Thursday, March 14, 2013

Inoxydability

By Brewt.Blacklist

March 2013

“WHAT’S WRONG?”

“Hmm? Nothing.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah. Why?”

“You don’t…I don’t know. Something doesn’t seem…right?”

“What do you mean?”

“You seem disengaged. Like you’re somewhere else.”

“I don’t mean to be. Do you want me to stop?”

“No. God, no. I just want to make sure I have your attention.”

“Yes. Of course. You have it.” He nodded. “You do.”

“No. Something’s wrong. Is something bothering you?”

She had caught him drifting off, daydreaming, suddenly not quite in the same room with her, again: there was something. He did it a lot, and she had never said anything about it, but it was time, even if it wasn’t the best of all possible times to pick to do this; can’t have him not being attentive to what they were doing.

His issue that kept poking at him was not in her or with her or about her—although he had a backroom wish he didn’t want to acknowledge, not even to himself. It was in him, with him, part of his issue-set. Especially when it came to her and what he understood to be what she wanted and didn’t. It always had been that way. And it bothered him; at times, he didn’t particularly like who he was, and wrestled with what they did together as they danced around the lines, the edges of right and wrong, propriety, acceptability, and he wished that what plagued him at night was more normal. Quieter. Vanilla, even.

“No.”

“Liar. Motherfucking liar. Tell me.”

“I…I don’t know that I know how to tell you; I don’t understand it myself.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to call you a liar. Motherfucker, yes. Liar no.”

“Yer funny. That’s why I like you. Keep you around.” He took one hand up off the bed and pushed her hair up and out of her face.

“Oh. You only keep me around because I am hi-fucking-larious.” She wrapped her legs around him, pulled her ankles against his ass and started slowly rhythmically baiting him against her. She looked directly into his eyes. C’mere, big boy.

“Uh, yeah. That’d be about right.” He responded, putting his hand back on the bed, following her motion, cooperating.

“Now you really are a motherfucking liar.” She rolled her eyes back up above her across the headboard once, and set about refocusing her and her attentions energies as she adjusted her breathing to a way he had liked in years gone by. Months gone by. Weeks gone by. Days gone by. Hell, just this morning. Right here. The same way, even. Well, almost.

“C’mon, you set that up: how could I resist?” He smiled.

“Seriously. What’s troubling you?” She reached up to try to give him a peck before going back to her procedures.

“Nothing.”

She tipped her head and drew one side of her lips back. She stopped doing what she was doing. Well, not completely. Just some of the more obvious things.

“I don’t think ‘troubling’ is the right word. Maybe I’m just thinking about something.”

“That’s what I said. Distracted. What is it?”

The semantic precision of the word she used or didn’t use didn’t matter; not this time. “I don’t think I should tell you.”

“No, come on. If you can’t tell me, who can you tell? What’s the worst it can be?”

He exhaled and looked onto her, relaxing his own face. She looked inviting. Why couldn’t he be satisfied with just making love to her? It was supposed to be enough. She even let him do this to her, this “extra”, not to mention the, uh, others. He reached up and put his hand into hers. She accepted it and squeezed it. She wasn’t going to let him smile his way out of this, was she.

“I—uh—it’s a photograph.”

“You want to take a picture of me? God, not like this, please.”

“No. I want to recreate one.”

“Do we get to go to Hawaii? Is it on the beach?”

“Sorry, not this year. Someday.”

“Boo fucking hoo. Oh, I know. It’s one of the Japanese Bondage girls, right? You want to truss me up even more like a chicken in some impossible suspension and meditate on me, right?”

They both laughed.

“No?” she asked quizzically.

“That’s not a bad idea”

“Oh, fuck. You know I’m not one of those lithe little things they are, don’t you? You’d need a winch. A crane. Maybe a couple. And it would terrify me, to leave earth like that. It looks hard.”

“No more than…never mind.” He had practiced a lot of knots on her. Had practiced cutting them off, too, when he couldn’t get them untied.

“Asshole. So tell me about it.”

Fine. Pennies, pounds, half-assed, full-assed, just put it out there, get it over with, be done with it, move on. She’ll say no, like she does about so much of what he thinks about when they aren’t in here, doing this. Which she should do, because some of it scared even him. “There’s a story.”

“How did I not know? Do tell.” She twisted, arching this or that, opening herself up a bit more, making sure he had a clear path to her, into her, come on baby. Come to mama. Er, cum in mama. Lord, she was such a perv; there was screwing to do and why was that not enough?

“There were four of them.”

“Four pictures?”

“No. Four girls.”

“Oh my god. You want to put me in with three other girls?”

“No, let me finish.”

“Sorry.”

“Jesus. There were four girls. Four legendary slavegirls. I never saw a picture of any of them together.”

“Legendary? Legendary slaves? Good grief; give me a fucking break.” She had to work to not laugh at him. After all, they had agreed: there’s no such thing as a legendary slave. They are simply not the stuff of legend.

“No, really. The pictures are what made them famous, and there were hundreds of them. Back in the day. Pictures of what they would do and what they did for their master.”

“Okay. I don’t know what that means.”

He leaned back up off her, pulling away, taking himself out—making her moan the moan of complaint, getting her to reach up, trying to follow him, having to fall back, thwarted, shit—propping up on an arm beside her, and started tracing circles on her belly. She accepted that just fine. There was no way he could talk about this while they were…in the throes.

“They were French. One of them didn’t amount to much of anything; there were only one or two pictures of her, and I think she bolted. One would hands-down stop traffic—she was intimidating with how stunningly beautiful she was—but she was never engaged, she almost looked blasé, dulled, stoic, like she was modeling. One was the most famous of all: there wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do, and she was totally into it, happy to oblige, very pretty, positively enthusiastic for the all paces he put her through. Exhibitionism was nothing to her, she’d take her clothes off anywhere; she would put anything and everything into her, uh, pussy and and her bottom: hands, phones, vegetables, shoes, pop cans; and she would screw anything and anyone and everything, you name it.”

Her voice came out low, “God, is that what you want to do? Public fist fucking? Oh, shit. Wait, that’s only three.”

He nodded. “The last one, who was actually first—she was the real girlfriend in all these—is the one that I think about. She was not the prettiest, there were things she hated to do and it showed. But there was one picture that did something for me that none of the other ones ever did, even though two of the others did the same sort of thing. This one was different; it has haunted me ever since.”

It flashed though his head that she might have taken the reference to the girl in the photo not being that pretty personally. It wasn’t about her not being pretty; he constantly reminded her that she was. And she constantly reminded him that she wasn’t. Well, she used to. Until the day that he called her on it, and yelled—actually yelled—at her for questioning his taste. How dare she poke at him for how stupid he must be, for feeling the way he did about her, and point out how little respect she must have for him for loving her and her body and wanting to make love to her and is that what you want me to believe about how you feel about me? No, god no, please, I’m sorry. Don’t say it again. Not to me. I won’t. I’m promise. It opened some doors for them, once that was off the table.

She didn’t make it about her: “Go on.”

“The picture was grainy. She was standing, with her hands tied above her in a doorway. She was naked.”

“This much I like. We could do that easy. We’ve done worse.” She wiggled and waved her hands and pursed her lips.

“The story that went with the picture in question was that it was the first time they had tried what they were doing.” He paused. Crap. Here goes. “She was screaming, with full bore panic crossing her face. It looked like she was being overwhelmed completely by what was happening to her. The thing of it is that she wasn’t straining and she wasn’t struggling. She was simply standing there—there was slack in the ropes—and despite having something truly deplorable happening to her, something she couldn’t hide how she felt about it or what was happening or anything, it was the idea that it was because it was…from him, that got my attention here.”

His mouth went dry. As often as he went over this in his mind, he had never actually articulated it all to the air, not even in the car to himself on the way to work. And it didn’t sound quite right. “You could see it in her eyes: she accepted it. And that last part is what matters to me. You know that. This wasn’t about anything else that was so obviously happening, terrible as it was. It was about love. I know, I know, you love me and I believe that completely. That’s the only reason I even bring it up. I’m not comparing you to her or any of the other women on the Internet or in the rest of the world. But this was different, and in it, I saw something I need.” He stopped talking: he felt like he was rambling, blathering, not making any sense.

Her eyes went wide as she listened, putting a grasp on what he was saying. “You left something out. Something important.”

His heart-rate sped up. “Yes. There were needles in her nipples. A lot of them. Big ones; she was really being hurt. Considerably. Ever so hard. There was no question about that whatsoever. Her face was contorted into a scream. Not a good one.”

“Fuck. You w-want me to to to let you hurt me like that.”

“No. Well, yes. But what I want isn’t about that. True, I want you to let that happen as it does; what I want is for you to endure being hurt like that. For me. By…me. Welcome me, accept that it’s me doing that to you and that it’s alright. It’s more than overlooking something or condoning what is happening because er, despite the idea that it is awful—because it is just awful—and it isn’t even about forgiveness. It’s a much taller order. It’s hard to explain. It has to do with how I know you feel about me, and I want to see that. In a way I haven’t. Does this make any sense?”

She lay silent until she had to take a breath.

“You want me to allow for this, what you want t-to do to me, which scares the hell out of me. You want me to submit. D-do I have to like it?”

“What, the being hurt? No, absolutely not. I can’t ask you to change that about yourself. Besides, that’s not what’s important.” He swallowed. “That didn’t come out right. You know how careful I try to be with you. In some ways, that you don’t like being hurt makes it mean more. I just don’t know how else to get what I need. I’m open to suggestions. I know it’s kinda stupid, and it makes me sound insecure. But you asked.”

“I see.” She swallowed. “I don’t think it’s stupid, and I know you’re not insecure. I don’t suppose you just so happen to have some. You know. Thingies.”

The blood left his face as he nodded.

The heartbeats in the room dared not make a noise.

It took another moment for her to close her eyes, nod back and breathe again, and yet another for him to untie her from the headboard.

###

AS HE was laying her back down onto the bed, having had to carry her there, she wept.

“I’m sorry I’m sorry I am so sorry,” was not how she pronounced it, but it was what he understood her to be trying to say, underneath the other sounds she was making.

“No. No, don’t be sorry, it is entirely alright.”

It was all altogether too much, too fast, too big, too hard. Too loud. It took her a while to calm down to be able to actually enunciate English again. “Please, please forgive me.”

“Don’t be silly. I should be begging your forgiveness.”

“God damn it.” Her face crumpled. “I so hate disappointing you.” The translation routines still had some work to do; that also wasn’t quite how it came out, but that didn’t matter. Her meaning was clear.

“No, don’t say that. You didn’t. The fact that you stood up at all counts for more than I can say.”

“But it wasn’t enough.”

“It’s fine. Let me do something for you. That would make me happy, to make you happy. Please.”

She palpitated around her conflicts, and it was obvious, tough as she was, that she couldn’t resist his offer of even a small comfort. “Would can will you—would you fuck me? Please?”

