The alarm clock buzzes loudly, waking me up from an amazing dream where I was getting fucked senseless by Paul Rudd in a helicopter, hovering over Hollywood. Getting some great action in an action movie. I wipe the sleep from my eyes, reluctantly returning to my broke loveless thirty-something life in Pasadena. I'm a "proud journalist" in the dying newspaper industry, living in a small dumpy apartment with an uber-annoying environmental lawyer roommate. Paper straws, my ass!
The last nine months have been pretty weird for me. I've been seeing lots of ghosts of people who just died moments before in a distant location. Nobody else is able to see them. Those amusing spirits have been giving me lots of life advice before I send them to heaven (or hell?) by writing their obituaries and publishing them in The SoCal Independent. The novelty has worn off, and now it's just fucking creepy.
Edward is frying a vegetarian curry jalapeno sausage in the kitchen. The disgusting aroma pushes me out of bed.
"Good morning, Nell," my roommate says flatly as I walk through the living room toward the bathroom.
"What's so good about it?" I mutter. "I'm gonna take a shower while you eat that smelly crap."
"This is a lot healthier than the crap you eat. By the way, remember to drape your towels perfectly flat on the drying rack after you use them. Even the smallest fold can breed millions of mildew cells."
"Okay, Edward," I reply flatly.
"And remember to rinse all the soap scum off the shower curtain and the bathtub. Leaving that behind is like hanging a giant welcome sign for nasty microbes."
"Okay, Edward."
"And when you shave your legs over the tub, please don't leave any little hairs lying around."
"That rule should also apply to you, Mister Manscaper. Dozens of curly brown pubes have escaped your neat-freak attention."
"Fine, whatever. Don't take too long in the shower, and don't turn the heat on too high. That's not financially responsible or eco-friendly."
"
Jawohl, mein fuhrer. Sieg hiel
!" I reply sarcastically with a nazi salute. He groans as I close the bathroom door.
I get naked and admire my naked BBW latina body in the mirror. I'm cute in a girl-next-door kind of way, so why can't I find a steady boyfriend? Well . . . I'm sure my perpetual bitchiness has something to do with it.
I turn on the shower, nice and hot. This is my favorite guilty pleasure, so I sure as hell won't let Edward take it away from me, no matter how much that passive-aggressive eco-freak bitches and moans about "climate change." The steaming water hits my goose-bumpy flesh, and I moan pleasantly. I close the shower curtain and let it fall all over my soft mocha skin, erasing my problems for a few fleeting minutes. Lathering up my big tits with cheap soap; feeling like Miss California instead of Little Miss Nobody.
I suddenly get a strange feeling that I'm in the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho.
I turn my head slowly to the right, and see the silhouette of a voluptuous woman standing near the closed bathroom door. My pleasure instantly turns to fear. I slowly move my head around the shower curtain, and I see a twenty-something blonde bombshell in a sexy ivory cocktail dress. Ghost number fourteen, apparently. She's the prettiest one I've seen so far, by far. With that curly 1950's hairstyle, bright red lipstick, and white stiletto heels, she looks just like . . .
"Marilyn Monroe?"
"Not quite, Nell," she replies sweetly, sounding almost exactly like that iconic model/singer/actress. "I'm Marilyn X. Monroe."
"Who the hell is Marilyn X. Monroe?"
"I was a porn star, honey."
"Wow. I haven't watched any porn since my college years. That shit rots your brain."
"Fair point," she giggles.
"So . . . I guess you're dead."
"Brilliant deduction, Captain Obvious."
I pull back the shower curtain to get a better look at that deceased celebrity lookalike; revealing my wet soapy full-frontal glory.
"What happened? Did you overdose on sleeping pills, just like the original Norma Jean?"
"Nope. It's a funny story, in a tragi-comic way. It happened while I was on vacation in Paris. A few hours after getting gangbanged on camera by five French hunks."
"
Ooh la la, tres sexy."
"My sentiments exactly. I went back to my hotel room near the Eiffel Tower and had some more fun with a vibrator. However, like a lot of American tourists, I didn't know that the power plugs in Europe are all 240 volts. Much stronger than the American 120."
"So it caught on fire?"
"Yep. My Dildobot 5000 burned to a crisp, and so did I."
"Damn. Why didn't you stop, drop, and roll?"
"I was drunk as a skunk, honey."
"Of course," I sigh wearily, remembering my own drinking problem. "So many porn stars end up dead in a ditch or rotting in jail. Why do people think that industry is 'glamorous?'"
