MAMIE
Tracy walks beneath the verdant trellis at the Farm's back gate. There is no answer to her knock at the door. She walks through the silent house, calling Mamie's name. Upstairs in the bedroom she'd slept in, everything is neat as a pin. Bed made, coverlet and pillows arranged just so, water basin ready on the dresser and the pitcher filled.
Below the window she sees something strange. The dress and apron Mamie wore. She walks outside into the grass. Mamie's clothing, her dress and shoes, cover a mass of bloated drying flesh. It's as a dead body would be if everything solid were sucked out of it. A boneless mass of empty skin in a rumpled farm dress.
Confused, Tracy stands at the back gate. Two cowboys drive by in a pickup. They stop, staring. It's unusual for a cow to be in the farmhouse yard. They stare at her for a long moment, this gloriously pregnant young woman alone, Ezekiel's special one, but to the cowboys, now served up as a tasty morning snack. They imagine passing her between them.
Their dark looks make Tracy nervous. She knows she must get away, but does not want to run. A blob of the bull's semen bloops from her fresh-fucked pussy. The nearest cowboy watches it flow down her golden thigh. It decides him. The door latch clicks.
Tracy runs inside, locks quickly the kitchen door. Upstairs frantic, looking through drawers and dressers, she finds old clothes Mamie had worn when younger, hand-stitched dresses put away for decades. One of them fits nicely over Tracy's baby bump.
Loud banging downstairs. The cowboy stares in confusion as she appears, dressed in Mamie's old-time finery. She steps past and leads him to the side yard. She loves that she's wearing the nice dress.
Tracy points to the disfigured heap of clothing on the grass. "Ezekiel says you have to get rid of this," she tells them. The cowboys bring a wooden box and scoop up the remains. Some time later they can be seen near the woods with their shirts off, digging a deep hole.
Tracy lives in the house after that. She doesn't go near the barns and breeding pens. She uses the bulls to summon the fat midwife, she calls for cows she likes to visit in the house. They have tea and they talk. The cows like coming there, it's a nice break from being fucked and whipped all the time. They drink each other's milk and moan happily.
River is difficult. To Tracy it seems they do not communicate any more. River is fixated on Ascension, it's the only topic she can talk about, her eyes aglow with misted fantasies of who she will be as their Queen. It's one of the stories the fat cows tell each other day and night. It does not matter that all of the women in the Fat Farm lust after the same thing. River gets hungry, and waddles back to the Ascension Palace, avid to stuff food in her mouth, with a bull's pizzle up her hole. Tracy never invites her back.
Serge the vet pays a visit. He is there to examine Tracy, but she will not let him touch her.
"I have a midwife," Tracy tells him. "I want a real doctor." Serge gives her a phone number.
"Where are Ezekiel and Mamie?" the vet wants to know.
"Traveling. They left me in charge."
"Your calf will be taken away," the big vet tells her calmly.
"No," Tracy says evenly. "No it won't. Ezekiel said no."
BATHING BEAUTY
Tracy is comfortable in the big house. She has fun exploring the many things that were put away years ago, the clean musty smells of age.
She visited the barns and stables once, wearing a dress from Mamie's trunk in the attic and some nice sandals she found. It was strange to walk upright among the cows as they settled down for the night. The bulls and cowboys looked at her but let her be. They would answer her questions, but mostly had their eyes on the cute naked cows, several of whom are now pregnant.
Everyone has discovered that frozen mobility is gone. Most of the girls go to their stalls at night and stay in them, although they wind up sleeping on the floor because there is nothing to hold them up. When the blacks and cowboys come in the night they make love the usual ways, not rear entry, but missionary with man on top. Sometimes the girls get on top for a cowgirl ride. The men have trouble adjusting to this but the women have more fun. There is more action now in the barn at night. The lights are left on low so everyone can see. The women make more noise. They don't mind when the bull or cowboy finishes with them and goes next door.