She should have been asking for painkillers, that’s what would have made sense. But he wasn’t about to argue with anything she asked at this point. Maybe endorphins would do it. It occurred to him that it was still important she be of some gosh darn use to him; he, in fact, had catered to her for so long. It made no sense, but then again, maybe it did. In a way, it was the only thing that seemed appropriate, despite everything else she must have wanted, she wanted this, over everything he would do right here, right now, which—considering what he was willing to do for her right now—amounted to pretty much anything.

This was…well…amazing. Unexpected. Better than he dreamed. Better than he deserved. Something he needed to live up to.

“Of course. You’re so brave.”

“No; no, I’m not. I am such a fucking coward.”

She put her hands up to his face and wracked herself with sobs as he knelt between her legs, and began to lick her pussy.

He had to. The utter failure of his erection at the doorway baffled him—he was so sure, he had fantasized about this so much and he never had the slightest doubt as to what it would do for him—and he needed to rewire some things another way to get to where he could do as she asked. He had failed to provide her what she needed for her courage, to let her see that he was excited, which he was, even if his penis didn’t think so.

He rolled his tongue along her labia, up one side, then down the other. The one thing she wasn’t was aroused—apparently, it was catchy—and he endeavored to fix at least half of them, at least half of that.

That was the worst of it: that he didn’t even get an erection through the scene at the door. That and that whole unjustifiable excruciation thing. It wouldn’t stop playing through his mind.

He had his own pride to put down—this was embarrassing, to say the least, to not get, of all things, a hard-on during the the the thing he has asked her to be part of—he had his own sense of panic to lay aside that he had taken things too far, that he had pushed her in a way she couldn’t sustain, that it was a sudden surprise demand that was way on beyond anything they had ever done, oh, god, they didn’t negotiate it properly, this was a disaster, and he would have to make it up to her. That he had talked her into doing something she didn’t like, that wasn’t even erotic to him. That he was just a cruel man, torturing the woman he loved for the worthless reasons of, dear, god, what was that?

He owed her.

Holy cow, he owed her. Houses, boats, jewels, trips to Hawaii. This foolishness was going to cost him. Dearly.

He licked her pussy, and suckled on where her clit should be. She was hiding, and didn’t want anybody to know where she was, because this was awful. He knew it was awful, and it was too god damn much to god damn ask. He swirled his tongue around the spot, trying to coax her out.

He referred to her clitoris as a “she” because she did. It sounded less impersonal when she said it—and had a kind of respect, or rather a demand for respect—but introduced a different kind of distancing; it felt moronic in his mouth to refer to it, er, her that way, and it was like he was trying to please two women, and not just one, geeze, was he being unfaithful to one when he played to the other? He had frightened both of them, in more than one way tonight. If he had two women, would that be four “she’s” he’d have to please? How the heck did that guy do it with four? Let’s see, that’d be four women, four clits, crap, breasts are “she’s”, too, that’s holy smokes sixteen…

Like that’ll ever happen. Especially now.

He couldn’t think fast enough to get his thoughts to settle down. He was deathly afraid he had damaged their relationship and more importantly, that he had ruined her.

Oh, he had had enough needles driven into him by the medical profession to at least know what they were about: considerably less complex than women. The tiny bits of metal with the pointy ends, finding their way in between cellular structures, breaking a few walls and membranes along the way, getting them to vent cytoplasm, being met with blood, and having the invasion conveying distressing information along axons and glials through filials, back to the top, to the head, the entirety of the nervous system reacts: this hurts.

It did the first time he had ever had one that he could remember, and it hurt the last time, and every other time in between. Which were numerous. Not the worst pain in the world, but one he could manage and he had convinced himself—as he dreamt of doing this, of getting something out of it, being guided by what he had seen in a ridiculous piece of amateur pornography—that she could, too.

The physicians all lie; it isn’t just a pinch. The best pediatric phlebotomists there are through all the student candy-stripers practicing on people when they should be practicing on oranges through the tough old hags at the hospital who had done this every day for decades were all liars.

He had grown accustomed to the lies and the action, the process of inserting refined metal into humans, and could even do it to himself nowadays. The slight flinch he had when he put the needle into himself was nothing any more. He could disconnect himself from it, observe it, even if his head still shook as he did it. Despite the pretty nurses who used to admonish him to please, don’t get used to this, don’t like it, so many people eventually did and it just fucked them up, please don’t, he eventually fell in line and did it anyway. Got used to it, anyhow. The pretty nurses seemed to not retain any respect for that nor for him once it had happened—we’re just doing our damn jobs and here you are, practically getting off on it, you fucking loser, we warned you, didn’t we warn you? God—and the old cantankerous ones just thought it was funny and would snicker when they thought they were out of sight and out of hearing range when he reacted the way he did to their actions.

Try as he might to pre-build the disconnect before it happened, the one he had engineered to try to not get involved with it, no, not today, please, not with this nurse who doesn’t want him to have the reaction he’s going to have when she does this, the small explosion in his arm or his butt or wherever when the needle came in still got his body to tremble the same way it did when he had an orgasm, a really good one, which usually involved her, the one woman he wanted to share this sort of thing with, and it wasn’t like when he did that to himself in the bathroom at work or when he would sneak out of bed at night because he didn’t want to wake her, no, it was when he was inside her—anywhere inside her, really—and he couldn’t hold back any longer and his head would throw up so far he couldn’t keep his mouth closed and his eyes would squinch shut and the race was on, up his spine, over the top of his head and whoever he was with would see it, he couldn’t hide it, it affected him, he couldn’t stop that from happening, thinking about baseball or mom or math problems couldn’t stop it it was going to happen it was going to happen it was going to happen and the world would collapse and he would make a noise he would make the same groan and his head would fall forward in either room, the bedroom or the hospital room, and one other person in the room would either ignore him or laugh at him try to hide a sneer, or she would put her hand up on his face and smile at him and kiss him, and it would be alright, are you sure, god, yes, and she would put her arms around him and pull him toward her and he would feel like he was being loved.

If anything happens enough, humans eventually get around to sexualizing it.

Except he had just proven beyond the shadow of a doubt at the doorway to their bedroom that it maybe wasn’t so for her. She obviously despised the petty little lines, they were heinous, and of all things, he felt it garnered no respect for him, for any of it. No love. Not now. She had to hate him. She just had to. Damn—yes, damn—it; he had gambled with this and with her and lost.

They should have talked about it. Talked about it lots, not just jumped up and jumped in, no, that wasn’t the way this worked, not how it was supposed to work, running in blind was was was…wrong. What was he thinking? What was she thinking?

After he had secured her, upright, her arms up, making a square “Y” of her, he fondled her here and there, getting her to giggle when he tickled her, and when he had rolled her nipple, to get it to poke out—it was getting to serious time here—he licked her areole, nibbled a little on the pretty little nipple, and pinched her and got her a little excited. She quivered the way he wanted her to. A lullaby, as it were, something she always liked, pretty much no matter what, even during her period when she would complain about how sore her breasts were.

He looked up and asked her one last time if it was alright, and it was, and he set about his business.

The first needle rested on her flesh lightly and she suppressed a gasp; his long standing experience with the damn things informed him that if he squeezed her as it went in, and did it quickly, it wouldn’t be so bad, and he was right. On that first one.

“That wasn’t so bad, now was it?”

She jumped a little, of course. “N-no.”

Which wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted it to scream, he wanted her to scream, and then go about fulfilling him with her promises of what she could do, what she would do for him: the obscure peculiar easy-hard thing that was so hard to describe, so hard to see, it had taken him years of staring at the photo to understand what he was seeing and what it was that got his dick to harden when he looked at it, because it wasn’t the way her mouth gaped or the sound the picture couldn’t transmit but could certainly convey, and he wished it wasn’t the idea that he wanted this agony to be the only way to get what he wanted—he still had parts of himself that really didn’t want it to hurt so damn…there’s that word again…bad, not for her, she was his wife for Pete’s sakes, the woman he had sworn to protect from harm and this, what was this—but he couldn’t see it any other way in all the endless thoughts and feelings he had and thousands of pictures and movies he had seen and descriptions and accounts and stories he had read to make it come about and if he could find another way to do it, he would.

It was this, or give up on a part of himself that would simply not go away. Which hasn’t worked so far.

He got two of those things that he wanted to happen. And maybe some part of him really did want it to hurt her, to have her be able to sustain it for him. Sure. That much was obvious. It demonstrated stuff there wasn’t any other way to get. He had second-guessed himself for so long he didn’t know what he wanted any more and that was part of the point here, to love her, and to want to hurt her, and to have that somehow be alright. It went against everything he had ever been taught.

But she’s here. It’s happening. This was happening tonight, come hell or high water. Go with it. Come on. It’s inevitable. We’re committed.

He pushed the second needle in slowly, taking his time, and she responded appropriately. First with a sigh, then a groan, and then she began swearing, doing everything she could to hold still, and and and she just couldn’t.

She shook, harder and harder, becoming less and less coherent as the needle gored its way through her flesh, the tender flesh she had erotic feelings in behind there not just a moment ago, maybe we’re going too fast, or not fast enough, get it over with, Christ, this was the place he could go to get her started getting worked up with the warm wet of his mouth, and here, no, ouch, this hurt, and it hurt in no uncertain way, that’s not what this patch of pretty flesh is for, please dear god, stop, no, I’m begging you, and she groaned louder and louder until the sharp bit poked through, godmotherfuckingdamnitalltofuckinghell that hurt.

Not there yet. They’d gone further than this before in other ways; this was the warmups.

Her head shook as he put his hand to her other breast and she began murmuring to him, escalating to please stop as he see-sawed the next one in, pumping it in, this wasn’t what she thought it would be, no, god damn it, and the invasion began again on the other side of her chest, on his favorite breast, how can you do that to me, please, god damn it, starting it in, pulling it back out just a little, going in at a slightly different angle, increasing the damage, and she babbled on and on, panting, pleading with him to untie her and take her back to bed, please, and she begged and she offered him oral sex, she offered to lick his ass, she offered to drink his piss if he would please only please stop, and she thrashed and did everything she could to back far enough away from him in the door frame, it hurt, and her arms kept her there, stretched, her “Y” now angular, the ropes to the corners made it so she couldn’t get away not far enough away god damn it and she cried she actually cried real tears, god god god god god.

She looked up in his eyes and saw his expectant look, what was it he wanted to happen here, shit, and she stilled and tipped her head and without her say-so, without her command, without her god damn permission, she felt her head nod, and it fucking began again.

God, this was good. This time, she screamed at the top of her lungs. Her sentence structure lost cohesion. She bled.

