I did go back to work but kept writing. What started out as a short story became two very long books and two short stories.Somewhere in there, I decid...d to retire. That lasted about two weeks, my company had needs for someone on the road, and I could use the money, so back at it on a supposedly part-time basis.By the end of the year, I was paying my social security out in taxes. Silly me.So I retired again, for real this time, I thought.Then I had a late-night snack of sauerkraut on chocolate. She knew she was hot and that men lusted for her wherever she went. The men came toward her, she cringed and tried to back up, but she knew there was no escape. She wondered what the man meant by She’ll do, what she would do for. She could guess, and it frightened her. She feared pain, and she didn’t want to be hurt, and though she was highly sexual and always aroused, she didn’t relish the idea of being raped, except in fantasy where she liked it very much. Each man gripped an upper arm, and. We have to install animal enclosures on it for Nick’s cattle.”“We have a lot of work to do on the Dragonfly, so we are concentrating on the Firefly first. We should have it modified and ready in a couple more days. Hilti Otingok is to be the new Captain and pilot for it.”“The other UNSEC Warship should also be here in time to escort them. The passengers can come to have a week on Utopia first if they wish or wait aboard.”About forty-five of Esky’s passengers were destined for Clarksville. The. There was much about the Solar System that was new to Vashti. She'd already made several significant accidental errors since she'd penetrated interdimensional spacetime and materialised in the continuum in which the Anomaly's presence was most concentrated.Her primary error, of course, had been not to understand sexuality and gender. The blueprints on which she'd based her physical form were an unfortunate mix of both male and female characteristics. It had been a mistake to assume that the.