REUNION
Hansel Gingersnap stopped before the front door of Grandma Nyx's house. He looked around to make sure nobody could see him as pressed the doorbell . Ever since his sister Gretel disappeared, the onus of making these little check-in visits had fallen on his broad, albeit protesting, shoulders.
But he liked to hide his activities at Grandma Nyx's house, as they might be misinterpreted (or even worse, correctly interpreted). His hand shook as he rang the bell (or more-accurately cybernetic tone). After a few seconds, Hansel could hear Grandma Nyx's elderly yet still voluptuous body being loaded into her Danica Patrick mobilized wheelchair. He could hear her riding in circles like Dr. Strangelove on a restless day. She even threw in a few wheelies for good measure.
Grandma Nyx pushed the Ejecto-seat button on the Danica Patrick Chair, which not only catapulted her directly onto the chair of her Acorn Stair Lift, and at the same time opened the front door to let Hansel in.
Hansel watched as Grandma Nyx descended the stairs in a magnificent entrance rivaled only by Trump's golden ride down the elevator in Trump Tower (not to be confused with the golden shower afforded him in Moscow).
Hansel reckoned that the chore of making these visits could be worse. In days of auld they occurred two times a day, seven days a week. But that was before the upgrades to Amazon.com. Now the old biddy had three Denny's square meals a day delivered by drone. If she fell down or had a heart attack, Amazon would immediately deploy a drone that would land directly on her mottled skin and perform CPR, including direct electrical stimulation of her heart, transplants and cardiac catheterizations, not to mention her clit.
Sure the system still had some kinks to be worked out. For one, the Amazon drones would occasionally take the liberty of procuring heart donors by selecting the healthiest person in a two mile radius, extracting the heart, and sewing it into the buyer's circulatory system. There also was a lot of concern centering on the fact that a disproportionate number of the involuntary donors so selected were African American.
Soon Grandma Nyx's body reached the ground floor, and she was lifted into the locked and upright position. "Well, well, lookie at what we got here! if it isn't my second most famous grandchild come to visit me at last. What's been keeping you nigh these four years?"
"Well, I've been away at college, Meemaw. But I'm here now." Hansel said. "I would have been here earlier, but my sister seemed to have your care down to a science. But since she disappeared, I've been elected to do the honors."
"Short end of the straw, eh? Well then let's get cracking. You can start by bringing those deliveries downstairs for me." She nodded toward a pile of Amazon Prime boxes sitting in the corner of the foyer.
"By the way I like your new red riding hood, Granny Nyx," Hansel said. "I swear I've seen that hood before." Just like Gretel's, he thought, but instinctively held his tongue.
"eBay," Grammy Nyx said by way of explanation.
"I also like your new gleaming teeth. Your sharpened incisors are way Goth, just like all the kids are wearing these days.
"Compliments of Invisalign," the rejuvenated crone said. "All the better to eat you with!" Granny Nyx whispered, pointedly lowering her gaze to Hansel's crotch. "If you know what I mean."
Hansel's tool grew to rival the woodsman's axe leaning in the corner of Grammy Nyx's cottage.
"Granny, with your kohl-darkened eyes, you could be a 22-year-old," he told the beautiful hag. "OK Grandma Nyx, I'll get right on it." Hansel picked up seven boxes of something called 'Granny Lube'. He wasn't sure he wanted to know what it was used for, but he could guess. A shudder went down his spine. To still his mind, he quietly chanted the three refuges:
"I take my refuge in Alexa.
"I take my refuge in the Prime.
"I take my refuge in Jeff Bezos.
The peace was soon broken by the raspy voice of Grandma Nyx. "Hansie, darling, could you be an angel and open that plastic one? I swear I think that childproofing should be called harridan-proofing. Don't you agree?"
Hansel picked up a device that resembled a hi-tech water pistol, save for its phallic barrel. He had a pretty good idea what its purpose was. There were three speed settings: massage, hyper-pump, and ultra-ream. He struggled with the child-proof and consumer-proof hard plastic cover that protected seemingly every technical device that was manufactured these days.
"Let me help you with that," Granny Nyx said. Give it over here, Hansie," she said, reaching out with her left hand.
Hansel forked it over, and Granny Nyx spoke into the air. "Alexa, Dr. Scholl me." A Dr. Scholl's kiosk materialized at the foot of the stairs. Probably just self-assembling nanobots, Hansel supposed. Granny Nyx gingerly stepped out of the Acorn Stair Lift onto the Scholl footpads. Not only did the kiosk spit out and install new rubber soles for Granny's feet, but it also injected a titanium endoskeleton that grew like vines around her existing bones, reinforcing them so that she could bench press a semi with one arm. This is why 90 is the rapidly becoming the new 22, Hansel supposed. Granny Nyx then used her new titanium fangs to tear through the plastic casing off the Squirtmaster 500 as though it was made of paper or human flesh). She slapped the batteries into the Squirtmaster into as though they were a new clip in an assault rifle.
She held the Squirtmaster 500 against her ear and fired it up in ultra-ream mode, She seemed transfixed as though she were being carried aloft into heaven itself by the sweet music of the super-dildo.
"Hansie, where are my manners? You're my only grandson, and this is the first day I have seen you in five years, and here I am drilling my own coochie like a some haggard burned-out 90-year-old whore. Here, let me treat you to a cup of my famous horny goat weed tea. I've got some on the burner now.
Granny walked over to the cupboard, and selected two Ming-dynasty tea cups, which she placed on the small table sitting in the kitchen . Nyx and Hansel sat down at the table, and Nyx poured the hot concoction into the aforementioned teacups. Despite the general agility of her movements, when Nyx stood up to replace the teapot on the stove, she stumbled against the table, spilling the hot liquid directly onto Hansel's crotch.
Granny Nyx quickly placed her hand on her long-lost grandson's lap in an effort to cheer up his semi-boiled genitalia.
"I'm sorry. Gramma Nyx. I know that those cups must have been 500-year old Ming-dynasty porcelain."
"Ah, those were mere trinkets. At most 475 years old But what about these precious family jewels? They are more important than mere porcelain.
She reached down to cup said orbs, which jumped nearer to launch position. She held them in her right hand and juggled them like a tennis player deciding which ball to use on match point at Wimbledon.
"Well, I guess the family genetic aspirations are in very good hands, or should I say conjones. The family line is not going to die out anytime soon. No siree. I'll bet you have the combined population of China and India in in there."