This story takes place in the year 2029. America is a very different place. New laws have abolished personal bankruptcies and debtors' prisons have been revived. Janie, our twentysomething heroine, was about to be sentenced to just such a prison when she was tricked into signing up for a pilot program that keeps her in a kind of chemical captivity. Medicine released within her body causes debilitating nausea and other symptoms every 48 hours, unless she is administered a rescue dose of another medicine. The rescue dose is delivered through the ejaculation of the man for whom she will be a personal domestic servant, a latter-day concubine. Janie's training in the art of being a high-class, government-sanctioned sex worker continues...
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Was it the effect of the medicine coursing through my bloodstream, or was it some hypnotic quality to Ms. Lockhart's voice? When I heard her instruct me to get up, lay back on the bed in the center of the small auditorium/lecture-theater, and start masturbating, I felt a rush of damp desire well up behind my short hairs β whose tangled, fragrant jungle was now on full display before all my fellow concubines-in-training.
Dennis, the muscular, naked black man who had just come into the room and peeled off his bathrobe, extended his massive hand to me, and I placed my dainty little hand inside his. Pulling me over to the bed, he gently pushed my butt down onto the mattress, lightly tracing his lips over one of my nipples as he did so. I shivered in an electric sort of way.
He arranged the pillows to form a small mountain of goose down and high-thread-count pillowcases up against the headboard. Then, still holding onto my hand, he let me down slowly, allowing me to sink deep into the soft pile. Kissing my fingertips one by one, he half-whispered, half-spoke in his deeply resonant, Caribbean-accented voice, "Now, little lady, work a little magic wid dese here, for us all to see."