Bonus story time, lebbis and gents! This gut-tickler of an idea struck me just recently, and was far too much fun to resist. It'll be very different from my normal material. This is my first in the Humor category. Even though I include a bit of humor in most stories, it doesn't dominate the main action. My four non-numbered "bonus" stories to this point (both "Redefining Punishment"s and both "Voxe"s) were written in first-person. I rather like that distinction, and want to keep it up.
*Ahem!*
Uh, you know what I mean. Do please enjoy, and of course, as with these or the regular Sagas, feedback's welcomed, valued and appreciated.
Additional notes: this story is set in the year 2005. And
please observe
the multiple categories listed below. I'm submitting this under Humor, but these others are just as accurate in description.
Categories:
humor/satire
,
lesbian
,
non-human
,
toys/masturbation
*****
Saturday, June 25th, 2005, 11:36 p.m.
I blew out disconcerted breath as I left the club and went home. It had been an okay night, but hardly great.
I took the stage for my slot, and did my half-hour set. I would've preferred it later in the eveningāas the crowd got drunkerābut it wasn't up to me. I suppose I did...all
right
, but...admittedly, I'm my own harshest critic. This is a good thing and a bad thing. You have confidenceāespecially after getting your first laughsābut it's shaky. But at the same time, you make yourself work harder. Comedy's not always pretty, folks, and it's sure as fuck not easy.
There were few girl comics tonight, and no lesbians at all other than me. This should've given me an edge, and probably did, but I still felt I could've done better. I was having sort of an off night with my timing and delivery, two musts in this racket. Making people laugh is my life's blood and the air I breathe, but dammit, I
know
how hard a business this is to break into. For anybody. I thought about it over and over as I drove home. There's a good deal more that goes into this craft than your average non-comedian realizes.
The girls'll complain, saying, "Oh, comedy's
so
much harder as a woman." And to a certain extent, I see their point. The world's used to laughing at dudes and making fun of them, so they do pretty well getting up there and just putting themselves down. And the girlsāmyself includedādo that too; it's a good way to make friends with the audience and sway them to your side. But all the straight girls seem to know how to do's verbally shit on men. Y'know, not literally. Unless they pay an extra fifty.
The fact of the matter is, comedy's hard for everybody. Doesn't matter: guy, girl, black, white, gay, straight, whoever you are. A fucking spotlight on your face, sandwiched between a brick wall and a hundred people you don't know, talking funny into an electric stick and just praying to God the crowd's drunk enough, horny enough or with you enough to get it...yeah,
anyone
can do that. Change
one
word in your routine, or time it half a second the wrong way, and the whole thing can go down the shitter.
We may still be something of a novelty, but it's not like the world's oblivious to female comics, or even lesbian ones. We've had Lily (Tomlin) since the late '60s. Suzy Westenhoefer came along about a decade ago, and as everyone knows, Ellen famously came out eight years back. A few others've made it semi-big, and a lotta small-timers like me're still clawing our way up. Us gay chicks occupy a decent percentage of female comedy, and I'm pretty proud of it. So naturally, I wanna kick in my part as honorary member of the Lesbian Slayers. "We'll
kill
ya! We'll knock ya
dead!
Die
laughing at our gayness, motherfuckers!"
Lately, though...I dunno, I guess I've been feeling uninspired. Material-wise. As a comic, you look at things through a different lens. You all know the mantra: "funny 'cause it's true." So you basically have to take what's going on in the worldāor your own lifeāand mold it in an ironic way that the crowd finds amusing and can relate to. OH, oh, yeah, and then have the balls to get on up there and actually do it. I'm speaking metaphorically, of course; I don't have actual balls...or
do
I, ladies? Only one way to find out!
I got home, flipped on the tube and booted up my PC. I immediately hopped online, as I've done every day since my parents got AOL ten years ago. I fucking
love
the Internet. It's been with us a full decade now, and it's my resource for
every
-goddamn-thing. I don't use AOL anymore, though; I use something new called Mozzarella Firefox. Works great, but makes me hungry as hell.