"It ain't glamorous, but the pay is great, and you make lots of interesting friends. With benefits."
I take a deep cleansing breath of steamy air in the bathtub, bracing myself for another freaky day. How much more of this ghost shit can I take before they throw me in the loony bin?
"All right, I know the drill. You'll follow me around town and give me a bunch of advice to improve my shitty life, before I send you to the afterlife by emailing your obituary to the copy editor of the SoCal Independent. Beaming you up like fucking Star Trek."
"Bingo. The other ghosts helped your mind, but I'm gonna help your body. Specifically, your vagina."
"Holy shit," I chortle. "My own private ectoplasmic sex coach."
"At your service. So . . . I heard your job's a joke, you're broke, and your love life's D.O.A."
"Bingo. But my life is not nearly as funny as
Friends,
or any sitcom in 2023."
Marilyn admires my naked body with a sly grin. "A bootylicious Puerto Rican
mamacita
like you can't get any action?"
"Nada.
Zilch. I must have the avian flu, because I've been sending lots of cocks into quarantine."
"Too bad. I hate all these shallow Hollywood guys who only like pencil-thin ladies with no brains. They need an intelligent woman like you, with a little junk in the trunk."
"Ha . . . yeah," I murmur awkwardly, looking down at my flabby body. Meanwhile, Edward knocks on the bathroom door.
"Come on, Nell. Quit talking to yourself and hurry up!" he shouts.
"Get a life, Edzo!" I snap back.
"Your roommate is a total prick," Marilyn remarks.
"Tell me about it."
"I know everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask. I also know that you've never had an orgasm."
"What?
No way. I've had plenty of orgasms."
"No, honey. You've ejaculated lots of times, but you've never had an earth-shattering
orgasm.
Ejaculation is purely physical, but an orgasm is . . .
transcendent."
"I guess you're right. I've always been too tired, too worried, or too drunk."
Marilyn X steps closer to the shower. The steam goes right through her ectoplasmic spirit-form, just like the ghosts in
Ghosts
.
"Show me how you masturbate, Miss Serrano."
"Are you fucking serious? Is this some kind of warped supernatural porn parody?"
"Come on, Nell-Nell. I can improve your sex life by leaps and bounds, but we have to start with the basics."
"All right, all right. You got more action than the other Marilyn Monroe, who got more dick than Paris Hilton. So you're probably a good teacher."
I slowly move my right hand toward my pussy, laughing at the absurdity of the situation. Marilyn smiles reassuringly with those amazing red lips, pearly white teeth, and sharply arched eyebrows. I masturbate every morning in the shower, but the current situation is awkward as fuck. Her old-school centerfold beauty lowers my inhibitions. Before I know it, I'm jacking my clit fast and hard, as per usual, while moaning softly.
"Damn, girl, no wonder you never had a real orgasm. You gotta slow down, and move in little circles instead of up and down. Picture a classy romance novel to get your mind away from this dumpy apartment. And put your fingers right above your clitoris instead of right on it. That stimulates more nerve endings."
I follow her advice, working the fleshy hood above my clit nice and slow while picturing
Hot Dixie Summer
, a harlequin romance novel I read when I was an English major at UCLA. A sultry tale about a blonde southern belle who falls madly in love with a hunky horse trainer. A strong surge of pleasure washes over my entire body. My knees literally buckle in the bathtub. I lean back against the tile wall, groaning gutturally.
"Oh my god, Marilyn X. Where have you been all my life?"
"I've been getting fucked on camera for tons of cash, while you've been working for a newspaper that nobody under fifty gives a shit about."
I keep working my clit, feeling so good while gazing at that amazing bottle-blonde in a fabulous 50's dress.
"Good girl, owning your body and taking control of your pleasure," Marilyn murmurs while gazing deep into my soul. "You don't need a man to be happy. In fact, you don't need a man for
anything.
Well . . . you need one to make a baby. But that's criminally overrated."
I stick two fingers deep in my pussy while rubbing my clit with the other hand. My mind has gone south for the duration; hypnotized by an alluring ghost. I've never felt so alive, floating on cloud nine in the misty bathroom. No wonder JFK fell so hard for that other crazy blonde bimbo.
"By the way, Nell . . . that shower wand has a massage option."
"It
does?
Oh my god, why haven't I noticed that for the past nine months?"
"You were too busy whining about everything to notice
anything
."
I take the shower wand off the overhead clamp, turn the dial to the strongest massage setting, and park that plastic disc right on my twat. It feels like my own private Niagara Falls, blowing my mind with aquaphile splendor.