Once We Were Human

by Randall Allen Farmer

Part 3

  What Is An Arm?

  “Not surprisingly, it turns out that the Transforms have developed their own terms. When a Transform is ‘stripped’, their Focus has taken away his juice, often to punish him. When a Transform is ‘pumped,’ hisFocus has given him extra juice, which he often finds pleasurable. What a Focus does normally, to keep her Transforms alive is termed ‘moving juice’, which is best done imperceptibly whenever the Focus is close enough to her Transforms. Despite all these neato terms, the scientists at the CDC expect a cure for the Shakes any day now!” [Teen Glamour, August 1963 issue]