By the time the fifth needle was half-way through, she tried, god she was trying and it was so hard, how many did he god damn have, somewhere from what must have been the mush that was left in her brain, it hurt so god damn bad—it had to—and he could see it before the memory bubbled up that she remembered the word, the word she hated, the one she had prided herself on never saying out loud except when he would ask her if she remembered what it was, and she called it. She called it and she called it and she god damn called it. He frosted over, he paled, he quit breathing. The step too far wasn’t a step, it wasn’t a mile, it wasn’t a league: it was a displacement of magnitude. How could you to this to me, why can’t you see what’s happening here you bastard. Fuck this. Fuck you. Fuck fuck fuck me.

Cinnamon palomino flugelhorn whisky foliage apples bananas quail red red red red red red motherfucking motherfucker red.

The needles hurt—surprisingly a lot—on their way out of her, too, and he had problems releasing her from the door frame. He had to cut her down. She was dead weight.

###

SHE SEEMED to be swooning to his ministrations—god, how the fuck how, the room spun hard to the left, then hard to the right, stupid ceiling stupid bed stupid floor stupid walls won’t stay still, and god damn if her boobs must hurt, but damn if he wasn’t doing something right—what he would do to her when he was in trouble, it’d be better if you did the dishes instead of this sometimes, but this is okay, too, screw the dishes, and she pulled him up toward her, please, let me put my arms around you, come to me, please.

His erection had managed a weak standing; pleasing her sex always did something for him, when she would moan the way she would when she liked something, liked this, and how she would reposition herself, to make herself more available, yes, this he still liked, too, and and it was all an asinine idea, I’m sorry honey, I won’t ask that of you again, and as he was crawling up toward her, his face was drenched with her and she couldn’t see his own tears in the wet, and her hands stopped him right above her breasts, right above where he had laid waste to her, and she she she pulled him down toward them, toward the good one, to the one she always gave him first, and she repositioned him and herself, yes, kiss me, kiss me there, put your mouth on my tit, and she pulled him onto herself and she pulled gently but without question—how much more obvious can she make it?—as to what she wanted him to do.

Really? I don’t know that I can.

Yes. Really. Yes, you can.

Reluctantly, he closed his mouth around her wounds, and she flinched and he tried to pull away and she wouldn’t let him: she pulled him toward her her oh my god her h-heart.

“Suck me.” Her voice was barely a whisper, but it was the right whisper, not the one when she was genuinely scared like during those horrible horror movies he made her watch so she would clutch him—the bastard—and they would end up giggling, it was the sound she made when she was genuinely in love, in lust, in need.

How the fuck how.

Who the fuck cares.

He drew her nipple into his mouth and tentatively licked and applied the gentlest pressure he could.

The forces of pain and need arched her underneath him, forcing her breast further into his mouth, as she forcibly held his head in place.

“Hard—oh god—harder.”

He applied the same amount of pressure, and she writhed beneath him.

“More, you fucking bastard; more!”

The world drew up around him, around his face, and all there was on earth was her flesh in his mouth, and he attacked her, pulling her nipple in and applying as much suction as he could: his face hurt, his jaw hurt, his tongue hurt down to the root from all the pressure he was pulling on her with. His head shook from the exertion and he did not let her go.

She screamed, much louder than she had when she was upright, standing, helpless, pierced, defeated, and he sucked hard, like he was trying to rip her tit off her chest.

And she pulled him down onto her so he could do just that.

The rod between his legs insisted he make another motion, and when he got there, when he got his cock into her cunt, when he got home, the feel of his hardon was what she was needing and it was there for her and her mouth fell open for another reason and she was dripping, sopping, soaked, and he took her, and she drew him in and she coaxed him on, wrapping her legs around him back to where they had started this evening and she didn’t have her hands available to hold him then but she did now or was it this morning god and she cried throughout the affair as he fucked her and she squirmed and he fucked her like a whore and she fucked him back and he fucked her like he had to and he fucked her like he hadn’t fucked her since either one of them could remember when, as if they hadn’t made love in a year or three, even if it was just this morning, and he tormented her breasts and she screamed and she bellowed and she wailed and she cried and he cried, too, it had happened, god bless you, he got what he needed, what can I do for you, tell me, I love you, and she wouldn’t pull away and she wouldn’t push him away and she wouldn’t recriminate him and she shouted how much she loved him and she gave herself over to him and she took all that he dished out onto her and she swore how she would do this again for him god damn me all to fucking hell yes and how he would do this again for her yes I love you yes yes yes because because because of what she was—fuck me—what she finally showed him at the doorway, no, not the doorway, here, here where it mattered, in bed, in bed with him, and she was his, she was h-his slut, and in that, they were agreed.

“My bitch.”

“Your bitch. My master.”

Oh, how the world should know the fuck of this.

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Notes.

ADMIRATIONS AND acknowledgements are due to the amazing and fabulous Slaves of Aldonze, known to the world as My Bitch B, My Bitch E, My Bitch C, and, of course, My Bitch A, whose early hard needling images—particularly the one where she was in the doorway—are part of what inspired this story.

Inoxydable: the French word for stainless steel.

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Affront

By Brewt.Blacklist
March 2013

In response to a Remittance Girl Challenge

Hand goes up, hand goes down. Done.

His hand went up, crossed down across her. Over.

He pulled his hand back, angling it up, and drew it down across her flesh, making contact in the process. A split second of time. Thank god, it’s over, what do you think, a cup of coffee?

His arm crossed his chest, up and around toward his back, repositioning his hand behind his neck, and he back-handed his wedding ring hand across her face, forcing her head to turn down and toward his left, presenting him with the mark that the metal he wore for another woman left, clarifying the betrayal they shared that she would have explain to her husband with a story about a cabinet door, in a near future, and he wouldn’t be asked about, at least no, not at home.

This was not a simple attack on her bottom, the site that mommy and daddy swatted to get our attention but not hurt too bad, despite overreactions to those corporal lessons that any more have more memories of being a bad girl or being a bad boy than of any recollection of actual pain; human psyches go to great lengths to shield people from having to relive moments that actually hurt. Inducing the firing of her seventh cranial nerve was altogether different than the connections forged when getting other parts of her nervous system to limber up that she could find a way to like, like when he chastised her ass for being resistant to his advances which she wanted anyway, or when he swatted her tits as he fucked her after she gave into his advances that she wanted anyway, or even when he spanked her pussy to get her to shake after he had had his way with her, to demonstrate that he was still having an effect on her, something to overwhelm her by, no, this was actually forbidden at their first meeting—“open handed, not on the face”—and had been an inviolate law ever since the subject had been broached; it would require less exertion than the other swings he took at her, at least, physically, but this one came with a much higher degree of risk. She might leave him over this, making the ramifications of this little exercise today last much longer than the act; things would never be the same between them again. He had yet to punch her. Something for another day.

This was nothing neither he nor she took lightly; it wasn’t a casual act. This was one of the big ones, it represented in no uncertain terms a wall that was supposed to be solid brick and mortar, one he should be able to routinely throw her up against and have nothing reliably stick, as this was something that was simply not done, you wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dream, we’re talking forbidden city here, and it doesn’t do any good to even ask, so don’t, I didn’t, yes you did, no it was you, and the occasion of how they even got here today was unclear in both of their minds—one thought and would always be convinced the other brought it up first, even years down the road—and however it happened it all snowballed from there, between the jokes and the bravado and the assurances and the what-if’s and the does-it-really-matters that they went through to build up to it, which would cumulatively end up getting both of them here, now, and get this done, get it over with, we’ll try it, just to see, we don’t have to, no, it’s alright, I’ll see you there, sure, sure. Are you sure? Stop asking me that. And then they could move on from there. An unpleasant moment to pass through and be through with, so help us, god. Through. Whew.

This wasn’t a movie, and there wasn’t any kind of comedic script involving the Three Stooges, nor was it a Monty Python skit involving fish, nor was it a Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production of a bad airline disaster film, and I picked the wrong day to stop…whatever, and don’t call me Shirley. No, this was more like film noire, with Davis or Crawford or even that romantic shit Cher brandishing the weapon of a woman, the act she could get away with in public that he could not, committing assault and battery against someone who was guilty of doing nothing more than annoy her, making it clear that he had better leave her the fuck alone, and if you don’t believe me, there is another weapon in the arsenal, one that would taint a man much longer than the moment of insult of being sent packing with his tail between his legs at the bar—yeah, yeah, she shot you down, loser, ha ha—one that would ruin his reputation, perhaps irreparably and make it so he would automatically be mistrusted by women, now and forever, amen. I wouldn’t do that, no, of course not. Except they were here today to turn it around, turn it against her, to reverse the insult onto her, to humiliate her, to make it appear that she had been the one who had done wrong here when she hadn’t, it wasn’t fair, no, this isn’t about fair, this is about what you can give, what I can take, what does it matter, why is this hard, overcome yourself, overcome me, make me, make you, make me, I can’t tell you how much I hate this, yes you can, please, take me, shut up, you got it. Let’s get this over with.

His hand it went up. Should be simple, shouldn’t it? His hand it went down.

She whimpered from the crack, the room shook for a split second and then upended, there was a pinpoint of something deeper and a radiated expanse of something sharp spreading over the side of her face that felt like fire water, am I bleeding, it felt like it hurt far more than it hurt, hell, people pay to have this done, it’s a Thai beauty secret—no, really?—there was more to it than a smack across the cheek, he didn’t hit her very hard, but the wound ran deeper than flesh, it was a matter of pride, it was abhorrent, no greater insult to her than this, it was judgmental, it’s always a surprise, even knowing it was coming, it was shocking, startling, overwhelming, she cried out when he struck, oh, fuck, god, I hate this, oh, oh, ow, thank god it’s finished. She shuddered as she tried to breathe again, and she lifted one knee up off the floor, wobbling as she put her one foot flat, kneeling time was over, and she leveraged her way into moving up and...

His hand, the one he just struck her with, was there to meet her shoulder as she rose, and oh shit, what, simply stopping her, her leg autonomically returned to be alongside the other, crap, that came too easy, she had to retain balance, knees and ankles together, back into position, back into praying, and her hands clasped in front of her.

Oh, motherfucker.

“You know I’m not left handed.” He slid his fingers into her hair, the ones that held his faith in another woman, a faith he was here to break yet again, and turned her face up. Try as he might to not do such a thing, his face channeled Jimmy Cagney. Jack Nicholson. Steve McQueen. He was sneering stone, and the stoniness was catchy. The erection he didn’t have at the first go-round set itself into motion because of what she did, what she didn’t do: she stayed, she didn’t fight him back, and that was what it was all about, and all the saints had something to say, something good, something wonderful, leaning on the everlasting arms.

