pants socks and sneakers and slowly went down to breakfasthoping that no one would raise the issue of a six year old boy returninghome wearing pink panties when he left wearing boy's underwear.Dad was reading the morning paper and. " He then took Franz's tablets out of his hand. "'We announce, ' he read, in the same tone with which he would have read a newspaper, 'that to-day, the 23d of February, will be executed Andrea Rondolo, guilty of murder on the person of the respected and venerated Don Cesare Torlini, canon of the church of St. John Lateran, and Peppino, called Rocca Priori, convicted of complicity with the detestable bandit Luigi Vampa, and the men of his band.' Hum! 'The first will be mazzolato, the second.