There was very little that the crew could do and the Nautilus seemed to beckon each of them. With a last few orders to the computer, all of the crew l...ft the ship and wondered through the giant battleship.Techs and crew scurried, some appeared and disappeared as the matter transmitters took them to undisclosed destinations. Charlie and Paul entered their identities into the computer and got permission to enter the bridge. In one respect it was a let down, for there was only a few techs and. ‘This has been better than anything I ever dreamed up or wrote about.’ ‘I knew you wanted to be writer, but you never told me about the stories.’ ‘I know. I was afraid you’d want to read them…have me read them to you. I wasn’t sure how you would react. I’m not ashamed of them, but they are pretty explicit on the sex or they wouldn’t be erotic stories. I started writing them for the practice. The writing lets me handle dialogue, character development, some semblance of a plot, and may even help. "Twenty-six minutes," she said, giving my arm a final touch as she dashed off to class. I watched her go, really noticing for the first time what she was wearing. The two small mounds in the front of the pink sweater had brushed against my arm a dozen times and the short black skirt had been an extension to my pants for most of the hour we had spent together.That afternoon I asked Jimmy if his wife could make a rug for Sylvia, saying that I wanted to do something for her because she was helping. When the dust settled, the returning scout had spotted a blood trail. The platoon had been inserted to follow the trail.For two hours they had cautiously followed the streaks of blood. Someone, probably more than one someone from the marks in the dusty soil of the trail, had been seriously hurt. They had found nothing else though. There had been no bodies, no weapons, no supplies.Taylor held his hand up in an alert signal. The entire platoon froze. Then "Get down" came from the point man and a.