Her face crumpled, and she avoided looking toward him, she didn’t want to see, she didn’t want to know, her eyes darted around the room, flitting about toward where she had thrown her clothes in anger at the beginning, in disgust, my god isn’t this hard enough, do you mean it, I have to do that, too, god damn it, fine, are you happy, is this enough, is this what you want, and she couldn’t keep the distraction up and she had to, he wanted her to, and she looked up, it was an eternal split second to scrape her gaze up him, to do as he wished, he wished it so and she saw him looking at her, he god yes god no god yes wanted more, fuck me, and he held her head, and pulled his other hand, his good righteous hand back, all the way back up out of her sight behind him as he bent over her, the hand that, when he hit her with this one, with everything he had, getting his own blood to race to the tips, the blood in her face where it would become red raced to catch up, she would not be able to explain the mark away as a kitchen mishap, no, the mark of fingers would be unmistakable, the irrevocable result of what sounds like a simple abstracted inducement of an impact waveform that would cross her face, and he raped her, he raped her face with his hand, he detonated her world with the impact, threatening to push his hand right on through her head so he could applaud her, that’s what hands go together to do, god, too many nerves here, and every last fucking one of them hurts, you’re breaking something, they’re all here, all screaming, complaining and shouting, it hurts it hurts it hurts ithurtsithurtsithurts, as the kinetic energy raised and lowered her nose, wrinkling through her lips, moving her jaw and threatening to dislocate it, exposing her teeth, rippling the force through her opposite cheek and passing off into into into god his other hand please catch me don’t touch me—the physics of it moved his devil’s hand off her and he had to wrench his way back there, too, and she felt him return and he was hot this time, made of burning sulfur and iron—and the sound reverberated and bounced off the far wall of the warehouse and reiterated and washed them back over, a double exclamation point at the end of a long, very long, life-long sentence of manners and propriety and rules, and never having to hurt like this before, oh my god will it ever end, and the pain wasn’t the exquisite one that got her cunt to fire, no, it was the humiliating one, the one that focused everything in and screeched like a car crash and became the only thing in the world, the one that did nothing but take from her, and she didn’t just cry, she sobbed, and his fingers hurt when his forward sweeping motion gave out, and they would ache longer than her face would, and he flicked them in space beside her, and the motion picture stars, the old song and dance man who was better known as a gangster and the private dick and the thief all faded away and left him with his own face and it softened for a moment, and something welled up inside him he didn’t want her to see, not yet, something else was going to take priority, moreso than breathing, and he would tell her about it later, how it hurt him to throw her over the wall they had agreed on, and how when all that had been violated, all that seemed to be left was what he did next and how it seemed to somehow be the only right thing to happen, and it was alright, really. But her pride, it would suffer for a long, long time, and the wrong thing about her was that she relished it, god fuck him and god bless him, and when her husband asked about what had happened she couldn’t answer him, no, she had betrayed him, and had been performing that infidelity for a long time now, and this was only the beginning of what she deserved, and he knew what he was setting her up for, and he opted to go through it with her, because it was time, it was time for them stop doing this the way they had been, stop hiding in hotel rooms and in bathrooms and in parking lots and in this god-forsaken unfinished building that was sealed off from the elements but cold, where she knelt naked for him here in the chill and she shivered in her angers and rebellions and disbelief that she was allowing for this, that they were here to quash something in her before they even got started, really started, they had been simply playing before now, it was time to come out, and he would stand with her, be there with her when she confronted her husband, when she would be seen, seen like this, it was so obvious, seen as a woman who accepted what he did to her, for her, with her, and it hurt god yes it hurt, but it was worth it, after all this time it was worth it, she was worth it, he was worth it, yes, yes, yes, this will happen again, yes, fuck me, yes...

Neither of them even considered stopping him when his pants fell, and he presented her with something else to do with her face, her face which burned throughout the act and had a use beyond ache after all, and he took a pleasure from her, a pleasure that was arrogant and demanding and didn’t offer her any, and she gave and she accepted and it was right.

It was never about her. It was always about him.

Oh, the things she would have to do to keep reminding him of that.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Stall

By brewt.blacklist

January-February 2013

“PLEASE DO excuse me; I’ll be right back.”

Claribel scraped the chair back, continuing to smile and chatter as she stood, getting in the obligatory references to the little girls’ room, darn that Mother Nature and her cursed call, yes, yes, there’s a fire somewhere that needs putting out and I’m just the girl to do it, dear lord, if she had to go through any more, she wouldn’t make it. She didn’t actually have to run, but she was, well, focused, to say the least.

No sooner had she gotten the paper on the seat down and lifted her hemline and wrestled her knickers to her knees and turned but she leapt through the ceiling, stopped her heart cold and drowned, standing upright in a public privy with a shriek that at least didn’t reiterate itself when the knock on the door happened again.

“Open up.”

Jesus Fucking Christ, no. “Go away. I’m busy.”

“Open the damn door, Clari.”

“No! Leave me alone, Wyatt, just for a fucking minute. C’mon, night off. Please?”

“Open the door, or I’ll start pounding on it.”

“That’s not going to get you what you want.”

“I could come right through it, too. Do you believe this piece of wood would stop me? Open it.”

Her breath shortened; oh, god, what else he could do. If push came to shove, he could force the door open, unhinge it if necessary, drag her out by the hair, make her pee in front of their friends, then offer her mouth up as a urinal service to anyone who wanted it. Not that any of them would take him up on it, but still, the threat of that idea occasionally ran through her mind, and this was one of those times. She swallowed, let her skirt drop, and unlocked the door. Locks: this place was so upscale.

He opened it, shoving her into the stall until she sat back down. She was almost fully dressed and felt completely exposed, clumsy, akimbo.

“What do you want?”

He spoke slowly, aspirating down toward a low whisper. He often did that; it commanded her attention, and it had a low undercurrent of menace and malice and malevolence underneath that most of the time he didn’t actually feel. It had become a habit more than anything else. “Take off your dress.”

“No—I don’t want—”

He slapped her, violating a limit right off the bat.

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“OPEN HANDED, not on the face” was the first thing she said after his original, first-time-ever my-god-are-you-insane request to hit her, that had, until right now, after all these—gosh—years, been an unquestioned law. He was so timid that first time, so unsure of what would be acceptable, why she would ever even consent to such nonsense, it was just a fantasy at the time, to see what would happen, get it out of his system, and never in a hundred generations did he expect her to go along with it, to indulge such a petty little-boy application for such a forbidden thing that didn’t exist any more, not since the caves, not since the dark ages, not since granddad’s time, just say it, trust her enough to say it, she’ll shoot you down and that will be that, it’s just a demonstration that I have feelings I’m not supposed to and I’ll share them with you and that’ll be enough and it’ll be over and we can work on the trust we had broken so many times in other ways, and we can move on. She floored him completely when she didn’t laugh, when she didn’t scowl and she didn’t say no, are you kidding me, get away from me you fool, no, that’s not what happened at all. It was a quiet intimate sinful moment he had with his wife and she didn’t make him feel like he was committing a crime or a violation or a trespass at all, forgive us, oh Lord, as we forgive those who trespass against us, it’s alright, I’m glad you told me, I’m actually glad you said something, wait, would it be better like this, you don’t ever have to ask my permission ever again, if I understand how this works, I should, wait, should I kneel, of course, I’ll get on my hands and knees, I’d be glad to, go ahead, wait, would it be better if if I was was b-bare? She was she was willing to let him d-do that to her; by our Father who art in heaven I love this woman, I will never abuse you, I will never abuse this, honey, it’s just a little thing that passes, thank you thank you are you sure thank you. Yes. He spanked her lightly; it wasn’t much more than a pat on the back, er, the butt, and he clutched her long and shuddered and she watched him melt and yes-yes-yes she would do it again, it was just such a little thing and he didn’t make love to her she made love to him and he cried he actually cried she had never seen that before and it melted her and yes, yes, it happened again on another occasion and it was fine: she could do this, yes. She didn’t really comprehend it all but it was what he needed and she could love him this much.

It led to other things, this tiny little insignificant turn of an immature misunderstood expression of power, things they had both been warned against their entire lives, warnings they came to question as they got steeped in it all.

Things escalated, slowly, over time and as he relaxed with her and took care of her and took care of what he did to her, and as she found her own strengths in taking this on from him, and because he could do something slightly wrong with her and not be condemned for it, he opened up, he let his hair down, there weren’t so many eggshells on the floor, and as he took down his fences, so did she. He exposed himself to her, and not just by flashing his dick in her direction—which was never less than funny until the day it suddenly wasn’t—and she fucked him blind. My god, what was that, that, that was something I’ve been wanting to tell you for a long time, to show you something, something about me that I’m not supposed to. She finally confided in him of her own stealthy feelings of not wanting to be a princess, but a whore, being wanton, of burning for men—for him, him—and he had married a dishonorable woman and and that that is alright, dear, I still love you, thank you for telling me, I needed to hear that, I think we can work with that, and they played with that in secret, in the still of their home, never quite out in the open in the world, no one would know the things they would do for each other, and they eventually ended up being many. They never went beyond what she could handle. They never went beyond what he could handle. A fledgling sadist and a fledgling whore. He would tease her and embarrass her and ridicule her and make her do things she didn’t want to and fuck her and she would accept his need to hurt her just a little—at first, of course; it all intensified over time, are you sure that’s okay, please quit asking me that, just shut up and hit me—and she would do cum-stunts for him and she would get him to do even more things to her, things she had to goad him into and she would fuck him. And the secrets grew and took on a life of their own as they more and more got daring, dirtier, demonstrative.

###

UNTIL HERE. Tonight. At the tavern. There were friends just on the other side of that paper-thin wall, and she was terrified someone would come in, find him here, in the women’s facilities with her, doing god-knows-what. Holy fuck, it triggered something in her, something she fought but didn’t want to. Not here. Not tonight. Surprise.

The strike had not even finished leveraging her over to the side before his face was beside hers, being insistent, repetitive, menacing. “Take off your dress.” Wyatt uprighted himself and before she had gotten herself back up, he hit her again.

She simpered a little, clutching the side of her face while he waited for her to recompose herself until she could put her hand down.

“If I do that again, you’ll have something you’ll have to explain.”

“Yeah, my fucking husband came into the women’s room and beat me, demanding I strip off my cleverly assembled ensemble for him. How would you like that to be the explanation that came out?”

“How would you like to show what you do for me in our bathroom at home out there for them? Take off your dress.”

“They won’t sit for that.”

“Do you think it would matter to them that it wasn’t my idea in the first place?”

She choked, “Oh, fuck.”

“Now quit farting around here, and take off your dress. Right god damn now, Claribel.”

“Oh, shit. Shit. Jesus Christ. Fine.” She angrily wrestled with her raiment up over her head, bumping into him, mussing her hair until she could hand it to him, fuming, hating him right here, right now, with an inkling of a plan brewing to do so for all time, naw, you wouldn’t do that, shut up, asshole.

He took her clothing from her and hung it on the coat hook on the door. “That thing, too.” He pointed at her chest. Her dainties were still at her knees.

