Hello, Literotica Reader:
Normally I am one to prefer imagining the sensations delivered at the hands of a gentle, erotic, teasing woman or man. It also excites me to imagine being restrained, open and vulnerable. But rally just vulnerable to sweet pleasure...not pain. Recently, I had the misfortune of sticking my hand under a part of a gate and startled a wasp that was minding its own business there. The immediate sensation on my finger was that of a burning cigarette tip. I pulled my hand back as the disoriented creature flew off. The pain was not fun and was the first sting I had experienced in years. Anyway, for some reason, I decided to research stings and an article on the bullet ant caught my attention. My imagination took me a step further and I decided to venture for the first time into the BDSM realm. I'm not completely comfortable in that realm but was willing to stick my big toe in for a moment (not a finger). The bullet ant is a large South American species that has a stinging venom measured off the pain chart as compared to wasps and bees. Brazilian natives use a mitt with hundreds of these potent ants sewn into the fabric with the stingers aimed inward. The ants are anesthetized and, as a right of passage, young boys are required to wear the mitt of bullet ants on their hand for ten minutes while they revive and begin stinging the flesh of the poor young victim. The pain lasts for about 24 hours and causes uncontrollable shaking of the part of the body affected by the single sting.
I've had one or two ask why I stopped writing. I lead a normal life that no one would ever surmise that I could come up with the scenarios I have in the three earlier stories. They make up my fantasies and it is exciting to share my secret thoughts with others who may share the same desires and fantasies.
I will see about fleshing out the stories I've written with additional chapters and events and, hopefully, take time to start typing away at new ones. Most of the time, when I start typing, the fingers just keep moving around the keyboard without much thought as if the visions are just pouring out from somewhere. I'll see what new visions are in store and share them with you when I can.
Alan
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He never dreamed that this second visit to the jungles of Brazil would have him in such a predicament. Two years ago, when he was 16, he had accompanied his father to this same region. It had been a marvelous, carefree summer adventure. His father, an etymologist, brought Jack along to see what fun a real "bugologist" could have traipsing around the jungle looking for exotic six-legged creatures.
After a few days of tagging along with his dad and those plastic jars full of the day's insect catch, Jack grew tired of his vacation and everything about the jungle...
Except for her.
A ravishing, bronze-skinned teenage goddess. He had been enchanted with her ever since they met two years earlier in the jungle clearing. She had been very shy and almost afraid to speak as they practically collided...he on a short jog after breakfast at his dad's camp and she fleeing something he never was able to comprehend at the time.
After that first meeting, he couldn't erase her from his thoughts. She appeared to be a native of the region, Jack's age with full, soft, shiny black hair that swung beautifully as she moved. Her natural eye brows and fine cheek bones framed what Jack perceived as the most beautiful golden brown eyes he would ever see in this lifetime. Just a few moments is all he had to take all this in and, just as suddenly as she had appeared, was she suddenly frozen with fear, then she was gone.
But the look they exchanged in that moment was a look that formed an instant deep bond. So many emotions flashed through the minds of that boy and that girl in that instant beginning with the startled shock of meeting in the middle of nowhere to the immediate growth of a realization that they knew each other perhaps in a past life or even a future life...then her expression quickly changed to an inexplicable look of fear as she fled back into the forest.
Jack had to find her again. His entire summer trip with Dad was changed from a "bug's life" to the beginning of a new life. She was now part of that life and he was driven to find her. For the next few days Jack returned to the same spot hoping she would be there.
Camp life went on as Jack went through the motions of pleasing his dad on their searches for more exotic insects but Jack couldn't shake the image of that beautiful Brazilian girl. Every morning he would return to the clearing in the forest hoping to see her again but she didn't return and life returned to normal at the camp.
That summer Jack's dad had warned him to reserve the greatest respect for any insect they might encounter as they walked through these rain forests...Jack was admonished to be especially respectful of what Dad called the "bullet ant".
Jack learned that the bullet ant, a native of South America's jungles, was extremely aggressive whose venom sting caused pain that exceeded that caused by any other insect including bees, wasps and other stinging creatures. The Schmidt Pain Index ranked at number 2 what most would consider the most painful sting of a wasp or strong bee sting. Those rose to the level of 2.
