I lay down on the bed and waited. And wondered. Andlooked at the digital clock from time to time. Fiveminutes. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. I stood u... andstretched, facing the door. OH! Now I know what they’regoing to do!Erica stepped in with a camera, a high-priced camerawith a zoom lense and a huge FLASH! unit. She steppedright past me and around to the other side of the bed. “OK, Di, come on in!” she called.Dianne stepped in, still wearing the blue sundress andbarefoot.. " How about this idea I've been kicking around since 2076?" Hank asked. "Instead of warehousing people, zap them with x-rays and then release them. Universal health care and income protection in the year 2076 made that more practical than ever before. What radiation does is artificially age people--to oversimplify things. Using the sentencing guidelines, substitute a dose of 30 rems for every year of incarceration. You could even suspend part of the sentence to add when the convict commits. I lied telling you I just altered the part about the locked doorbut that wasn't what I did. You see Bree was just a plastic constructedpersona like the one you made for protection, not a real person. So thereason you thought Brent went silent was because I erase the constructedBree but made your sexuality match the body you were in at the moment.You thought since you liked men when you were Bree that you were stillthe Bree persona but you were just Brent. I wanted to see also if youstill like. He didn't think there was enough booze in the world to numb his pain.When Hal reached for the door handle, Fred growled, "You'll be back."It seemed as if the little energy that remained in him drained away. His head fell to his chest and his eyes closed. In a soft voice filled with self-loathing, he replied, "I know."Four weeks passed before Hal found himself back at the private club. He hadn't wanted to come back, but he was drawn to it like a moth to flame. This was the only place where.