“God damn it.” She combatted her way into nudity and slumped on the porcelain, covering herself with her hands as best she could. She couldn’t wait any longer; she peed hard, directly into the water and was noisy about it. It vexed her as it always did when he would come in and watch her take care of business; she could never bring herself to look up at him as she urinated, despite his endless cajoling, c’mon, just do it, let me see you, and most of the time, she couldn’t even do it, not with him standing there, looking down at her, snickering when she would make the watery sounds. It was too damn far; this lesson of growing up was hard to break in her. Not like when he sat on the toilet and she knelt in front of him—coming in close, pouring herself into his mouth, being engaged with him as he evacuated his bladder, his bowels, putting her hands where he did when he did such things by himself, feeling the pulse, touching things she shouldn’t, god, will you fuck me—no, that was quite a different matter.

He lynched the corselet gorge on the hook over the other cloth. “Now take your panties the rest of the way off and put them into your pussy.”

“God, you’re creepy.” She wiped herself and pulled the chain to flush.

“Do as I say: masturbate.”

“That is not going to work. This is not turning me on in the least.”

“Then nothing will happen. Do it. And sit up and quit trying to hide yourself.”

“I really hate this.”

“Do I believe that? Stop looking like you hate it, and tip your head up toward me. I want you to look in my eyes.”

She rolled her eyes up and frowned and sneered and conveyed just how much she hated this.

Wyatt’s hands found their way the way they do to undo the clasp of his belt as was his way, opening the top of his pants which promptly slid to the floor, quick-drawing his wife’s gaze from where he had ordered her to look toward what he was doing as he pulled his own undies down toward his knees. Claribel stopped what she was avoiding doing to herself and said “Oh, fuck,” as he was working on unbuttoning his shirt and drawing it back to expose his cock to her.

He was quite erect.

“I suppose this means you want a suckjob.”

“No.” He put his hand onto his cock, and started moving it up and down, pressing it flat against his belly, just an inch or so in each direction. Up, down, up, down, getting faster.

Her shoulders drooped. “You know that’s hurtful.”

“Get back to work. And look up at me.”

“God damn it, Wyatt, please, I don’t like this. This doesn’t make me feel right. Not like this.” Her face had gotten to pleading.

###

THE FIRST time he had taken care of himself in front of her like this, making her watch, standing over her, refusing to let her so much as brush him, she cried. He wiped himself up with his own bare hand and spread it on her tits and painted her lips. It made her feel completely barren, objectified, and the worst was that she felt she was being excluded from him.

“Now you do it.”

“No. Fuck off.”

It was abhorrent for her to caress herself for him; almost as bad as him doing it for her. Sure, guys liked that sort of shit, but it was so invasive, so selfish, so fucking stupid that she could never get off with him watching.

She wasn’t a fuck monster—no, lead me not into temptation, not that one, not then—no matter how much he treated her like one.

After both occasions—because, god yes, he did it again, he just had to do it again, god damn it—of him showing her what he could do to himself, she withdrew from him for a week. He wouldn’t let her retreat the second time like he did the first and he lavished attention on her after that second go-round, making passes at her every day, making with the teasing that is necessary for love toward her, making lewd suggestions at every turn, but he was unapologetic for the insult and by the end of the week she relegated it to an occasional quirk that please promise me that won’t happen too often, I mean, sure, it had its uses, but please, it was much better to be involved and engaged and faithful with each other than to be dissociated, pretending we didn’t have a responsibility to each other, inventing distance where there wasn’t any.

The second time it saddened her, Christ, is this the way it’s going to be, hurry up, get this the fuck over with you shit, and she cried again. He made her lick off his stomach and suck his semen from his pubic hair and she despised being a cum bucket, a cum sponge, a fuck toy, nothing more than his own personalized living nudie French postcard to jerk off to, the fucking god damn asshole jerk, wasn’t everything else the jerk did to her bad enough.

Then again, maybe despised wasn’t quite the right word. That whole second week she was so mad at him for doing that to her again, pushing him physically away from her when he would get frisky, how could he, why doesn’t he get it, but she also couldn’t keep her hands off herself and attacked her pussy with a near-violent frenzy when he wasn’t around. She had no idea how to tell him how much it turned her on because it just wasn’t sanctioned, it wasn’t permitted, I’m not allowed to allow for that, god damn it, my god, no one would accept that she—shit—l-liked being a target for sperm. And when he flashed her for the umpteenth time, it all bubbled up and she took the plunge, she had to, she took the risk, she just had to, she took her husband right there in the kitchen, on the floor, and she she she told him, how she dreamt of of b-being a p-prosti-t-tute, can you can you…still…

…he fucked her in the ass. He threw her off him oh shit what have I done and he forced his way in and he used her he used her ass he used her in the ass with a howl as he pulled on her hair and slapped her and struck her and fucked her and swore at her and called her the name he would bring up in church and on the street that got her to twinge and he called her the name that he called her when he fucked her and when he licked her and when he made gentle sweet idealized love to her and when he teased her and he fucked her and she screamed for more than one reason and he fucked her and she sang as she fucked him back, glory glory hallelujah. That was a yes. That was a god-damn-woman-I-love-you yes, I love you, too, now fuck me like you mean it. Much better to fuck, much better to fuck like this, come on, cowboy, lift your hand and brand your soiled dove with your hot cock, which was an image that was only good once, despite having all the right bits and pieces, and why does that work that way here when so many other ideas work over and over, and they would laugh and wonder and shut up and fuck and oh, that’s better, stupid language, getting in our way, shut the fuck up and fuck, oh god yes sir. That was a year ago.

###

THIS TIME, it was different. She was simultaneously angry and interested and uncaring and embarrassed and I thought we were passed this and what the fuck how could I be getting turned on by this god damn it isn’t it enough that we fuck and you hit me and we fuck and do dirty unspeakable things and we play and it was such a jumble of emotions playing through her that she felt herself floating, and she saw something in his face, something from a night or two from so long ago when things would change, and something caught in her, and her free hand started moving again on herself. Maybe it had something to do with where they were, the amount of time they had, what was—oh my god—going to happen when they left the lavatory.

Small moist sloshy rhythmic out-of-synch sounds filled the water closet, along with the noise of human breathing through mouths, through noses, slight vocalizations, a rustle of cloth, a light clank of a belt buckle against the floor, and oh, how the thoughts swirled, thoughts that were not meek and not pure in heart and by god this is how we shall see God and they were not righteous thoughts and they had thoughts and feelings that were banned outside the bedroom and even then were suppressed by the children of god, by most people; most if not all of the people they knew. People who would persecute such things, who would show no mercy, who did not know the peace that the mercilessness and hunger and thirst this man and this woman comforted each other with all the days of their lives, for better and for worse, through richer and poorer, of the sickness that gave them health, until death do us part, according to God’s holy ordinance, love, honor, cherish, and fucking obey, I take thee my bride, I take thee my husband, with my body I thee worship, this is my solemn vow, I pledge, I vow, I swear, I vow, you’re god damn right you will, I vow.

After a few moments of the couple mutually abusing themselves for each other, she broke the silence with a whisper. “Will you cum in my mouth this time?”

He whispered back. “No. I’m going to cum on your face.”

###

SHE FOCUSED. He was going to do it, hell, he was doing it, he was making a whore of her in a way he hadn’t before, in a way that went beyond merely whispering the word to her in church which was nothing but annoying—not here, you fuck—or as they went to here or there, hither or thither, walking around in town with a conspiracy of intimacy which only got her to nervously laugh until they got home when she would rape him, or as he was performing oral sex on her or engaged in sexual intercourse with her, waiting to whisper the magic word to her in her ear as she came, or when she sucked his cock like would be expected of such a lady of the evening, over and over and over, god, I can’t get enough of that, neither can I, say it again, do it again, yes, yes, and even though she didn’t want whatever this was that was happening to happen here, no, please, not here, something in her overrode how terrible, loathsome and wrong it was that he did this to her at all, please, not like this, but god yes, and and and she liked it again, god bless you, my dearest husband, god bless you all to fucking pieces.

“Dear god.”

“And you aren’t going to wash up before you go back.”

“Y-you’re a bad man.”

“And you are a fucking slut.”

“Oh, god.”

Things were escalating; his hand was moving faster as was now hers; they drilled their stares into each other with determinations and commitments that were somehow the same and somehow different and their breathing somehow synched up. He pursed his lips and completed and she gasped. She watched him and he blurred and she watched him make the face that only meant one thing and she loved him.

He didn’t spray, it was more of a splootch or two that landed on her cheek below her eye, a drip splashed on her breast, and the rest went into her hair. Her breath caught and she asked, “May I cum, please?”

“No.”

“You bastard. Thank you, you fucking bastard. God damn it.”

“I didn’t say stop.”

“What? Oh, god.”

“Keep playing with yourself; you can suck the end of my cock now, if you want.”

She lunged at him, and it was his turn to gasp as she suckled him, eeking out the last drops. She nibbled him with her teeth, applying pressure, working on getting him to squeal. His cock in her mouth was a gift from God, for both of them.

He recovered from her attack with a whoop and a Lordie and managed to find a way to keep to his feet with a cock-milker attached to him, nursing on his sex, breathing erratically through her nose; he stood stoic, watching her work herself up some more. “Get closer, Claribel, because I will deny you. You will ask if you can cum again and I will say no, and you will stop.”

She moaned around his dick and ravaged him, drawing him in, getting his penis in her mouth to wiggle, flicking him around inside her mouth with her tongue, chewing on him with her molars getting him to flinch, massaging the base of him with her lips. She breathed deep through her nose, inhaling him, getting his hair into her nose where it tickled, she could live like this, with his cock in her mouth. She whined and she frantically moved her hand faster and faster, two fingers sliding up and down around her clitoris, driving through her labia; she was soaked, she closed her eyes, relishing the cock in her mouth even as it was getting smaller, she prayed he would go ahead and at least allow her to fulfill her oh-god-please duties as his outhouse, getting closer closer closer and god fucking damn it he did it yes do it he released he peed he pissed just a little in her mouth god that made her fucking wild with lust so fucking filthy and I’m sucking his fucking cock and he’s fucking pissing in my fucking mouth I am a fucking hole he shoves his cock into and pisses in and fucks god yes he fucks me god yes god yes and she threw herself back from him with a puff and a sputter and and a a wheeze, please, please, please let me cum.

“No. Take your slut hands off yourself right now, you cunt.”

She groaned and slouched but did as he said, whimpering, her breath shallow and quick; she palpitated. “God fucking damn you Wyatt; it’s been every god damn day now for two fucking weeks.” She tried once to put her hands back anyway and he restrained her and she wailed. She submitted. Now: now she cried; he executed her pleasure. The power they exchanged circled them like angels, like devils, devouring them and it was good, terrible, good, terrible, good, good, god damn good.

###

BEFORE TONIGHT, he had fingered her in bed until she asked and he said no and then she couldn’t sleep and he made her roll over and he put his hand on her breast and held her as she shuddered in frustration, night after night, keep your hands off yourself, that’s for me, it’s mine, give it to me, oh god, please, yes, here, feeling his erection poking into her back, against her ass, and she would wiggle against it and sob until she finally did fall asleep, god, it was torture.

