An elevator shaft was the only light. "Wait up!" Wait up!" Soto repeated as Chris got both a foot and a handhold in climbing up the circular elevator ...haft. At the same moment, Mark and the others were forced to hide behind a barricade formed from a portion of cut away corner wall. As a laser from Captain Lightman's blaster sliced across Mark's shoulder, he could picture the pleased expression on her face. "That was close."Joining them was Roberta's futuristic twin, Starshine Chow. She was. I just had surgery that altered myface that I actually didn't intend. How could I not look obsessively atwhat was to become the outcome? I was no longer Joe but some version ofmyself that had been purposefully altered to be more female. How bizarreis that? What a strange set of circumstances that preceded all of this.Min-seo and Seo-yeou were knocking excitedly at the walkup door. "Theinternet is blowing up with this latest development. Money is rolling inand we have ideas how to increase it.". I spooned to her back and put my arm around her and placed it on her soon to be belly. At some point I fell asleep too.We woke up that afternoon and made love before getting up and going out to dinner. There is a Texas Roadhouse near my apartment, we asked to be seated in a back booth, where we talked about everything we could think of. We talked about work and music and baby names and what ifs. The what ifs included what if I was married and what if I had one or more kids and what if my wife. "I'd like to hang around, but I really have a lot of work to do." You should take care of your homework the way we do," Mike said."You guys just ignore it when you don't feel like doing it." That's right." My parents might get upset at that." What are they going to do, beat the crap out of you?" I don't know if they would go that far, but my mom could sure make my life unpleasant." Just tell her the work is too hard," said Danny."My parents already know that I can get straight As; they wouldn't.