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Seven hundred and fifty words are the minimum required for a Literotica story--that can be less than a quarter page.
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I started this story for Literotica's "750 Word Project" challenge which is a challenge (or contest) for authors to write a story of exactly seven hundred and fifty words, but after writing a couple thousand words and thinking I'd only passed the mark by a few, I gave up on the challenge and moved on.
I finished the story, looking to keep it short, just not that short...
Sam took Danny's warm half-empty beer and swapped it for the cold one she'd put back in the fridge earlier. She placed the cold beer next to the small plate of uneaten purple berries on his tray. She pulled the Tupperware cap off and dropped it next to his beer. She sat on the couch close to her husband's chair, her peach nightgown riding up above her knees, teasing a peak at her skinny thighs and soft smooth skin.
Although approaching sixty, Sam had the same skinny legs she had when she was twenty. Her skin was as smooth and beautiful as ever, even if some veins now showed through, and her white translucent skin with all of its pink undertones still drove Danny crazy.
Looking at Sam, Danny wanted to slide his cheek up her smooth thigh, up under her nightgown, and take her panties between his lips. He wanted to trace the outline of her thin lips with his tongue.
Sam looked at her husband and looked at his eyes.
"Honey, watch your show." Sam frowned.
"The black and white picture looks good on the new TV." Danny looked back over at his wife and smiled. Sam's face softened as she smiled back and nodded. She was a good sport.
Danny knew his wife was humoring him by watching
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Sam hated horror even more than Science Fiction. She was taking a double hit, but she knew how much he loved the movie.
Danny could still clearly remember the first time he'd seen it. His dad had just brought their first color TV home. It was a giant nineteen-inch thing, the biggest set money could buy. It was enclosed by a large maple colored wooden cabinet. Danny could still hear his mom's whiny voice complaining--
we spent a fortune on a color TV, and we're watching a stupid black and white movie.
Danny could still remember the smile on his dad's face when she finally got up and went to bed halfway through the picture. They were always happiest when she wasn't around.
That was one huge difference between Danny and his father. Danny loved when his wife was around. "Honey, why don't you come sit on daddy's lap." He patted his thigh and smiled at Sam.
"Honey." Sam sounded as if she was scolding one of their kids, the last of which had left for university the prior year. "You know I don't like it when you talk crude like that."
Sam had thrown a fit the time Danny was fucking her, kinky, like a dog, and slapped her on her skinny little ass and told her to come for daddy. That was fifteen years earlier. You'd think he'd called her a whore and tried to fuck her in the ass the way she reacted. He still hadn't given up trying to get her to call him daddy, though, but he never would tell her how much he wished she'd be his naughty little girl.
"And we just had sex last week, so don't try any of your tricks," she said. "Just watch your movie." Sam pressed her lips together, tightly, and smiled, a small
little
smile.
"You know your brother said this is based on a true story, but the government stopped the real thing and hushed it all up." On the TV screen, a man ran down a street pulling his wife behind him. "But they didn't grow copies like the movie." Danny pointed at the screen. "They were more like parasites that came from little purple pea pods, and they burrowed into people's brains."
Sam's brother had worked at Langley for a few years after he got out of the army, and he always told them classified secrets. Only problem, he'd been employed as a janitor.
"Honey, my brother's as crazy as mom was."
Danny laughed. He knew that. (The flu vaccine never turned Danny sterile nor turned his kids autistic, and he was pretty sure they didn't chip him with last year's flu vaccine. But Danny liked to believe some of the things his brother-in-law said; life had more flavor that way.)
"You know you could stand to act a little crazy once in a while."
"OK, Luv. I'll try." Sam sounded like her mind was somewhere else.
Danny thought about sitting next to Sam, slipping his arm around her shoulder, hoping this was his lucky month. Two times in one month was getting rarer and rarer the closer they got to sixty. But he knew he'd just chase her off, so he didn't budge from his chair.
A week later
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"Would you like some more coffee honey?" Sam asked her husband.
"Yes, dear. Could you turn the sound up." Sam took Danny's empty cup and re-filled it. He was off today, but his coffee habit wasn't. For thirty years, he had two cups to start every day. A squat little telly sat on the edge of the kitchen counter, Sam turned the volume up.