Lust and Flesh in Alaska
3,600 words
15 minutes reading time
The cabin is small, nine feet wide, and seventeen feet long. The cabin had 'burned out many years before he bought the land it was on. A divorce followed a few years later for reasons typical in America at the time and unimportant to this experience since it was a few years before this occurred.
WD (Dale) installed cinder blocks on four-foot-deep footings so that the building could be expanded and the foundation be strong enough to bear the additional weight of the materials for the addition. WD rebuilt the floor and the roof. Also, had replaced the stumps of old trees left in place when the cabin was built. The stumps had rotted and crumbled, allowing the cabin to tilt on its axis, and when he bought it, it didn't look salvageable.
Single, he lived alone as an independent businessman, running a one-man home remodeling and repair company taking out a respectable living, and paying bills on time. He did not feel any financial pressure that altered his idea of excellence and protection of the business and personal reputation.
He allowed for one deep soul-rewarding pleasure: retreats to the cabin for world-class fishing around that part of the state. His angling success had been proven, having the salmon grand slam, the trout grand slam, and the flatfish grand slam. Dale had not completed the hunting grand slams before he had an accident while hunting Mountain Goats in the Southeast Alaska. Now he is relegated to either a mouse or caribou for the freezer.
He sat at the table for two he had purloined for the cabin. In front of him, there was a large picture window with a view to the west of the active volcano, Mt. Iliamna, across Cook Inlet. It was a smoking giant about two hundred miles, maybe less to the west.
Looking through the hunting permit application form, he selected caribou for the fall hunt, registered for the Gunsight Region east of Anchorage, folded the application, put an upside-down stamp on it, and sealed the envelope. He slipped on his Viet Nam combat boots and began the trek of three hundred yards to the Ninilchik North Bar, where there was a mail dropbox. Leaving his permit application, he sat on the bench to soak in the sun.
He had dropped his coffee cup in the gravel, shattering the handle and splashing his legs with the tepid drink. He was picking up the pieces when a voice asked, "Would you want a paper towel by chance there, mister?"
Noticing that he wasn't alone for the first time, he looked up and smiled into the sun's glare, unable to clearly see the person speaking. He replied, "Yes, if you have one, please."
A thin white hand and arm poked from the glare, and he wiped the coffee off both legs and shoes. He remembered to say, "Thank you, perfect timing."
The body moved sideways to approach his bench so that the glare released the body to reveal the side view of a fantastic female shape. The color of the body was in sharp contrast to the sunlight, and Dale thought, 'Damn, what a set of tits!' Her blouse was black, and her shorts, Duke's, were a rich, bright mango and seemed to fit tightly.
His eyes raked the image released from the glare, and when they swept upward, he could see that this body had not been exposed to very much sun because her skin was almost transparent, it was so white. The bumps of her butt and her breasts were classic, the size proportional, and her cups full.
Gerry's makeup appeared washed out and minimal; however, as Dale's pupils returned to normal after looking into the glare, he changed his opinion about that. She was heavily made up around her eyes and wore the Chinese Red lipstick that had become popular among her age group. Some had begun to call it the 'Cum Fukk Me Red' tint.
His appraisal was felt and observed, requiring some comment, but she was too stoned to think of the right comment and blurted out, "Where are you staying, mister?"
Giggling at the question, he pointed toward his cabin and replied, "Exactly as far as you would want to stagger with me after a drink. Interested in a drink? By the way, I am Dale; who might you be?"
"Gerry."
"Thanks for the paper towel. How'd you happen to have one paper towel at the moment I needed one?"
"Devine intervention, I think." She replied with a huge smile.
"I thought only people like Mother Theresa or the rich and famous were involved in the Devine."
"Well, how do you know I am neither rich nor famous?"
"In my life, you are famous; not too sure I can vouch for rich, yet."
"Dale, you are unique in an interesting way. Do you usually throw the conversation back to being about the other person?"
"Hmm, I suspect I do."
"Well then, Dale, let's get that drink you offer."
"If we were anywhere but Ninilchik, I would ask your age and then want to see proof. Your attitude is so fresh you appear to be a thirteen-year-old girl practicing being charming and alluring."
"However, I have a daughter, so I feel radically different about your innocence than if I was thinking of my daughter the way I am thinking of and seeing you."
"I am twenty-three, single, rich, famous, and looking forward to the drink, Dale. Let's get the day started. Yeah, I want a Salty Dog, a double, maybe two doubles if it is happy hour. Okay?"
"A lady ready to party, Gerry?"