My drop-dead gorgeous sisters.Was it really possible ... were all of my lovers of late ... my siblings? Was this really planned by the Sun God, my app...arent father ... and theirs? What was the real story behind all of this? I was sure to get to the bottom of this mystery, though for now, the only bottoms that interested me at that moment belonged to my lovely ladies on the bed. With every stroke, I worked on bringing our rather scattered clan back together as a proper extended family, of. ”“Did you hear that, Mother? (Pause.) Yes, make sure it has an in house or on the premise restaurant. Seven o’clock reservation for five plus your party. We’ll not be renting a car and all that, just a short hop to talk and then on our way. (Pause.) Just you and John? John who? (Pause.) Thanks. (Pause.) He did? Please tell him I’m looking forward to meeting him, then. (Pause.) I’m not being a smartass, Mother. If someone has made you see the other side of the coin, I want to meet him. He’s. Kimiko laughed, “You’re an American! And we are not in Japan. If you were to ask me on a private date, then we’d have to discuss how things might work. But if we’re out in a group, as we were tonight, or with the larger group of your friends or people from this floor, then there is nothing to be concerned about.”“I more or less asked you on a date tonight,” I countered.“You asked me to join a group of your friends for dinner. At least in my mind, that’s a reasonable compromise.”“So had I asked. I was hovering in front of the black hole, still eating the star from the inside out. The black hole itself was now only about the size of an SUV. The whole mass looked less like an eye now and more like gargantuan maelstrom, the black hole similar to the darkness of the drain in an emptying bathtub. I was a hundred feet away from the surface of the black hole and the girl from my dreams was hovering in front of me. The two of us were naked, and while she was smiling, her smile was sad and.