Author's note:
I believe this whimsical tale best fits the category of Magical Realism; alas, although such a category exists in the broader world of literary genres, Magical Realism is not a choice available for submissions at Literotica. I have chosen to place this story in the Humor & Satire category, as I am hoping the dear reader will find the absurd and fantastical events embedded within the otherwise (somewhat) plausible erotic storyline to be amusing. I have placed some tongue-in-cheek dialogue and lighthearted circumstances to further embellish the humorous tilt to the narrative; albeit, dry humor. After all, dry humor is what the dear reader might rightly expect of a tale set in the arid lands of the American Southwest.
If I missed the mark with my intention of writing a humorous and erotic tale, then the joke is on me for mistakenly believing I was amusing - or erotic.
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I rolled off my chair and collapsed on the linoleum floor, convulsing with laughter.
Loria watched me hit the floor, she was mid-sip in her umpteenth glass of merlot, and in her empathetic bemusement, she inhaled her wine instead of swallowing; causing her to spew a mouthful across the tablecloth, still laughing between rasping hacks.
As my best friend sputtered on her wine and her Freudian slip; I found her spasmodic condition all the more hilarious. I shrieked, hyperventilating in a failed effort to control myself.
Loria recovered enough to admonish me with her patented classroom phrase, "Chill thyself! Jeez Meredith, you're even worse than a class of eight graders on the last day of school. Chill thyself woman!"
I crawled back into my seat at the table, having managed to return to a more suitable mild chuckle from my uncontrolled laughter of a moment earlier. "Tell me girl, what were you really thinking? Wine loosens lips - and hips? Is that what I'm hearing?"
Loria threw her head back in a merlot induced set of giggles at my prodding question. "Wine does funny things to my tongue sometimes. I was just looking at his picture and I tried to suggest we might want to check out his adventure tour; I honestly tried to say 'Pharr Flung', but it just came out 'well hung'."
We were at the mercy of the merlot and couldn't help letting out a couple more whoops after Loria's only half-embarrassed explanation of her risqué slip-of-the-tongue. We chased our merry outburst with a few more sips from the stemware. "Tell me girl, look me in the eye - you were looking at his shorts when you said that, weren't you?"
"OK. But so were you! I know you Meredith. I know you all too well."
I teased Loria, "Maybe the wine is helping you see things; things that you're hoping to see. Huh?"
"What about you Meredith? Take a swig, then look at him. Maybe this vintage gives me x-ray vision. I can see through his pants, I swear. Tell me you don't see what I see - tell me the truth."
"All right Loria, I'll give you that there is an interesting shadow at play right were your eyes are glued, but perhaps the wine is playing tricks with you. It could just be folds in the fabric."
"Yes! And what would make fabric fold like that?"
"You have a point there," I admitted.
"Look! And so does he! Look right there!" Loria failed to choke back her annoying nasal snickers as she made her emphatic argument. She was holding the back of her hand to her lips and gesturing at the laptop screen with her other hand waving her almost empty glass.
I straightened to answer my best friend's question, "I'm just playing devil's advocate. You know what I really think?"
Loria turned down the corners of her mouth in a skeptical challenge and threw her hand out, palm up, in a gesture asking for my theory, "What do you really think Meredith?"
"That dude's got a big hard-on."
Loria exploded with a grand "Hah!" And then slapper both hands smack down on the table top and laughed hard with her face in the wine stain which she had made at the start of this whole episode. "Jeez! I love the last day of school and I love to unwind with the wine after our school year. And I love planning our summer fling together, way too much fun."
"Serious Mer, we haven't been to the American Southwest yet. I think it could be fun. Are you up for trying Pharr Flung Adventures? The website advertises small group tours of out-of-the-way and exotic locations in the Desert Southwest? I think it'd be a great way to spend our annual summer fling this year -- and not only for the reason I just happened upon when looking at picture of our personal guide."
"Did you say 'erotic' locations?" I teased my silly girlfriend.
"Stop!" I said exotic locations... Didn't I? Did I say erotic by mistake? Mer, you know what I meant." Loria started her giggling all over again.
"Indeed, I know very well what you meant. You're such a naughty girl, Loria.Yeah, I could be up for this fling. But I'll tell you what, this dude's 'up' for some summer flings himself, by the looks of it. And pictures don't lie." We drained that bottle and laughed ourselves silly with the idea of signing on with Vance Pharr because Loria thought his tour was advertised as a well-hung tour; a tour of out-of-the-way erotic locations.
School was out for the summer. This would be our fifth year to plan our 'fling'. Traditionally, we start the summer of freedom with a late afternoon bottle of wine, we order out for dinner; then another bottle to pair with the taste of summer's freedom. Loria and I always have great fun together, especially right after we're finished with another year in the classroom.
We ended up enjoying ourselves too much that first evening to be able to do any serious planning for our summer fling. As sometimes happens, I slept on Loria's couch rather than trying to drive home with so much fun in my system. It was the wine. It was the fun of laughing ourselves silly. It was the sexual innuendo repartee. It was the sudden decompression and the exhilaration of freedom after turning in our grades and walking out of the school office. Hell, it was everything all mixed together and a good case of hormones thrown in to rev up my imagination after looking at Vance Pharr and his Pharr Flung Adventure website. The merlot would make a girl sleep, but Vance could make a girl dream, sweet and naughty dreams.
I awoke o'dark-thirty because I needed to pee. I threw the light blanket off and swung my feet to the floor and shuffled my way, eyes half open, to the guest bath. I backed onto the seat to get some relief from my floating teeth and just before I reached behind to flush, I heard a faint sound. I paused. I shed my sleepiness to concentrate on what I was hearing. Yes, I knew that sound coming through the thin wall from Loria's bedroom; it was the high-frequency hum of Mr. Buzzy doing his job (at least that's his name at my place). It seems that the wine, the intriguing photo of Vance and thoughts of our summer fling had planted the seeds of a sweet and naughty dream in Loria's horny imagination just as it had done in mine. Loria and I are so much alike. I decided not to flush; fearing the sound might alert her to my awakened and listening presence. I'd feel bad if I interrupted my best friend's late night fantasy fun. I spared her the embarrassment of my knowledge and slipped back to my spot on the couch to indulge myself in a sweet and naughty fantasy of my own.