It went on for a day, and then two, and then three, and then four before he would let her finish. Then he would start over and do it all again, and this was as good as hitting her. With this, she suffered, she actually full-on god damn suffered for him—your pleasure is mine, mine to giveth, mine to taketh away—and that, that he couldn’t get enough of.

Neither could she. As hard as it was, neither could she, and she descended or ascended or whatever it was that was happening to her and she submitted to whatever he wanted, thy will be done, and it was glorious when she came, when she finally came, it was the motherfucking kingdom and the power glorious.

The day before she woke him up by sucking his cock, hoping it would get him to relent. It didn’t but he pissed in her mouth right there in bed and she screamed with the frustration of not getting to cum—especially from that—and this morning he pinched her nipple until she woke up and he made her do it again. Fuck, what have I gotten in to, deliver me from evil.

Hell, that’s what. He dragged her through hell, face up, so she could see heaven from down here, and long for it. Thy kingdom cum.

###

“GO STAND in front of the mirror so you can see what you’re doing, and rub the sperm into, let’s see, not your good wanking hand side, the other one, the one my hand was on.”

She started to reach for her apparel with one hand with a frown, and to pull her bloomers out of her pussy with the other. “No, no. You can get dressed after you’ve fixed yourself back up.”

“Fuck you, Wyatt.”

“Hurry up. They are going to start to wonder about us.”

She hesitated for one last long baleful second, and stepped to the mirror and began to rub the semen into her face, putting herself back together—god, could I go out there like this, is he going to let me have at least some of my dignity—spreading it around, hating how it shone, doing what she could to get it out of her hair as best as she could, god, is what just happened in here as plain as day, fuck. Her breathing quivered; she was conflicted. She scooped the last bit as it started to drip off her breast.

“Oh, and force some up your nostril. The one on the other side from your war paint.”

“Oh, godshit.”

He inspected her as he was buckling his pants when she presented herself, nude, panting, heaving her breasts, ashamed of what he was making her do in front of their friends, please, can’t we just go home, no. Not that she would dream of stopping it at this point. It was all she could do to keep her hands at her sides. “Pull out your silkies and put them back on, and finish getting decent.”

Oh, yuck, they were drenched. Yum. Yuck. Yum. Oh, fuck me. Not now.

At the end of the back hall of the establishment they were eating at tonight he took her hand—the one she had painted herself with, and she breathed noisily through her nose, inhaling him as though the smell of semen was more important than oxygen—before they went back into the dining area, and she rubbed his stink into the back of his hand massaging the bones, with the tips of her fingers, with a shy smile and a lowering of her eyes. If she had to be covered with him, then by god, he had to, too.

###

“LOOK WHO I found!” they announced at the same time as they walked into the main room and they laughed and rejoined the soiree. She hiked the back of her petticoats up and bunched it above her butt at the last moment, sure no one could quite see her do it, they weren’t paying attention to her, they had seen her sit on a chair before—okay, maybe not like this, for sure, no, this was something she did at home for him, for her husband, it satisfied something to him that she didn’t even know where that proposal came from, like when she crawled to entertain him that was so silly, so funny, until she did it naked and that was different—so she wasn’t sitting on it: she wrinkled it a different way; she had her bare legs and her bare ass directly on the seat and just the thin line of the threads of her underthings between her legs keeping her pussy from making direct contact with the chair. Not quite like at home. Almost, but not quite. He sat tall and stiff, towering over her, looking down the front of her outfit, oh yes, what is under all that, oh, what I have just seen, and what I will see again tonight and oh, what I could do with such a god damn glorious sight, and he kept his smiles to himself.

The sperm dried and contracted and tightened against the skin on her face throughout the rest of the evening; it flaked and looked like a sunburn that was peeling over her blushing, over the hand prints. Keeping her face generally turned toward her husband made it appear like she was attentive to him, adoring him, coming on to him, submitting to him. He liked that; she struggled with it. She wasn’t sure what to do with her hands; one smelled like her, the other smelled like him, and she fidgeted a lot. At one point she ran her fingers of one hand and then the other around the rim of his drink, absently flirting with a little hidden something extra they shared and she smiled a bashful dirty coy smile when he took a drink from it. After whiskeyed-coffee—our daily bread—and a fancy dessert he leaned over and calmly offered to let her cum, if she did it out here, and she could be as quiet and discreet as she wished.

“Fuck you.”

“That’s my girl. Now play with yourself under the table, get your little hand moving right along with it all on your little cunt. Oh, and that was an empty promise: I will deny you again. Go.” He turned back and made lame jokes with the other people at the table. They shoot lame jokesters, don’t they? Hey, she could hope.

He thrilled to the slight trembling she was leaning up against him with. She sat close to him; it presented the appearance they were in love—having the saloon be packed helped there—but the truth of it was what got his gears to turn. She was debased to be sitting here, covered but on display, tidy but sloppy, prissy but shameless, an absolute gutter whore for all who knew how to see, covered in cum, his cum, she was going to make herself orgasm here for him for his whim, for his own twisted desire to see her do that in public and she let him have control over that and she pressed into him to save her, and the paradox that he put her in this situation was part of what he got out of this, that she would do even this for him, my god, no greater love hath a woman than this. It didn’t always work. Sometimes her rebellions got out of hand and then he looked like nothing but an asshole when he wouldn’t back down, you are such a fucking monster, and nothing but a pansy-ass wimp when he would, what do you think, should we maybe press the doilies today, too, my dear? But on nights like tonight, when she would fight but cave, the power of it all overwhelmed him and her both, and he did everything he could to restrain himself, from letting it get too far and throwing her on the table and fucking the daylights out of her right here in front of god and everyone.

Which would be fun, to say the least. Someday. See what a god damn glorious slut I have?

She had her own battles to wage with herself and with him and with her waiting adoring tittering unaware public. She wanted to take off her Sunday best, let them see the other marks on her body, the ones they had both fought hard to have happen, let them see the bitch who fucks, who lets men, one particular man, do things to her she wasn’t supposed to, and she did things for him she desperately wanted to that he actually wasn’t all that interested in but allowed for it, god bless him—it showed how far she would go for him and that much he liked—as long as she cleaned up the mess, and saw to it she didn’t smell like a sewer all the damn time.

What the fuck was wrong with her to make her want that? Motherfucker.

Having her pleasure herself in front of their friends in public while trying to remain unseen as doing such a disgraceful thing while wearing slimy pantalettes with his semen on her face got his own breath to arch through cycles of nitrogen-and-noble-gas feast and famine, she was such a slut and he loved that, it made his hard-on return with a rage and a vengeance under the table, bringing its own warpath, nagging him to get her to go under the table to take care of it: another approach to his problems worth daydreaming about.

“Wanna fuck?” He whispered to her. She didn’t answer, not with words. She was busy ignoring him, talking to the person next to her without turning the humiliating side of her face away from the man she pledged her troth to, appearing to be coy and cute to those who bothered to look when all she really wanted to do was hide the side of her face that smelled like her husband, that was tight from the drying of sperm, that just had to look obvious by now, she wanted to go, she wanted to get out of here, to take her lord and master to the street and fuck him right there in the dirt in front of god and everyone and disobey him when he would deliver on his promise of denying her yet another orgasm.

Damn him. He had been playing with this and pissing her off and turning her on for months now, making longer and longer stretches he would deny her and when he would let her, when he would let her cum, the fucking world would fucking end a glorious fucking end and as much as she hated going through the process, the fucking end justified this fucking means, and he succeeded in pushing yet another one of her buttons when he reached under the table and pulled slightly on her thigh. Maybe he would wank her with her; help, as it were, ooh, I do declare, what a lovely gentleman-caller, tipping his hat, laying out his coat over a puddle, I picked these flowers for ya, why laws-a-mercy, thank you kind, sir, yes, this is my vagina, may I offer it to you. Having fingers from both of their hands inside her made the location of the axis of the whole fucking planet shift. She jostled her hips enough that she could start to slowly spread her legs, hitching the front of her gown up further, and leaned forward to the edge of the table.

She leaned her semen-stained face onto her hand on the table—looking bored to those who looked; shit, anything but…—and the heat poured off her skin, or was it the spunk, as she began her work and fuck him he pulled his hand back out, god damnit, I’ll show you, you bastard, her lover’s work was working on herself right out there, in public, in front of friends as she rubbed herself, she played with her slit, ohmigod, how scandalized would everyone be to know what a fucking slut and a fucking whore and a fucking bitch and a fucking cunt she had to be, she just had to be, to do such a thing here, now, at the behest of her fucking rat’s-ass-bastard husband who godamnit would not let her finish, not here, not now, and this was simply an exercise in frustration she could not walk away from because secretly she loved not having this kind of control, it was something else she could give up to him, too, please take it honey, you said I could cum and I will make myself believe that you will let me this time, because now, now it will be motherfucking mortifying for me to make the face that we all know what it means, to make the sounds that don’t have any description beyond “a woman in orgasm” and to do it all to give-us-this-day surprise you all, we’ll probably get thrown out, everyone will laugh at me, some of these people will never speak to us again and I don’t care I’ll do it for you if that’s what you want I don’t care I want to cum I want to cum I want to cum I want to—

“Stop,” came the whisper she couldn’t didn’t wouldn’t refused to had no capacity no desire no motivation no way in god’s green earth could she take the meaning of what that meant she doesn’t want to hear. God damn it, wife.

—cum I’m going to there is no power in the world that is going to stop me I’m disobeying you you monster for teasing me relentlessly for so—

“I said stop.”

—god damn fucking long oh shit oh shit oh shit—

###

HER FACE expanded, the noose tightened and she couldn’t breathe, her head-holding-hand shot down to the table, grabbing the first glass she could put her hand to, which ended up being her husband’s, the one she had polluted with her fingers that were full of him and full of her and she yanked it up to her lips half-no-mostly blind and sucked on it and oh my fucking god I’m drinking us and she took a drink that was big and desperate and overwhelming and—

“Claribel. Are you alr—”

—she started coughing and it was a fit that she couldn’t stop and she leaned over the table and her hand flew and she dropped the glass and she coughed and she came as she hacked and she came and water came up her nose and she came and her knots all exploded and she wet the oak of the chair right through her already-soaked modesty-cloth she came so hard she came she came she came. A tear fell. The table felt cool against the hot side of her face. She shed some white flecks onto the tablecloth. An eternity of rest transpired.

Wyatt patted the back of his wife as she brought the attention of the entire table to her and whatever blushing she was doing before paled in comparison and god damn it woman you insolent disobedient brazen—

“Are you alright?”

