Gort's face lost its last trace of expression."It's GOT to work!" Her sharp nails dug unheeded into the palms of her hands. Gort's muscles writhed aga...inst the chains and a hissing roar of rage and pain bellowed forth.Horvan was drowning! That was his first coherent thought. Waves of darkness pounded at his mind like surf from an ebon sea. He tried to scream, but heard only the crash and roar of forces pounding within his skull. He sensed dimly that he was chained, his body sagging limply. Now, I got a lot of women coming into the store and trying on stuff without really wanting it. But I especially like it near the time of the proms and college spring dances. (Yes we still do them here.)One morning, a young lady was waiting for the store to open. She is a beauty, and i could not stop staring at her. Her name turned out to be Blossom, or the translation of her name into english. This lovely lady was from India, and recently came to live in our area.Blossom came looking to rent a. "What we want you to do Jerry, what we NEED you to do, youand some others, is to go back to Earth, as ourrepresentatives and mentor those who are in the samestraits as you were. We'll identify those who are ready totake their own lives through frustration or shame, simplybecause they consider themselves perverted or worthlessbecause they don't measure up to what society expects fromthem as men or women.We'll send you to them to become their friends, theirguardian angels as it were. Your job. They were older than my wife and me. We started talking with these people.The man sitting close to Ana was Clifton and his wife was Sheila.The other guys were Mickey and Rhonda.During dinner I noticed Clifton checking out my wife several times. We all kept drinking and talking. After dinner Anita went out to dance and I stood at the bar. Clifton came over to me and he commented my wife was the sexiest woman there. Then I told him to go dance with her then.The black man smiled and he checked.