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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Humor
eBook Description: An alien virus has infected the human race and nobody stop it. That men can't get erections is just a symptom; men can't produce sperm. If a solution isn't found soon, there'll be no babies. End of the world. Enter Dr. Orville Cribbs, short, bald, and self-admittedly ugly, the only man who can rise, so to speak, to the occasion.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Fantasque #6, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [173 KB], eReader (PDB) [24 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [10 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [10 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [72 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [81 KB], hiebook (KML) [34 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [34 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [11 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [39 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [18 KB]
Words: 3013
Reading time: 8-12 min.
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I never thought I'd sleep with anybody who'd sleep with me. I thought so through 42 years married to Estelle Marie, right up until a few weeks after the end of the world. Then everything changed.

The reason I thought I'd never sleep with anybody who'd sleep with me had more to do with the fact that I'm an ugly son-of-a-bitch than it did with the fact that I have morals.

I joke around and flirt because it's fun, it helps relieve the tension of a demanding and stressful profession. Laughter, the best medicine, and all that.

It's also a defense mechanism. Being chief physician at Weston Memorial doesn't always prompt respect from staff as it should. Being the best goddam physician on staff sometimes doesn't help either. I'm stuck with the whimsical-sounding name of Orville Cribbs, I'm four-foot-ten, bald, and like I said, ugly. People look at me and have difficulty taking me seriously, but when I say something funny, they laugh and at least pay attention. It isn't respect, but it's attention. Respect sometimes follows. Occasionally, it saves lives.