Okay, I have a confession to make. When I got my tiny little studio apartment with my own computer, IP and connection, it was an em
barrassing
ly short time before I started looking for porn. Hey, c'mon, don't judge me; I'm only human. I've got needs like anyone else...burning, yearning, churning, always fucking returning needs. And there's actually some decent lesbian porn out there...well, by my standards. Sure, some of it sucks. But some of this stuff you can't get in video stores, which I guess is the point. Some of these sites want you to subscribe, and pay a monthly charge on your credit card. And even if they are discreet, I somehow doubt I'd find it pleasant to open my Visa bill and see "$29.95: Muff-Munchers-dot-com" staring back at me month after month.
Besides, I can't afford it. I work at fucking Costco during the day, and make only a fraction of that at the clubs at night. The club owners haven't let me go yet though, that's a good thing. At least I still have a steady gig. But my material's gonna go stale eventually, and if I don't come up with some good new stuff, I might actually have to get a "real" career.
It comes easy to some comedians, I thought, aimlessly browsing. They just watch TV or go about their day and down anything funny that happens. I, li'l ol' Sharon Lessler, am no comedy prodigy. I've gotta work at it, and stay on top of current events to do topical humor, a fair chunk of my act. That's one of the reasons the Internet's my "wife" at the moment. I spend more time with her than anyone. She's the perfect mate! She's always there for me, she's never in a shitty mood, she's not demanding, she doesn't care how much I drink, she doesn't mind if I bring home other chicksā
or
other computers, for that matterāshe knows everything, she never lies or cheats on me, and she's always D.T.F. Well, again, not literally.
I clicked and navigated through the Minnesota Daily, looking for bits and things to use as puzzle pieces for my routines. Speaking of puzzles, something I hadn't seen before caught my eye.
"What the hell is this?...'Sudoku: the brand-new Japanese number craze'?...'Place the numbers 1 through 9 in the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box...'
"Oh my God, I can't figure that shit out; that is fucking insane. Heh! Craze, my
ass
; no
way
that'll ever catch on."
I went on, finally deciding I was done with the paper's site. Not sure where to go next, I took a break and went to grab something to munch on. Unfortunately, I couldn't munch anyone's muff at the moment, including my own. If I could bend
that
way, life would take a
whole
new path. If comedy didn't work out, maybe I could be a contortionist, eat my own pussy, and have it done
right
for once.
I returned from the kitchen-slash-fridge to the living-slash-dining-slash-computer-slash-office-slash-study-slash-everything-fucking-else room, to see something bizarre on the TV screen. Something sex-related. Knowing sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off it, I sat and curiously tuned in. A rather hot-sounding female voice was narrating the infomercial-looking program, as equally sexy, playful music filled the background.
"Looking for a fun and kinky way to spice up your digital sex life?" she asked.
"Yes," I promptly replied.
"Then try Orgyware!" she announced. "The first fully interactive computer software to create your own three-dimensional playmates, who'll do, say and be
anything
you like!"
"Okay, lady, that's a stupid name. I can think of half a dozen names probably better than that. It
is
an interesting idea, though."
"With Orgyware, you can shape and design your benefitted friends to your libido's con
tent
," the voice purred. "Choose from any
number
of participants, to build your own group of fully-functional CGI sex buddies. With top-of-the-line text-to-speech capabilities, the most sensual voices, and a complete experience that'll
blow
you a
way
."
Okay, I won't lie: I hadn't gotten laid in a while, and she was starting to turn me on. I felt my pussy wake up and start paying attention. The next thing my screen showed me was a smoking-hot babe in a translucent periwinkle dress. She spoke.
"Hi. I'm Kimberly. And believe it or not, I'm completely virtual."
My eyebrows arched in a trifle of surprise.
"Honestly, I'm not sure I
do
believe ya, Kim; you look a little too good."
More lasses appeared on the screen around Kimberly.
Whoa
. Yeah, I'll be truthful about it, this was more impressive than it looked at first.
These
were virtual girls? They looked...re
mark
ably real.
They could be actresses