Helen had been seeing her quicksand lover in secret, early Sunday morning liaisons, for some time now, and each erotic endeavour had heightened her sexuality. Wallowing in the warming wetness, and sinking sensually in the swampy sand, she had felt a frantic fervour to take things further, not just being made mellow liquid love to, tenderly and caringly, but to let her fluid fancier fully force himself on her, fiercely and fulfillingly. Not just a mutual mingling of sympathetic souls but a wild, passionate, animalistic sex, borne of deeper, dirty desires and drives.
Once again, in the pre-dawn summer light, she made her way through the forest to the clearing where her sandy sweetheart lay. With practiced precision and heart-pounding patience, she stripped and stuffed her clothes in her rucksack, wrapped herself in a towel as she tied her safety rope to a tree, and stood in the swampy shallows, squishing her toes in the soft slime, sending small shivering ripples out to let him know she was there.
Previously, she had hopped out on small, supporting tufts and mounds to the daring deeps of her darling, letting herself sink with knowing experience. This time, she wanted it raw and new, more dangerous than simply letting him engulf her completely for brief breathless moments. The safe path to his centre was off to the right, but the left side, away from the rising sun, she had neglected since mapping out the risk free route over his sucking surface. She also knew how to step and shimmy on his strong skin, trembling like a trampoline, over his miry muscles and rippling risky reality.
Taking a deep breath, she skipped light-footedly over the unknown, almost uncovered, clinging clay-like crust. Like an insect skittering on water tension, she made the merest mark, rarely a ripple, on the outermost ooze but as she penetrated further, her feet started to plunge and sink with faltering stride, breaking the skin as if on thick cooled custard. Staggering with struggling steps, Helen suddenly found herself floundering in his wild, untamed wetness. Like the civilness of culture covering our deep, animal nature, one side of her quicksand lover could be caring and considerate, but here was a primitive personification, the unevolved, savage swampiness of melodramatic fiction. She didn't just imagine and fantasize it sucked and drew her down as her own deep, dirty desire dictated, it really was clutching at her, rasping gritty sand ravaging, clawing her skin like a craving creature.
Within seconds, she was wallowing waist-deep in wave-torn, churning quicksand, like she had seen in many a film, been excited and aroused by the thrill and danger. Secretly she had hoped one day it would be her acting out those scenes, and now that she was, it suddenly swamped her with heart-pounding, chest-heaving, perspiring fear, more so when she realised...