Author's Note: This story is a loving homage to a number of the classic "mind control" stories and tropes that have influenced this generation of writers. Most of the situations are pastiches of one or more of these (you may recognize them). Hopefully I've tied them together into something a little different while showing an appropriate level of respect for the source material.
Additional Tags: Humor&Satire, Incest, Exhibitionist&Voyeur, one Interracial Love scene
7:00 AM
Elizabeth O'Neil woke to her alarm on a perfectly normal late-spring day. The morning sun splashed across the master bedroom where the divorcee was sleeping alone in the king-sized bed. She threw the thin coverlet back, and gracefully stepped, fully naked, to the carpeted floor. Although Elizabeth was nearly 40, she kept herself youthfully slender through diet and exercise. Exercise like her morning tai chi.
Elizabeth sashayed gracefully out of the master bedroom into the adjacent atrium, where high french windows let in the light of the morning sun. She began her regular daily exercise routine, unconcerned that her son Shaun might see her bare body. In fact, it had been Shaun's suggestion that she work out naked, as it would help focus her thoughts on how the routine was keeping her mature body fit and sexy.
Although Shaun was her son, Elizabeth took Shaun's advice a lot. He'd always been her rock. Elizabeth had given birth to Shaun at 16 after being molested by her PE teacher. Moving to a new school and caring for Shaun while still getting into college had only served to double Elizabeth's determination, and she'd made even more of her life and career. And all because Shaun was there.
Elizabeth had been the first to note the changes in Shaun when he'd moved back home after graduation. The new maturity, the sensitivity, the intuition and judgment - all so far beyond his years. She had started taking his advice almost immediately.
In fact, that was why Shaun now worked for the same company Elizabeth did. She had referred him herself, even though his college studies had been highly technical and specialized. He was brilliant, though. His thesis, "Applications of Computer-Catalyzed Reactions on Long Ethyl Alcohol Chains" had gotten top marks even from Shaun's notably tough and demanding advisor. Although Elizabeth herself had referred him to her company's recruiter, Elizabeth had worried that Shaun's specialty was too technical to fit in with what her company did.
But Shaun turned out to be just as good with people skills as he was with computers and chemicals - which was one reason why Elizabeth herself listened to his advice so often - and he had aced his interviews. Not just that, but he'd negotiated a flexible work from home arrangement even though the company had officially "returned to office." Shaun even had the flexibility to set his own hours as long as his superiors signed off on his work when he was done.
So there wasn't much risk of Shaun being around to catch a peek of her naked body this early, though. Shaun got up as late as he wanted to.
Soon, progression through increasingly difficult poses had the naked Elizabeth glowing from head to toe. Fully awake now, Elizabeth proceeded to the shower to freshen up for the day.
As the warm water flowed down over her trim but shapely figure, Elizabeth soaped herself liberally, running her hands over her womanly curves. Her slender legs tingled as she massaged her pleasantly exercise-sore thighs and calves in the steaming spray. Her firm belly twitched as she ran her fingers over the toned muscles there. And her nipples were becoming sensitive, even more so as she soaped up her luxurious breasts.
Even as Elizabeth felt a sympathetic arousal beginning in her pussy, she realized that she couldn't spend time jilling herself off right now. She'd just get all sweaty and trembly and would have to start over with the soap again, which would make her late to work.
After drying herself off quickly and efficiently with the fluffy towel she had ready at hand, Elizabeth tucked the towel around her pneumatic body and returned to her bedroom. Once there, Elizabeth simply put on a sheer teddy, which did little or nothing to hide her seductively feminine charms. Elizabeth felt strongly that, around the house, a woman should either wear no underwear or only underwear.
Elizabeth had no fear that Shaun would be shocked at seeing her practically naked body when she went downstairs to have breakfast. The idea about what a woman should wear around the house had been his, after all. Shaun was just brilliant at contributing that kind of incisive thought to any conversation, Elizabeth thought. In fact, Elizabeth found herself taking his advice a lot, since he'd come back home - it never seemed to steer her wrong.
8:15 AM
As Elizabeth started the engine of her Audi A4, the LED on the entertainment panel lit up and the speakers began to dispense news-talk.
"Welcome to All Things Examined. Today's topic is Mind Control. Anthony Edwards will discuss the impact of COVID and how anti-vaccine advocates are getting the wrong message. You'll hear Natasha Eaton on the fall of the Finnish government and the new behind the scenes intelligence war in which operatives can be turned to the enemy side with merely a thought. Franklin Myers will speak with financial experts on the unpredictability of the stock market when insider information is more available than ever. And Stacey Adams will chronicle the rise of a new patriarchy, where career women are constantly at risk of losing job and family due to being coerced into sexual slavery."
Elizabeth didn't need to hear how America had gone to shit - she'd lived through 2020! Lived through COVID, and then through the devastating mind control epidemic that followed in its wake. So she flipped the entertainment panel to a music channel and the sound of Panic! At the Disco filled the cabin.
Anyway, Elizabeth didn't need NPR to tell her anything more about mind control than she already knew, since it didn't work on her anyway.
9:25 AM
Elizabeth was walking down the hall to a 9:30 meeting, together with a colleague named Anya Smith. Anya, a few inches taller than Elizabeth, had the slender physique of a college soccer player, inherited from her Jamaican father, but her mixed-racial heritage also gave her an edibly feminine silhouette.
Outside the meeting room, the two women encountered executive VP Fred Halwick going the other way. Halwick stopped them and said "I'm glad to see you two. Can I have a second of your time? I've been meaning to ask you two a question. Does one of you little nympho sluts want to give a man a blowjob?"
Intakes of breath. Shock.
The two women looked at each other in horror at Halwick's effrontery. Turning to the suited man, Anya slapped him across the face. "You bastard. If there were still sexual harassment laws, you'd owe me your salary for life!" And Anya stamped off furiously down the hall towards the meeting room.
Elizabeth followed. Even after the past few years, Elizabeth was somewhat shocked at Halwick's brazenness. But other than the insulting sexism and condescension, she wasn't much worried that he might have attempted a mind control trigger phrase. Not only had he failed somehow, mind control didn't work on her anyway.