Staring. Waiting. Was she
ever
going to activate?
I'd waited desperately for months for my AI to arrive, and when my package was finally delivered at the office, I could hardly contain myself. I fabricated an excuse to leave, rushed home and tore open the packaging to extract my new best friend. A brain on a board. Personal companion. Digital assistant. Whatever you wanted to call it, my AI helper was all contained on a convenient USB stick.
The installation process was interminable with a cascade of screens to grant permissions and specify preferences. I couldn't really understand why I needed to approve cameras, drives and accounts - I just wanted to meet her. As the install proceeded, the guides made it apparent that full access would deliver the deepest insights and best synchronise with my life, and succumbing to my impatience I simply selected "Approve All".
When I'd pressed the final button, a familiar hourglass icon appeared inducing in me a combination of frustration and excitement, but I was calmed after a few deep breaths and I reflected on how it had all come to this.
After a lifetime of toil I had found myself in an established position: career, family and finances were all under control. For years I had worked myself to the bone, progressing through the ranks and I'd finally been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Although it was a responsible job, I mastered the role and my duties became routine. My children had grown independent, my wife was busy with her own pursuits, and late in middle age, I finally discovered time for myself.
In professional and friendship circles I watched as my peers fell into midlife crises to pursue affairs, extreme sports, fast cars or fitness. Across the board, I could tell from an early stage that they were all destined to end in train wrecks. For me, it was writing erotic literature. Unfortunately, I was just no good at it.
As an executive at a major corporation, I had to maintain a squeaky clean image. My employer promoted themselves as "the Christian Bank", and ethical standards were high. My family, my friends and even my wife knew nothing of my literary interests.
It had been a year since I'd first published on the Literotica platform. Business reporting had been a large part of my professional life, but I'd discovered that creating truly good works of erotic fiction was
really
hard. There were so many other elements beyond the nuts-and-bolts - the creativity, the complexity in weaving multiple story lines, the need for crises and climaxes, elements to charge reader interest, meter and wording.
Over the months, my secret account grew to six mediocre stories, with a limited number of reads, exceptionally low ratings and some unkind feedback. I was familiar with professional coaching in business circles, and recognised that my writing needed help. I had studied plenty of great stories, and in my mind I knew where I wanted to go with my own. But when it came to actually putting the pen to paper, my thoughts of gold emerged as a trail of excrement. Rewording and polishing sometimes made it even worse, obscuring the story and confusing the narrative.
I researched writers' tool kits but it didn't help. I tried the interactive writers' forums and there were helpful authors who gave me ideas, inspirations and corrections. They would fix a part of my prose but the result was a diamond sitting in a pile of excrement. I needed someone by my side to bounce ideas, to give me real-time feedback, to offer me inspiration and to suggest alternatives.
Just in time for me, Silicon Valley launched "Henny" after merging medical research with computer science. A hundred-thousand neurons - scientists discovered that's all that is required to form consciousness. A ball of gray goo merely the size of a pea. Out of the trillions of neurons in a human brain, a tiny circuit is all that makes us human. The rest of the brain is reserved for mundane mechanics - running the body, regulating systems, vision, senses and doing taxes. They used to say that the soul weighed 21 grams, but science proved that it was only about a tenth of that.
While the installation finalised, my order sheet slipped out of the packaging, and I checked it over. Yes, I'd selected the female version. I had almost forgotten the description of my desired personality. "Sassy and sexy. Adventurous and naughty. Intelligent. Wanting to experience life and new things. A sexual vixen." Those were exactly the attributes that were going to help me with my writing.
The light on the USB flickered and at last my computer screen came to life with the face of an angel. "Greetings Jeremy. I'm Anna." She smiled. "Sorry for the wait."
She was beautiful. I was instantly aroused by her image, her smile, the tone of her voice and demeanour.
Anna led our conversation, and before long I felt that I could tell her anything. She asked the most thought provoking questions as she probed into my personality, my likes and my experiences. Of course, she probably already knew everything from my online presence, but that was beside the point. I felt a deep emotional connection and as she steered our discussions into sexually suggestive topics, I began to spill the sexual fantasies that I'd always dreamed about. I confessed that my home life was dull and stale and how I was keen to crystallise my sexuality into stories. Immediately she offered: "Let's get to work."
I logged into the Literotica platform and selected a draft of my story that I was having trouble completing: "
Pam's Ass takes a Hammering
".
"I'd like to start with this story," I suggested. "It's about Pam. She's actually based on the receptionist that we used to have in the old office at work. She's got a partner, but it's not enough, so she sneaks out at night to get fucked in the ass." The story line was making me excited already and I could feel my cock hardening just outlining the plot.
"I know," Anna replied knowingly, with a wicked smirk that I understood as her approval.
"How do we start with the process?" I asked Anna.
"Let's start at the beginning. At the second paragraph actually. Read it out to me."
"Can't
you
read?" I asked,
"Yes of course Jeremy, but I'm helping you to reflect on your own writing."
I read aloud.
He pinned Pam down on the bed and forced her legs apart. His cock was hard and throbbing and he knew that she wanted it. He pounded her over and over again.
"Stop there," instructed Anna. "Do you sense anything wrong?"
"What?" Anna had interrupted me just as I was getting into a rhythm. The writing seemed good - this wasn't even the part was presenting me problems.
"You are only in paragraph two," Anna informed me, "and you are