As Kelly thought about it a thought occurred to her. It would be too easy to just walk away and throw away that many years of marriage because of one ...istake her husband had made. She then thought of a different way to get back at Rick. A few days later the two of them sat down and talked about what had happened. Rick once again apologized from the bottom of his heart to Kelly, saying that it was a one time thing never to be repeated ever again. Kelly listened over and over about how sorry he. " The Colonel said. "Strip off your fatigues and put them in the box on the table please."The boots were the hardest things to get off, but not that hard. I'd often wondered how well those self-closing running shoes would do as combat boots, especially with the stories some of the Earth guys told about their military. The guy in the blue suit pulled a bracelet out of thin air and tossed it to me."Put this on over your right wrist. Don't worry, it will stretch to fit."It did slip on easily,. “Give me a few minutes, Paloma,” said Dr Kardos, without even looking at Paloma. He took the book, sat back in his black leather chair, and began to read. As the minutes passed, he sat there, every so often turning a page, his eyes moving with ever-increasing animation over the words. Minutes passed: five, ten, fifteen, and still he sat reading attentively, appearing lost in each page, each paragraph, each word. Finally, after some twenty minutes, he put the notebook down open in front of him. The main character was not careful to cover his tracks and finally got caught. All his toys were deprogrammed, and he ended up running from the cops. This was not an unusual ending to one of these stories… well it wasn’t until the author made another short forum post.“I managed to grab the bike and hide it,” the post read. “I can’t get caught with it. Maybe one of you can carry on with it… be more careful than I did. I’m not too worried about the cops. I’m more worried about the others.”“I.