Schmidt ranked the sting of the bullet ant at 4+...more than twice the severity and far beyond anything experienced by a human.
If the black, inch-long bullet ant was ever given a chance to sting you, it would feel like a pinpoint of a molten, white-hot glass shard piercing your flesh and spreading the excruciating pain beyond the area of the sting to cause whatever body part that fell victim to shake and tremble uncontrollably in the throes of agony. The pain from one single brief sting of the bullet ant would engulf its victim in unbearable pain for up to 24 hours before gradually diminishing over the days that followed during recovery. Jack's father reached for a book and turned to a page of photos depicting the ant. "Never allow a bullet ant to come in contact with your skin, Jack," his father admonished, "You will regret it and will never forget it."
A few days later, Jack discovered exactly what his dad had warned him about. Jack took a short jog from the campsite one late afternoon. Pausing to catch his breath for a second, he leaned one hand against the trunk of a tree while lifting a foot and reaching down to adjust a sock. Suddenly, Jack felt a slight tickle of a movement on the back of his hand. He looked. On his hand was a huge, black insect that looked like an mammoth ant. It was 50 times larger than a normal black ant. Jack, recognizing the insect as the dreaded bullet ant he had seen in the photograph. Not knowing what to do, Jack panicked and jerked his hand away from the tree carrying the inch-long, thick bullet ant with it. Startled, the ant plunged its stinger into the back of Jack's hand! Instantly Jack's flesh burned with pain that was more intense than any pain he had experienced in his short life. It felt like a drop of molten iron had been poured onto his skin. No pain could ever surpass the pain Jack felt at that moment and the pain grew! It was like a needle had been held in a fire until it was so white hot that it could melt at any moment before plunging deep into his skin. It was as if that molten prick of heat continued to be forged in fire as it embedded itself in Jack's hand. The incredible thing was that the back of Jack's hand had fewer nerve endings than other, more sensitive parts of his body, but Jack's whole body was sucked into agony of this one ant's sting.
Jack screamed and cried out as he ran back toward the camp and his father. Surely Dad would know what to do to relieve the unbelievable pain.
"Jack! I told you to be careful!" His father tried to console him as Jack wept in agony from the pain in his hand. The searing, hot sting had spread to his forearm and Jack could not keep from furiously shaking his hand in any attempt to rid his body of such pain. No human being could be expected to endure the pain caused by the bullet ant. There was no antidote...no treatment that existed to ease the pain that would just have to work itself out over the next 24-hour period.
Finally recovered late the next day, Jack vowed never to put his hand against a tree in Brazil again.
As the days passed and it was almost time to return home to Texas, Jack's thoughts returned to the beautiful girl he had encountered in the forest. It was after midnight when Jack suddenly awakened from a dream. All he could remember was that he was flat on his back looking up into the eyes of the beautiful young girl he had encountered a week earlier. She held his gaze with her own with a look of fear and concern in her eyes. In his dream, Jack tried to console her as tears flowed down her soft cheeks.
Now fully awake, Jack rolled out of his cot and stood at the door to his hut. Through the tall trees that surrounded the camp clearing he could see the cold light of the full moon falling between the leaves. Not sleepy at all and still thinking of the beautiful girl, Jack decided to take a walk. Hopefully, no insects would be lurking to torture him this night. He made his way back to the clearing where he had first met the girl of his dreams. As he approached the clearing he encountered an incredible sight: She was there, in the exact spot they had first met, on a soft bed of blankets she had apparently brought with her to this spot. She lay there on her side in the moonlight facing away from him as he quietly walked toward her. Jack could not believe his good fortune! There she was! Even though he could not see her face he just knew it was she. As Jack walked closer, the girl suddenly turned her head and saw him there. She appeared startled and frightened but, after a moment, recognized Jack and rose up to her knees facing him. She had been weeping but now, a smile grew in her eyes and across her soft, full lips. It was as if Jack heard her voice in his head say, "You! I have been looking for you! I've waited here every night since we met. I have missed you. I need you. I want you."