Looking Through the Personals

Начало книги

Or should I call you seeker? :GRIN: What is your name anyway? And what on Earth is the InterStelNet? I know the Internet even reaches into orbit now, but did I miss a name change? I sent this as if you’re on the Internet and I hope you get it.

I just had to respond to your ad. It’s the first time I’ve gotten one in E-mail, and it’s wild. “Bi-sexual species,” “carbon-based” and “endoskeletal”? Usually I see things like nonsmoking, non-drinking and HIV-free. Well, I can assure you I fit your criteria, even if my endoskeleton is probably a little more deeply buried than most guys are willing to put up with. Occupational hazards of being a desk-jockey at the bottom of the world. My name is Sabrina Wilcox (saBRRina—it’s cold down here!), I’m forty years old and single, and if you are interested, I am a bipedal non-smoker, non-drinker, and HIV negative. Not much chance for infection when I work twelve-hour days buried in the middle of Antarctica, and the only men here are past their primes, married to their jobs or other scientists—and the only affairs they are interested in is the standard one with the Internet. :-(

Читать дальше →