Morgan always dreamed of a big, strong, magnificently muscled stallion being her lover. Hard to the touch all over, brawny, able to protect her so she'd feel safe in his powerful arms. She longed to strum his cut abs like a banjo, abs that were armor-hard plates that could shrug off a sledgehammer to the gut without a wince.
Her boyfriend, Roger, was nothing like that at all. In fact, he was really into the Sony Playstation...the mortal archenemy of all girlfriends everywhere. Morgan fantasized about picking up a Louisville Slugger and bashing that damn thing like the caveman with a bone in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
After dating since freshman year, their average date night conversation went like this:
"Hey baby, what do you wanna to do?"
"I dunno, baby, what do you wanna do?"
They would go back and forth like this for a while before finally going bowling like every other week, and then, that night, they would go to Roger's place for dry, old person sex Morgan had to endure, making sure not to make enough noise so that Roger's Dad wouldn't wake up. There were even some times where Roger nearly got her to orgasm! Morgan could fake it like a pro: she whispered in his ear that she craved his mighty pork sword.
Morgan loved Roger, however. They'd been dating so long she couldn't imagine what life would be like without him. Also, he wasn't a bad guy. He was very nice to Morgan's black cat, Pagan, and didn't bat an eye when she explained she spent her Tuesdays trying to contact the spirits of dead celebrities.
But man, Roger let himself GO. He was barely 5'6", yet he had a puffy, Michelin Man body and cone-shaped man-titties. He had a scruffy neckbeard and wore t-shirts with Japanese cartoons on them. During sex he had to shift his belly up out of the way to let his woefully undersized chee-toh dust covered pecker prick up. It was thin and thumb-short, unsatisfying, with orgasms made by his marble sized balls that were an almost negligible piddle that could fit in a thimble. It was as if his sexless body shaped without testosterone. Under his pasty blubber was bone alone.
Their sex could best be described as two hardboiled eggs dipped in salad oil imitating whale calls.
It was on a Thursday night that Morgan discovered how unsatisfied she was with the relationship. The pair of them went to a keg party they were invited to by an older friend in college.
Morgan wiggled up to the iron keg to pour a paper cup of brew, when she looked up and noticed the shadows of three or four men had fallen over her, all wearing identical red fraternity t-shirts. The smallest guy was two heads taller than Morgan was. They were blonde and had arrogant sneers, their eyes glazed over drunk. Morgan guessed one of their names was probably "Chad."
"Hey baby, check it, is it true what they say about you freak girls...that you're all easy?" The frat guy said, leaning way, way too close to Morgan to the point where she could make out the beer stink on his breath.
Morgan was in a bad place to be for a girl like her. She was a petite five-foot-three, slender as a mink, with a button nose. She wore white makeup that made her intentionally pale, and she wore bright purple lipstick on her thick, bulbous lips. She had piercings in the eye and ear, and her raven black hair was done in thin dreds, some black and others "Bride of Frankenstein" electric white. Her eyes were a shocking grayish blue, and on her graceful and pale arms were tattoos, as was on her thigh and the small of her back. She wore a black collar on her neck, and her slim legs were covered in jet black fishnets.
Morgan was cornered by the four against the keg. In between the frat guys' bodies she could see her boyfriend watching with a face like a skittish ferret. Morgan looked at her lover for support and aid, as men were supposed to provide to women in danger...but Roger only looked back, paralyzed like a doe in truck headlights.
Morgan gritted her teeth. If she was going to get out of this, she was going to have to do it herself. "Move aside, asswipes."
One Frat guy laughed a sloppy drunk laugh. "Jesus, chick, you got spiderwebs all over your cooter or --"
The frat guy didn't get to finish his sentence because Morgan pounced her five-foot-three body on his like a bobcat, her tiny fists pounding his skin like hammers. Another frat guy peeled Morgan from atop his body, with Morgan kicking and flailing like a mad dog. The scared target crawled away, his shirt torn in places as if by teeth.
"Help! Jesus, that chick is CRAZY! S-stay away from me!" The six-foot-one fraternity guy said, his eyes filled with primal terror as he kicked away from Morgan as quickly as if a lit grenade had been placed between them. "She's like a wolverine or some shit!"
The other fraternity guys were too startled to move. Morgan brushed past Roger angrily. "Roger, I wanna go home now." She said glacially, taking a ripped piece of red t-shirt from out from her mouth.
Roger followed closely behind Morgan, his head held in shame. Morgan had a distinct feeling there was no way Roger was going to touch her naked tonight.
Even the next day, Morgan fumed angrily while she was at her part-time job, cleaning out samples for scientists at a geology lab in a large metal sink with rubber gloves. No water was used; she scrubbed with fine brushes and solutions to prevent damage to the rocks. After cleaning them, she marked their position on a clipboard. Behind her was an enormous geode split in half, sparkling purple, along with a sabertoothed tiger skull.
Morgan wasn't angry at her boyfriend. She was frustrated with his lack of assertiveness, with his manliness itself. She wasn't dating the kind of man her loins secretly longed for, and she was taking it out on those poor African rocks.
According to the signs, they were earmarked for potassium-argon dating, and were flakes of basalt and quartz from the Great Rift Valley. They were estimated at 2.5 million years old.