We started to have an active sex life together as soon as we discovered our mutual love of voyeurism and masturbation. She was 12 and I, her horny old...r brother, was 14We poked peep holes throughout our huge Victorian house and watched our 16-year-old sister and 40-year-old mother play out their lesbian fantasies with each other. And while we peeked, we would masturbate, either ourselves or each other.I didn't think it could get any better until I came up with what I like to call "The. Maybe you were spending beyond your budget. I didn't know. I just knew you had a secret that put you one up on me and it led you to treat me as less than equal."But that changed. Little by little I became less important. Now I know it's because you didn't let me give you children." You can't!" I'll get to that, Betty."At some point you started cutting me off at seemingly random intervals. But I worked out that it seemed to be around the middle of your cycle. I got suspicious, well, more than. The passage of time appeased my sense of living within an alien body. Human beings are remarkably adaptable. While I was unable, for even an instant, to forget my appearance, I was quickly adjusting to the way it felt. Miriam leaned back in her chair. "Well, love . . ." Her voice trailed away, her face clouded. "What," I interjected, worried. "Is something wrong?" Her expression cleared. "Not a thing. I was just, ah, wondering what to call you." A name. ."Martha interrupted, "I don't mean your petty fucking; that was nothing and Hugo's never been the jealous type. Why did you tell Andrew how to run the planet in your first, what is it, six weeks? Making a switch in the use of men from mining to food production wasn't a minor matter, and Andrew is not one to under-estimate his chances of success. We could all go hungry if his plans don't work out, and we will certainly end up short of uranium to pay for food from Earth. If he is really badly.