I
sat alone at the bar with my hand wrapped around a glass of whiskey covered in condensation. It had been a long day with no one to come home to. Della had run off with another man and I was in no mood too find someone else, not yet.
"Dan, ole buddy," Jackson said, slapping me on the back, and taking the stool next to mine.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Not my dick." He laughed.
"Thought you were hanging with Phyllis?"
"It was good while it lasted." He sipped beer from the longneck bottle. "She and her son are unnaturally close, and I...well, it's sick for a woman her age to, you know, be screwing her son, I don't care if Conner's thirty."
"To each his own." I laughed. "You were banging her. She's a fine looking lady. I don't blame Conner. He knows a dish when he sees one. Does his wife know?"
"Got me. Have you seen Joanne? Man. I'd like a piece of that ass."
"Isn't she missing a leg?" I sipped the last of my whiskey then ordered another.
"Why, you into amputee chicks?"
"I didn't say that. I was just checking if she was the one I thought she was."
"Yeah. Uses crutches all the time. Do you know her?"
"I've seen pictures." I said. "She's a doll. Conner is a jerk for stepping out on her. Geez."
"I could set you up with an introduction." Jackson chuckled. "Man. I've been over there when she's by the pool wearing a thong, might as well been naked, just the two of us. I almost ripped my swim trunks." He sucked on the bottle. "You ever dated an amputee? If Joanne had given the tiniest hint she was interested, I'd have done her over and over."
"My mother's missing a leg." I sucked on my drink again.
"I didn't know."
"She's a recent widow and has mixed feeling about dating again."
"You see her often?"
"Probably not as often as I should. She lives north about an hour."
"You interested in meeting Joanne?" Jackson sucked the rest of the beer from the bottle. He chuckled. "I wouldn't mind that she's a cripple."
"Be careful that you don't let her hear you saying that. She might cut your nuts off."
"Yeah. I've heard Conner say she gets a little militant over disabled stuff, and she's pissed some old boyfriend put those pictures on the Internet."
"I can understand, not that I jerk off over them...not often." I laughed. "Too bad that some of the pictures are of her nude. Wow."
Jackson slapped me on the arm, said he needed to get home, and walked away. I wondered what he would do, and if it involved Joanne. I drank another whiskey, surveying the single women at the bar, and found no one worthy of my attention. I had seen the nude pictures, and Joanne was a very fine looking lady.
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A
few weeks after the conversation with Jackson I had lunch with Mother. Linda lived an hour north. I knew I should visit more often. She was lovely even if she was nearly sixty. She rarely acted her age and now single again, enjoyed dressing provocatively at times. Today was such a day. I had seen her like this, wearing short dresses, a high-heel shoe. I enjoyed the look. I enjoyed seeing how nice she looked with one leg. I had always enjoyed that. I just never admitted that my own mother excited me the way she did.
"Hi, Dan," she said, pulling me closer for a kiss on the cheek. "I love seeing you."
"You look stunning today. Is that a new dress?"
"I wanted to look special for my favorite son."
"I think I'm your
only
son, unless you've forgotten to tell me something." I laughed. "Well, you are my
favorite
mother." I laughed again.
At a restaurant near her house, we sat at a table with a grand view of the lake. A speedboat raced by, and the waves crashed hard against the shore. Buxom women cavorted in skimpy swimsuits, but that did not interest me as much as Linda sitting with the single foot stretched out towards me. For many nights, my fantasies, and dreams were filled with Linda. Maybe knowing about Conner had given me permission to have feelings I should not.
Jackson had never spoken about Joanne or hinted he had an interest in amputee ladies. We had not talked about mine. It was my secret, and I planned to keep it that way. Once as a boy I had let it slip and was humiliated for weeks afterwards. I wonted to transfer to another school, or move out of state. I never told Mother the true reason. Little did Linda know that even back then I lusted over her.
It was one thing to have fantasies over amputees, but to have such close contact with one living at home with you was almost too much to bare. I often saw her stump, watched her touch it, even wear clothes around the house that displayed it well. If Father had a special thing for amputees, I never heard about that.
When I first realized how much fun it was to masturbate, Mother was the object that I used most often. Sometimes my teachers created almost as much excitement. There were others as well including mothers of a few friends.
Mother's left leg was amputated at the hip when she was in her early twenties because of bone cancer. Afterwards the cancer never returned. I sat there watching the single leg extending from the dress. It was long and shapely. I remember how lovely she was when I was younger, and now she was just as beautiful. I did not know why men were not knocking her door down, demanding dates. I assumed it was the missing leg. Fools.
"Are you lusting?" She grinned.
"Can't help if you are the most beautiful lady in the world."
"Aw shucks," she said in a fake backcountry tone. "Next you'll be wanting to date me." She suggestively nibbled her lower lip.
"Would that be so bad?"
"What would people say?"
"They don't need to know."
"I suppose you are correct. Why me and not someone your own age?"
"Maybe I'm in love with you."
"Dan, son, don't think like that."
"It's true. There, I've said it. Man. I've wanted to say that for a long time." I reached over and took her hand in mine. She did not resist. I rubbed it and played with her fingers. I looked at the women on the shore then at her. "None of those women hold a candle to you, not in my mind." I was surprised she had not protested again.
"I know that mothers and sons have relationships that are deeper than society wishes to believe should happen."
"Yes."
We ordered sandwiches and whiskey. I guess I had developed a taste for it because it was her favorite drink. I had never expected her to be this comfortable with what I wanted, yet here we sat puzzling over just that.
"I know some amputee ladies your age if that's what you want."
She had nailed me as a devotee in a blink. Maybe she knew. I was surprised.
"I'm looking at the one I want."
"I'm too old."
"Not for me, and I don't care if you are my mother."
"I know you've always had that look in your eye when I was around. I just wish your father had it, too. We had a good marriage, and he was a good man. He just didn't find that part of me as anything special. I missed that chance to...well, flatter him with my unique look. Maybe I found some perverted thrill with you as you got older."
"I remember those swimsuits. Wow."
"He didn't like it when I'd wear a thong by the pool. When you were away, I'd go skinny dipping. He'd never do that, always insisted on wearing trunks. Once, I tried to get him to go to a nudist resort. He wouldn't even discuss it."