/tags/alienf-m/Recent content in AlienF+-M on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-us/stories/1/01/01/the-ship/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/the-ship/<p><strong>THE SHIP</strong> by No-one</p> <p><strong>1: The Orb</strong></p> <p>Bob wasn&rsquo;t exactly sure why he was here in the first place. Maybe it was that he got sick of listening to that inner voice that kept telling him that he needed to get out in the world and experience things that had held his fascination for so long. Or maybe it was that he was sick of being home every night fantasizing about being dominated by beautiful women wearing shiny leather, rubber and/or latex. Bob was from a small town originally. He had moved to the big city for a job that was interchangeable with a thousand other jobs in the big city. He was a drone, 8 to 5 in a grey little cubicle in a monolithic tower of steel and glass. Soul-draining wasn&rsquo;t even the half of it. To make matters worse, when he was able to find someone to ask out, the chance of finding a mate interested in becoming his mistress was very remote. The end result was always the same: they denounced him as a pervert and told him to hit the bricks.</p>