. and an aunt likeyou. I'm sure things will turn out --"Arcee stuttered to a halt and stared blankly at Neera as, within hermind, the Oversoul overrod... her thoughts and flashed a dire warning -- awarning that also hammered Neera and everyone else with its impossible-to-ignore intensity. Not more than an instant later, Arcee shook herhead and blinked, still digesting the seemingly impossible."An asteroid ... it ... it's coming right at the planet," she mutteredweakly, her grip on Ticci. One and sometimes two night stands with men I never saw again, As the years went by and my career blossomed I traveled less and less so I started looking for my lovers closer to home. I worked a lot of late nights on ad campaigns so an occasional night spent with a lover went unnoticed. On those nights I would hit one of the downtown hotels where a convention was taking place and take a seat in the lounge. It was never more than ten minutes before I had some guy making a move on me. We would. Instantly I became wary while I flashed back to a fam!ly vacation we were on and got a little carried away. Penny and I were bored, restless teens and ended up screwing each other a few times. We never went back to each other after the vacation was over and we never talked about it.“Well, yeah, sort of.”“What the hell do you mean ‘sort of’? You fucked me eleven times in four days, how in hell could that be a ‘sort of’?”“You kept count?” “Of course!” she looked me puzzled for a moment then. .. it's in their contract.All my secret escape pods come standard with a Corinthian leather interior, dual climate zone comfort system, satellite TV including the Spice channel, an AM/FM/CD/DVD player, an emergency small arms cache, first aid kit, foreign language phrase book, $1000 each in dollars, pounds, yen and gold, a small but decent wine selection, a box of Hershey chocolate bars, and a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror. A fellow could have a pretty good weekend in.