—and she coughed on and gasped on and on and wheezed on and on and on and she still couldn’t breathe and she fought to cover and recover and my god she was still cumming and then she was laughing and apologizing and bringing her one hand then the other the one that had fresh smells to her face and she inhaled the sex and she closed her eyes and she relished and came down in shivers and she made a face—not the unmistakable face, but a face that spoke of embarrassment, and apology, and I’m sorry don’t pay no mind to me, I’m okay, really—and the party reluctantly carried on look at her was she choking no she’s fine keeping an eye on her out of the corner of their eyes as she waved her hands and smiled and laughed.

He rubbed along her undergarments and leaned over to whisper what everyone assumed would be the right thing for him to whisper, about her being alright, and gosh, are they going to go, she really looks like that was hard on her, poor thing, it’s been a long night already, you know Claribel is so devoted to him, it took it all right on out of her, yeah, they’re outta here, I hope she’s alright, do we have to go too, I’ll be sure to call on her in the morning.

“Bad girl. No hands tonight; I’m gonna use my belt.”

She turned up to whisper to him, rubbing some of the dried sperm onto the side of his face as she passed and she kissed him; she put her arms around him. “Bring it on, you pansy-ass bitch.” When they finally got home, she howled long into the night, when they weren’t taking a break from that little expression of trust or whatever the hell it was between each other for some serious fucking, piss drinking, ass fucking, when are we going to get your whole asshole hand inside me, asshole, soon, baby, soon, and the face fucking, the hair pulling, the fucking, getting the other side of her face to match in redness, too much, gotta re-correct some more, god, the eternal profanity, and don’t you ever stop fucking, fucking, screaming, fucking, fucking...

###

THEY EXCUSED themselves for the evening and did not even make it to the wagon before other more pressing matters exerted themselves and she lost some underwear in the process. A small price to pay, she thought; it would take another month for the apocalypse to come about again, a month—after which it was two months until her annihilation came about again, and then three before decimation and then four before holocaust, and then winter set in and she went positively insane until spring came around again and he turned her loose in town for Armafuckinggedon, my god, there wasn’t anyone or anything she wouldn’t fuck by then—which for now presented her with a much more difficult set of chores, what with the edging, and the kneeling, and the cock-sucking-way-on-beyond-loving-gentle-caring-fellatio blowjobs, I love it when you gag, honey, it’s glorious, and the clit rubbing, and the stoppings, and the startings, and the endless dirty talk, and the starting, and the stopping, and the at-fucking-last fisting, god, and the spanking and the whipping and the wax and the needles, please, dear god, Wyatt, haven’t I suffered enough, no, Claribel, you fucking cunt, you fucking haven’t, you will touch yourself every day and you will stop just as you are about to cum, you bitch, then you will do it twice a day, and then three and then four, you worthless whore, yes sir, and the starting, and the stopping, you will cry every god damn day, oh my fucking god yes, and the rimming, and the night after night after night of the disgusting awful terrible why-aren’t-these-boring-me dirty stories from Genesis, Judges, and the Song of Solomon that they would read to each other and what did they mean along with what the Apostle said about men and women, wives, submit to your husbands, oh, okay, sure, if you put it that way, fuck me, it was the lack of hysterical paroxysm, the build up with no release, the damn relentless vulvar stimulation, god fucking damn it all to fucking hell, please, and putting everything she could please in her pussy and in please her asshole and in her please mouth, please, and the ferocious endless delicious devilish frustrating dear god when will this ever stop teasing, never you slut, never, fuck me for ever and ever, you bastard, god fucking damn you, fuck me, please, please, please…

 

Friday, February 15, 2013

Inauguration

By brewt.blacklist

January-February 2013

I’M SURE.

Thank you.

You’re not supposed to say that.

Who says?

It’s expected. You say what you want, I say it would be fine, master, and that’s the end of the conversation. And we set about…your business.

Master, huh. We’re not that far.

Girl can dream, can’t she?

And that’s the best dream you can come up with?

Yes, sir.

Oh, demotion.

Forgive me. Master.

I’m just giving you shit. None of that owner-sir-master-lord shit means anything to me anyway. You don’t have to call me anything.

It seems weird.

Names are powerful things. They give the person who pronounces them power.

I suppose that’s why I’ve always reverted to titles. It confirms my station. Do you want me to shut up?

Not at all. I want you to talk and blather and tell me everything you’re thinking and feeling.

It’s going to get pretty repetitive in a short bit.

I can deal with that. Are you scared?

Yes.

Why? You’ve done this before.

Yeah, and it was always hard and awful and you do understand this is going to hurt, right?

More than you think you know.

Bullshit. Wait, I’m sorry.

No, no. Swear all you like.

Really? That’s not normal, either.

I don’t care. Wouldn’t it make this any easier?

I don’t know. I’ve never had permission before.

Well, you have it now.

Thank you. I think.

There are those words. I am going to ask you one more time. All the way, right?

Yes.

Until at least one of the liquids I’m interested in comes out of you: blood, tears, urine. Spit and sweat don’t count.

Yes. Shit, I almost said ‘sir.’

See? Swearing comes easily.

Yes...I almost did it again.

Look, you don’t have to make a big deal about it either way. Say what you want, how you want, call me what you want.

Okay. It’s just not what I’m used to.

Are you ready?

You know that question hasn’t got the slightest bit of meaning here, don’t you?

Yes, but it does convey a courtesy that I am interested in.

I appreciate that. Go ahead.

Take off your clothes. Please.

You don’t have to say please.

Yes, I do. Nasty girl, taking your clothes off for a man who is going to do something terrible to you.

That, that I liked.

Fucking slut.

God, yes.

Fucking whore.

I not supposed to like it when you call me that, but I do.

Fucking cunt.

Oh, god.

Tell me what you’re feeling, you fucking bitch.

I haven’t been spanked by hand until I cried since I was a little girl.

Well, we’ll see how long I can do this.

You might break your hand.

Would that be an interesting exchange? A good trade?

I-I don’t want you to get hurt. That’s what’s supposed to happen to me. But spanking me with a cast would probably get what you want to happen faster.

It would leave quite the marks, wouldn’t it? Assuming I could stand it.

I cannot imagine being spanked until I bled. Or pissed.

I brought some other things to, uh, accelerate the process. Whip. Cane. Sjambok.

I don’t know how to thank you for that.

I would expect that before we get that far, you’ll probably be noisy. Perhaps very.

I would think.

So, if that happens, and someone comes knocking on the door—to see if you’re alright—I think you should be the one to tell them to go the fuck away.

Why?

Because if I do it, they’ll just go get a key.

I guess...okay.

Good girl.

I really hate it when guys say that to me. It’s not the right kind of demeaning; it’s not a compliment.

Is ‘bad girl’ better?

It’s more accurate. Ow.

You doing okay? Feeling alright?

That’s a stupid question, asshole. Oh, shit, I’m sorry.

Don’t be. We’re doing something difficult.

You know, it’s not likely I’m going to get turned on by what you’re doing.

I can dream, can’t I?

Someone else here has foolish dreams.

Right. So why would you do this?

You wanted it.

Yes, but that doesn’t mean you should allow for this. For not just me, for anyone.

It’s…complicated.

I want to know.

I not sure I can explain it. This is a side of you that I’m interested in.

It’s not exactly an acceptable side.

That’s part of why I’m interested.

It does something for you, too.

Yes. Something I hate about myself. I don’t want to say I deserve it, but I suppose it might appear like I feel that way. It’s not that simple.

I hear that a lot.

Oh, you do, do you.

I get to talk to a lot of people. Your kind of people.

‘My kind;’ fuck. So, how many of my kind do this for you?

None.

Not even, you know, her?

No. Especially not her.

Something we have in common.

Oh?

He won’t do this for me, to me, either.

That’s how we got here, isn’t it.

###

FUCK, THAT hurts! God! I wish I could scream!

So go ahead.

Thank you!

###

I SAID go the fuck away! Leave us the hell alone!

You’re going to have to get the door. Yes, like that. This is the third time; it’s the only way they’ll leave us alone.

Jesus god damn fucking Christ. Fine.

Give them an eyeful, at least.

Yeah, fuck you.

Aren’t you glad you can swear now?

“God damn it! There! See? I’m fine, get a good long look, now stay out here in the hall, and put your hands on your own cock, you motherfucking loser, jerk off to whatever you’re hearing us do, and see to it no one else bothers us again, do you fucking understand?”

Jesus fucking Christ!

Remind me to never piss you off.

Shut the fuck up and hit me.

Yes, ma’am.

Bastard.

Bitch.

###

JESUS! AREN’T we there yet?

Nope. Wanna quit?

Motherfucker! Please don’t ask me that! Just get it over with! Use something harder!

Good girl.

Fuck you!

###

JESUS GOD damn mother fucking Christ that god damn fucking hurts please stop aren’t you fucking satisfied you fucking pig god fuck I hate this I hate you I hate me I deserve this don’t you fucking dare stop or I’ll never see you again take it all from me you bastard make it hurt make it hurt make it hurt like it has to god this is hell please oh shit have mercy no don’t please I’m sorry I’m sorry stop stop stop oh god why won’t you fucking stop if this would happen to you you’d know I’m not kidding ow please please please please please I’m begging you oh god damn it no no no more please I’ll do anything for you I’ll suck your cock fuck I’ll lick your ass fuck I’ll do it in public fuck please stop I’ll give you money fuck you can have anything fuck everything take it all from me fuck you fuck me you win I am nothing shit shit shit fuck fuck…fuck…fuck…

###

THAT’S IT. We’re done. Success.

Fuck me.

I will.

Yes! Fucking you.

Fucking you. Fuck me.

Oh, God. Aren’t you going to fuck me in the ass, you fucking fag?

Didn’t think you could stand it, you fucking dyke.

I want you to. We’re not done. Make it hurt.

You’re going to suck my cock afterwards.

God fucking yes.

And lick my ass. You asked. You said. You begged.

No. Yes. You made me. Yes. God. No. Yes.

###

OH, MY god, are you alright?

Yeah, I’m fine.

Why are you crying?

Didn’t you know? This is the secret of my kind.

‘Your kind.’ You’re so full of shit.

No, I mean it. It hurts me, us, as much as it does you. It’s just on a different time scale. Every stripe onto you rips a nail that has been driven into me about how I can’t do this right on out of me with the claw side of the hammer.

Jesus Christ, I’m sorry.

No. This is normal. Usually I hide it; I wanted you to see, to know.

It’s not allowed, is it?

No. No…can you hold me?

This is backwards. You’re supposed to comfort me. Fuck, I don’t know what to say. Thank you. I never knew I needed to see that until now.

I don’t know how you don’t know this. You’re the strong one here. Thank you.

I don’t want to know that. I don’t want to be the strong one; I am so fucking weak.

Are you alright?

We’re going to do this again, aren’t we?

Maybe not today, but yes.

Do you think they’ll care if the sheets are stained with blood?

I don’t fucking care. I’m sure they’ve seen it before.

I could love you, you know.

And I could love you. That’s kinda the point, isn’t it?

Maybe.

###

ARE YOU about ready to go?

