“And not only that,” Tami said, “I got an interesting gift from a visitor.  Look under the sink.”           Rod at first did not know what this huge object was that he was dragging out of the cabinet, but as he supported it in his hands he suddenly looked at it in horror.  “God...  this isn’t...”           “It’s not exactly what they stuck in me.  Mrs.  Wickland says it’s improved and they’re not into punishment any more.  There’s a remote there too.  Push the purple button.”

Now the men pull down with great exaggerated heaves on the slickened, gleaming ropes, first one then the other, as Patty screams, tip-toeing first forward then back.  Only her big toes and second toes touch the floor now.  Jill adds a little “sweat”.  Seiku and Hikaru are impressed.  It’s very convincing, and it’s all due to Patty.  She had told them that in most of their “hook films” the rope at times was obviously slack, and this was due to the men playing it safe as far as

The big blizzard rolled in last week, all day and all night and then more the next morning.  At Alturas the campus is never closed because of snow, everyone being so close.  The worst that happens is that maybe a class here and there is canceled if the professor has to drive in from far away, but there are only a few of those.  This blizzard hit on a Saturday so it wasn’t an issue.         We all watched from inside the dorms. By the time it ended, on Sunday afternoon, it was

Now she sat up on an exam table, hands pressed down on both sides against the crinkly paper, facing her questioners.  Actually the only questioning was by Dr. Vanaver, a young guy with glasses, as the colonel looked on with three others.  All of them, unavoidably, looking at her naked assets.  She tried to answer their questions in a calm voice, taking deep breaths.  Her pretty bare feet dangled below, the slow wiggling of her toes being the only outward sign of her nervousne

[MEIER outside cabin, watching SOLBERG as he attends to McNALLY, on all fours, in six inches of snow] McNALLY This is -- horrible! SOLBERG Just hold steady, Lieutenant.  I have to push a little more. McNALLY That thing is like a -- baseball bat!  Ouch!!SOLBERG           It was as small as they could make it. MEIER [watching] A kind of Geiger counter? SOLBERG Yes, rather low-tech.  But it will situate itself within a few inches of her liver and detect any emissions, and

Her C.O., and whoever else was copied on her mission, had to know she was being kept naked.  She was convinced of that.  Though nudity was necessary for the inspection, the inspectors must have thought it odd that she didn’t come in dressed in at least a robe.  And there was the all-over tan, and the tough soles.  The inspectors were obviously hindered by narrow terms of reference, but permanent nudity was the only possible explanation for the tan and the soles.  What else co