She had spent her whole life suppressing the bizarre thoughts that crept into her mind. Images of acts and wants that she was sure indicated a mental as well as a moral sickness. Sometimes the need was so great and the effort to banish it from her mind left her weak and helpless. Then one day she stumbled onto a web site that changed her life.
What a revelation, not only were there people actively engaging in the bizarre acts she thought only existed in her mind, but there were even more extreme situations that she had never dreamed of. The joy of finding out she was not alone in her dreams did have another disconcerting thought though. She had yet to discover an act, no matter how depraved, that didn't arouse her.
In a totally different aspect, she went from the bizarre to the ridiculous. Here she was, standing in the kitchen carving a pumpkin. She couldn't remember how many years it had been since she had a Jack-O-Lantern, yet here she was in the process of making one. She didn't remember walking through the produce aisle and picking up the small pumpkin, it just materialized in her basket. Arriving home, she ignored all the other items she had bought, and went immediately to the pumpkin.
She remembered placing it on the counter and opening the top to remove the seeds. That was it, something happened, a memory loss that took her out of herself for an undetermined amount of time. Now she was standing nude, looking at the hollowed out shell and trying to equate it to the feeling in her abdomen. Her uterus was feeling empty, not that it ever had anything in it, and just that something had invaded it and scraped it clean. The cervix felt dilated, as if it was that time in the cycle when she was fertile and available for impregnating. Having just finished her menstrual cycle, she knew that was not the case. Yet, the strange feeling of emptiness was hard to ignore; and the fact that it coincided with the cleaning of the pumpkin amplified it.
Now it was time to carve the face. She had an old filleting knife, one that had been in the family for decades. It had been sharpened so many times it looked more like a very thin stiletto than a knife. Holding the pumpkin with her left hand, she placed the tip of the knife against the area needing carving for the right eye, and pushed, barely enough to break the skin, wanting to be sure she had the placement properly. A jolt of pain shot through her right nipple. It was as if she had inflicted the wound on herself. This was unbelievable; the pain was intense, yet it aroused her. She had devoured stories of pain and particularly piercing, yet knew she would never succumb to that act.