"This story results from a collaboration between Subarbaby4u and myself, is based upon Sugababy4u's original idea and presented here with her consent."
Judy Lawson stared out of her living room window, across the plains that stretched as far as she could see. Her heart was heavy, and she thought of her husband, Gary, who was in Iraq. She was proud that her husband was serving their country but she missed him terribly and longed for his return.
Judy and Gary had been high school sweethearts, and neither had ever dated anyone else. Theirs was a typical cheerleader-footballer romance; both of them had plenty of admirers but they wanted only each other and neither of them could have been happier. With the blessing of their families they married as soon as it was announced that the 39th Battalion of the Arkansas National Guard would be posted abroad and they had shared a blissful few days together before Gary left, Judy unable to hold back the tears as she watched her husband leave.
As well as hastily making all of the wedding arrangements, the Lawsons had made a down payment on a quaint little bungalow a few miles outside of Mount Ida in the Lake Cuachita country on State Highway 27. They moved in three days before Gary's battalion was scheduled to fly to Iraq, and those three days came and went all too quickly.
With no neighbors to visit or spend time with and no amenities offering escape, Judy busied herself readying their love nest for Gary's return. A homely girl, Judy dusted, polished and cleaned everything that didn't move, until she found herself cleaning household items that frankly couldn't be cleaner. It was the only way she could pass the time.
But if the days were difficult for the young bride, the long, lonely nights were harder still. She would lay in bed alone, thinking of her husband half a world away, tossing and turning until sleep finally came. It had been like this every night of the two weeks since Gary left, and no one knew for certain when he would return.
One morning when Judy was clearing out a cupboard that she had somehow overlooked until now, she found a large box that contained a variety of useless items. Broken cutlery, chipped mugs and stained clothes made up most of the box, and Judy wasted no time in bagging up this debris which she would dispose of later that day. But there was one item in the box that seemed out of place: a large, leather-bound book, which she found to be fairly heavy when she reached down to lift it out. As Judy blew the dust from the ornate cover, the ringing of the telephone called her away; it was her mother calling, and an hour later when she finally put down the telephone Judy had completely forgotten about the book.
As night started to draw in Judy was sitting on the porch, restless and thinking of Gary as always. Suddenly, she remembered the book and retrieved it from the cupboard. The cover contained only one word: "Incubi", which meant nothing to her, and she decided that reading it later might help her sleep. She placed the book on her bed before taking a long, luxurious bath, and then curled up under the covers and opened it for the first time.
Judy almost shut the book the moment she opened it. On the inside cover was a picture of a hideous creature, the like of which she'd never seen before. The creature had the body of a reptile and the head of a dog, or perhaps a wolf, and large fangs from which saliva dripped. Underneath the picture the same word as appeared on the book's cover was again written: Incubi.
The only other detail that Judy noticed was that this incubi, if that is what these beasts were called, had a penis that seemed abnormally large. Whilst the picture offered no scale by which size could be judged, Judy definitely thought that this incubi must be pretty popular with the females of his species. Judy started thinking about Gary again, his having been the only penis she'd ever seen, touched or felt within her. Gary was quite big, Judy thought, but surely not as big as the beast at whose picture she couldn't stop staring.
With a start, Judy told herself to stop being so silly. Glad that for the first time in days that she was yawning and might actually be able to get a good night's sleep, Judy put the book down and pulled the covers overher.