Yes. Gotta run. I’ll talk to you later. Master.

Fucking slave slut.

That’s…I…that’s endearing you to me.

You think I don’t know that? Go on. I’ll talk to you later.

Yes, sir.

Bitch.

Monster.

Whore.

Meanie.

Cunt.

<laughter>

 

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

On guns.

Oh, dear, god, yes, thank you, bless you, you are the miracle, I owe you my life all the time, I will do what you want when you want now and forever always, I will willingly give you my body, my time, my money, my home, I am your slave, I will offer you my family, my entire life is yours, it is in your hand, and every second you don't pull the trigger is another precious moment I owe you, thank you, thank you, thank you for sparing my life, please, I will do anything for you, anything at all.

This is what the gun offers to the person who holds the gun. Anyone and everyone in their sight owes this litany to the gun holder, all the time, whether it is listened to or asked for or not, and there are those who say they are immune to it, and that may very well be true at the point in time any of the rest of us think to ask, and we can laugh and have a beer and laugh at those who think the gun holder is a threat to those they love and care about. No, not them. Not the type. And we laugh. Perhaps uneasily, but we laugh; not a lot of choice there: they have a gun.

But the litany of the gun is incessant; the gun's very existence, it's only real purpose, is to force the litany from the person looking up from their knees into the barrel. The whole kill and injure things it can do take a back seat to what it is most often used for: to threaten. It isn't about safety or protection or having a tool. It is a device primarily designed to hand the wielder the ability and the power to be a threat. To be the threat. When the gun fires, it ceases to be a threat, it becomes something that kills or maims; it wreaks loss onto someone who couldn't offer enough. Even if they're shooting at the gun holder. But that's a different situation from what is happening more and more in America these days. No, guns are being fired upon people who are unarmed, who are no real threat to the person with the gun. Something unspeakable has happened to get them to kill for reasons we think we can not possibly understand.

I think, in at least some of the cases, we can. Because all of us have bad things happen to us, and mercifully, for the most part, they aren't bad enough to drive us to kill. That doesn't mean we are immune from that kind of bad; we've just been lucky. And when things start to fall apart for the gun holder's life, whether it be a job problem, or a relationship problem, an argument with someone, something we never find out about, the song gets louder. It never stops. It can't. When enough things fall away, when things get to be so bad that the people end up killing lose their reasons for going on, for living, for caring, the song bellows. The acts of people who are surprise murderers are a surprise to them, too. Murderers who survive murder-suicides tell this often. They couldn't see it coming and when it got there, they couldn't stop it. Law enforcement, the people who have to deal with the aftermath of what guns can do altogether too often all assure us: every last one of us are entirely capable of killing, under the right (or rather, incredibly wrong) circumstances.

This temptation, this call to power, is very strong. My faith in the idea that people will always be able to resist this siren call has left this year. Too many people are dying by a gun; it is such an easy way to kill.

It is too easy. Killing should be hard. Without a gun, for the majority of people, it is. Oh, sure, we can argue that anything can be a weapon and that won't stop someone who is really determined, and no, the unavailability of ease won't stop someone who is hellbent for leather to kill. But if it is more trouble than it is worth, if it takes too long, the opportunity for the madness that we in our modern society don't seem to be able to spot ahead of time begins to increasingly pass as time slips by. Guns account for more murder weapons used than all other weapons combined in America. No justification logic about the number of guns that aren't used for murder countermands this. They make it too easy. Period. There are too many owned by people who shouldn't have them, who have no real reason to own one beyond their pride, their desire for power over others.

The Bushmen, the most primitive society on earth, who use a fairly deadly poison on their hunting arrows, go very far out of their way to take the weapons out of the hands of anyone who is having any kind of altercation for any reason over anything. Remarkably, it is the women who take the weapons from the men. The poison is slow acting, and almost always fatal, and is excruciating to suffer through. The Bushmen community is small, close-knit, and everyone is considered important, and even though fights and disputes happen, no one is worth risking losing and there is no question or argument about the removal from the scene the almost-always-fatal weapons. The Bushmen are actually happier than most of the rest of us, despite what we would call astonishing poverty. They have to hunt to eat and dig in the ground to drink. But still, they laugh a lot; they like each other, and manage to get along better than most of do in our more "advanced" cultures.

This is not happening in America. We're too busy, too rushed, have too many of our own problems to be concerned with anyone else. There are so many of us, too many for us to expend our energies toward, and eventually, people come to be considered expendable, not worth our time, we can do without people who don't agree with us, they are exhausting, don't bother us, that's too hard, and if it that means some have to go so far to stay out of our way as to have have to die, that's okay, we can find a way to distract ourselves from that idea and we do. We're all going to die anyway. No reason to really care about people we don't care about.

We've lost something in there.

In America, the stance of gun ownership has become more like a cult, a religion, and the phrase "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" is a mantra that is a misquote of Charlton Heston when he was the head of the NRA, a group that doesn't even qualify as a non-profit organization, a group that primarily concerns itself with extending weapons sales for weapons manufacturers. Their most recent response to a national atrocity came down to "more guns"; even they acknowledged that. It was a sales pitch.

That line about hands is filled with arrogance and pride and has become core to current extreme gun advocates. The understanding of that phrase is actually a reversal from what it actually says: people who shout it seem to understand it more along the lines of anyone who attempts to take the gun will be killed for trying it. Which means that the gun owner is unwilling to relinquish the power the gun offers them under any circumstances. They aren't willing to die for their gun, they're willing to kill for it. If power corrupts, this is the absolute corruption of absolute power. It is a life and death matter, not one of safety or security or rights or preserving any notion from a couple centuries ago about the idea that the government could not afford a standing army and they were going to count on the citizenry to preserve the nation. The power the gun offers has become more important to the gun holder than anyone he or she loves; god save those fools for attempting to take this kind of power from the gun holder. Good thing ignorant fools are expendable and replaceable, no matter who they are: crazy-ass liberals, strangers, friends, family, if necessary.

Gun owners have reiterated to me, over and over, every time they chant the line, that they are willing to kill to keep the power. Then they try to laugh and say let's have a beer, come on, don't be an asshole, there's no way I'll ever kill anyone, ha ha, I'm not a threat, I'm not in the demographic of killers, you should be thankful people like me are keeping you and your rights protected, god you are so stupid for not seeing it my way because I am not giving up my gun, not for anything, and don't bring it up again, it's god damn unpatriotic. Especially not for you, no matter what, no matter what kind of threat you feel from it, asshole. Go away.

So, if the guns are so important, so safe, so sane, I would wonder why it is that gun owners don't open carry into their jobs, on review days, when they know they are going to get a bad review. How many bosses would feel safe reprimanding an employee who has a gun on their hip? The very presence of the gun would demand the litany from the boss. Seems just wearing a gun would get one promoted with good raises all the time, and won't we all get along better? Does carrying the gun into church make the other worshippers safer? How about to restaurants? Movie theaters? If the gun is nothing more than a tool, and a symbol of freedom and democracy and the American way/dream/whatever, then everyone who doesn't have a gun should feel perfectly safe with the responsible gun owner, the private citizen, who is only showing off their power to all because they have it under perfect complete benevolent control all the time, right?

When I see a private citizen open carrying, I not feel any sense of safe. The person with the gun is, regardless of their real disposition, making it clear that they are going to get their way no matter what, and they always appear to be incredibly pissed off, even if they are smiling and laughing. The gun is an angry thing. The concealed weapon carriers are no better or different, they are just harder to spot. They still always appear to be deeply suspicious of all the unarmed people around them, and not seeing the weapon does not make me feel any safer.

Gun owners can, at times, be extraordinarily arrogant and hypocritical: this power cannot tempt me, I am above it. Only bad people are the problem. Only people who are foolishly terrified that I would ever under any circumstances ever misuse the power ever, I mean, my god, you are all such fools who even think about wanting to take this glorious secret power away from me, you, all of you are the problem. I couldn't possibly be the problem. I am so strong, so above you all, you need never worry about me. I'm not the type. Now change the subject.

Every murderer has, at some time or another, with, I believe, very, very few exceptions, has uttered this assurance to themselves, to assure themselves and those around them that they are, don't worry, immune to the litany of the gun. And they can't see when they are mirroring the litany: you owe me everything because I have spared your miserable life again, today even, and whatever you do, don't piss me off. I have a gun. Too late.

Weapons do not make peace. Trust makes peace. And trust isn't earned, it's given. Guns are an attempt to take trust, by force, no matter what. And all they offer is the opportunity for the target to give absolutely everything to the wielder and that will eventually not be enough, and the peace the gun holder feels, the joy of getting everything from someone is false, a lie. As soon as the gun gets put down, everything that was gained with it will fall away. Then what? Pick it back up, idiot.

The primitives have it right. There is a time and a place to have a weapon, and there is a time to have it taken away. The problems with the killings has not been with the gun, nor have they been that an individual had a problem they couldn't get through. The problem is that when the crisis arose, they were alone with a banshee that screamed a solution that would re-empower them, save them, and by god they would not give it up because that was all they had left.

Guns are dangerous. Those who own them are not safer with them, they are putting themselves at risk with them, the risk that they would at some point not be able to resist what they offer. And while that sounds extreme, far reaching, and an outrageous exaggeration, no, you don't get it, you don't understand, asshole, god, you are so stupid, it's not that simple, there have been altogether too many instances of those who could not do so to write this idea off as ridiculous. The solutions of throw those hopeless people away cannot work; sooner or later, our strength fails us all. Because that is the core to all the spectacular uses we've been suffering through. It is a failure of philosophy, of resolve, of our ability to resist a temptation we have thrown ourselves in front of.

Murderers and criminals do not take lives because they are happy. Only the incredibly psychopathic and sociopathically insane do that. Looking for the signs of those sick people in those around us will not often enough thwart what has been happening. The madness that has been overwhelming us is not in there. We're looking for the wrong problems.

The problem is that we are alone at the wrong times. Alone with monsters. Monsters that make outrageous promises, that won't shut up.

Have your guns. Use them for good. There is no question, shooting a weapon is fun. But when the time comes you have to have them taken away from you, give them to the person who loves you. If you don't have such a person, if you do not have such people, you should not have a weapon that demands you demand the litany from everyone you know. You're not safe. If you proudly proclaim Mr. Heston's propogandized slogan, you are already under the spell. If you can't hand your gun to someone who loves you, someone who's afraid of what you might, at an impossible moment, do with it, then you are at risk of killing them. And if you can't see that, they are as good as dead already.

There's some laughter that has to happen, laughter without any kind of threat anywhere near it. There isn't any kind of one-button solution. We need to be involved enough with each other to see something might happen, and we need to trust each other enough to give up our defenses, our offensive systems. Because that is the choice: we either have to love and care for and trust each other enough to lower our barriers and believe we will be alright, or we have to kill each other. There is no other choice; guns afford us no other option, and they have such an easy one they want to tell us about.