In the Garden
Based on actual events, though this story is entirely fictional.
It was the peak of summer, temperature in the mid-80s, sunny and blue skies, and I went out for a fat-tire bike ride on the gravel roads in the late afternoon. I had bought the fat-tire bike on a whim, but it turned out to be my favorite bike. Just a few miles and you got a good workout, plus you got to see the countryside, and the fat tires and shocks let you float over the rough gravel roads. Wearing only shorts and shoes, I rode for a few miles, the roads lined by the nine-foot-high green cornfields and woods, the nearest houses more than a half mile in one direction, a mile in the other. As I was nearing home, just approaching the nearest crossroad, an orange-red car was stopped just at the intersection, and I crossed in front of it.
Out of the driver's side window leaned a young woman with dark hair.
"A coyote just crossed here!" she said in an excited voice. I stopped, the hydraulic brakes making the fat tires slide on the gravel.
"Where?"
"Right there." She pointed at the grassy strip between cornfields, right at the edge of my land.
"Cool." I said. "I love seeing coyotes. There's something mysterious about them."
"There is," she said, opening the car door and stepping out. She looked to be in her early twenties. She was quite tan, and her t-shirt stopped just below her ribs, so you could see her tan, flat abdomen.
"I could head after him. This bike will go about anywhere."
"He's probably gone. Or maybe watching us from the corn."
I wheeled around and rode into the brush alongside the field, the bike taking the rough terrain with ease, but I couldn't see any sign of it. I turned back, rode back to the road.
"Did you see it?"
"Nope."
"Maybe you will," she said, smiling as she got back into her car.
"Have a great day," I said as I rode back home, while behind me I could hear the car's tires crunch the gravel as she drove the other direction.
It was a few days later, another perfect summer day. It's great living out in the country; I enjoy being in a remote area without many people. There actually is very little traffic on my road, and the farmhouse is surrounded by trees and high corn, so it's quite private. I often like to go outside nude, and on this particular day, as it happened, I needed to pick some green beans and tomatoes in the garden.
You might have glimpsed me from the road, if you were walking or biking and looked, but the garden is back behind the barn, and I walked away from the road toward it, so you'd only see me from behind. I love the feel of the sun on my skin, the grass and garden soil under my feet.
I walked past the plum tree next to the barn, back to the garden.
I was in the garden, the plastic pail about half full, bent over the green beans, when something made me look up.
I froze. To my astonishment, it was the same girl, this time standing near the plum tree, reaching up and getting a plum. I couldn't quite believe it. She ate it with relish, and then looked over, directly at me. Our eyes met. She walked closer, over near an old cement water trough and red-handled outdoor faucet that I used to water the garden in drought. Still looking at me, she sat on the edge of the cement trough, and took off her white backpack, laying it in the grass at her feet. She was wearing a yellow t-shirt and white shorts. Her skin was oliveβhispanic, perhaps.
"Well look at you," she said. "You don't have any clothes at all with you, do you?"
"As a matter of fact, no." I stood.
"I saw you had the plum tree, so I thought I'd get one while they were ripe. I really didn't expect to find a naked man in the bargain. You're in good shape, aren't you? Weights?"
"Weights, a few times a week. I bench my own body weight."
"I believe it."
She leaned down and rummaged in her backpack, pulling out a phone.
"Would you mind if I took a few photos? My friends won't believe me otherwise."
"You're going to share nude photos of me with your friends?"
"Sure." She smiled. "Why not? It's not every day you come across this kind of photo opportunity. Part of you looks like it approves the idea."
I looked down. My penis was out horizontally now, and getting thicker by the moment.
"Not much I can do about it, I guess. I'd rather you didn't."
"Not much choice in the matter, I'd say." She laughed. "When I saw you biking, I did wonder what you looked like, but I didn't think I'd find out this way."
"The coyote."
"Yep."
She held up the phone with one hand and manipulated it with the other.
"Telephoto too." She smiled, looking at the phone screen. "Wow."
By this time my erection was up to my navel, the head wide like a purple heart, my scrotum drawn up tight.
"You're a thick one," she said with a giggle. "I like this golden light. Maybe if I move a little. That's it."
"Did you see me from the road?"
"I did. I could see your butt. You have a nice butt."
"Thanks, I guess."
"What does it feel like, being outside like that, totally nude?"
"It feels really free. I love the feeling of air on my skin. Haven't you ever done it?"
"No, there's always someone around, or a neighbor."
"Not here."
She looked up from her phone. "Are you suggesting I join you?"
"You can if you'd like to."
"First I'm going to share these photos." She swiped at her phone, frowning.
"There!"
"Do you often send photos of a naked man to your friends?"
"Never. That's why it's so awesome."
She put the phone down on top of the backpack. It binged.
"My friend Ann says hi." She laughed. "She says you look friendly."