Then boiled and eaten.Alissa had been the only girl, and the hags had saved her for last. When dawn’s sun shown, instead of eating her, the evil pai... dragged her deep into the swamp to their small homestead. A mud hut, a couple sheds, a pig wallow, and a ramshackle stable.The twins made the girl strip. Her luscious body bared for their amusement. They told her that if she could keep both of her hands on top of her head they would let her go.So the girl put her palms on top of her long red hair.. Some speculated that these males were transvestites or transsexuals.Others advanced the theory that these young males desired to be females because society, and the government, treated women preferably. A weakness in this theory was that the Suppression Act's restrictions applied to new-women just as they applied to original-men.In any event this phenomenon had affected only about ten percent of male minors and it now appeared that Cory was in this group, the members of which had been. If she had lingered any longer, he would have had her then and there. His ears were buzzing with the touch and smell and proximity and he would have stripped her bathing suit from her shoulders. But she reached for her towel and as she reached the door she turned as she flung her towel over her shoulder, ‘Coming?’ He laughed at the irony…. Yes, he was very close to coming, but he followed her out the door and down the path. They reached the gate and it was fully dark with just enough moon light. "More scotch," he staggered to the sideboard to clutch the bottle like a lifeline. He pondered this image. 'I am drowning' he thought then aloud, "drowning my sorrows". This, too, he found ironic. He didn't usually drink. It was his wife - more accurately now his ex-wife - who liked to have her evening 'relaxer'. "Anything you can do, I can do better" His voice was cracked and harsh, redolent with pain. So he started to laugh but it sounded to him like sobbing.Time passed. The shaft of sunlight.