They were as naked and unashamed as she was."Chance promised me a quiet weekend at the lake," Tanya was saying. "I never expected anything like this."...I don't think any of us did," Chance replied. His eyes flashed to Cari and he smiled. "But, for one, I'm glad that it did. I feel a hell of a lot better now that everything is out in the open." You won't find me complaining," Barry said in a deep, breathless voice. He had just taken a bit over a joint of marijuana and was holding the smoke in his. What will I do?" I felt emotion welling. Not that it was a different sort of emotional reaction, but I just felt helpless in the same ways that I used to feel as Jeremy. "Project management is all I know; I can't do something else; it's just not right." I was crying."Estelle, I am not bargaining with you," Alex said."You have to," I said between sobs. "I'll go to the police, they'll be so excited to capture the person responsible for the lower east side bodies that have been turning up. "Has he fucked you yet?" Oh yes," I laughed, "has he ever?"“Well, save some for me. Where are you?”I told her my address."You're joking,” she said. "Are you in the flat above the butcher’s shop?" Yes, why?" Stand at the window." Okay."I did as she asked. Above a ladies clothes shop exactly opposite, I saw a young blonde waving."Is that you, Jenny?" Yep, I'll be across in five minutes."“Oh, wow."I handed the phone back to Michael. ”Did you know she lives in a flat over the road from me?"He shook. When the party came to power in Seattle in the year 2080, it wasted little time enacting its agenda. Men were suddenly slapped with a 25% "male" tax with the proceeds being redistributed to females, they were removed from any and all jobs invoking any sort of authority, from police officers and politicians to managers in private companies, and all unsupervised (unmarried) males had to register with the local Division of Male Management. They were also stripped of their right to vote, could not.