A young man is given a very special Little Black Book by a mysterious Gypsy Fortune Teller. He uses the magical book in an attempt to seduce the office bitch. How that turns out is very interesting.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
WARNING! This warning is possibly not needed for this particular story, but I am including it because it is needed for most of my stories.
If you decide to read other of my stories make sure that you read the disclosures and warnings at the beginning of each story.
All of my writing is intended for adults over the age of 18 ONLY. Stories may contain strong or even extreme sexual content. All people and events depicted are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Actions, situations, and responses are fictional ONLY and should not be attempted in real life.
If you are under the age or 18 or do not understand the difference between fantasy and reality or if you reside in any state, province, nation, or tribal territory that prohibits the reading of acts depicted in these stories, please stop reading immediately and move to somewhere that exists in the twenty-first century.
Archiving and reposting of this story is permitted, but only if acknowledgment of copyright and statement of limitation of use is included with the article. This story is copyright (c) 2017 by The Technician.
Individual readers may archive and/or print single copies of this story for personal, non-commercial use. Production of multiple copies of this story on paper, disk, or other fixed format is expressly forbidden.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
* * * * * * * * * * * *
I don't usually pay any attention to the fortune tellers at the street fair that is set up each Sunday along the sidewalks near my apartment. I know they are all fakes. I haves heard their spiel so many times I can almost always predict their next line. "I see trouble followed by joy in your future," is one of my favorites. They kind of annoy me, always calling out to everyone promising to tell them the darkest secrets of their past and future. The only thing for sure about them is that everything they tell you is a lie. But this one was different. She was sitting absolutely silently at her small table as the crowd passed by staring into her fake crystal ball.
I was still half a block away when she raised her head and looked directly at me. She continued to stare at me as I approached and then, just before I passed her table, she pointed one scraggly finger at me while at the same time, holding up a small object in her other hand.
I stopped, and she nodded her head. She pointed to what I could now see was a small black book in her hand and then back at me. She gave a crooked smile and again nodded her head.
"OK," I said almost sarcastically as I stood in front of her, "I'll bite. What is so special about that book."
She held the book down in both her hands so that she could riff through the pages. "As you can see, it's empty," she said in a raspy voice. "But it is full of magic. If you write a woman's name in this book, she will fall madly in love with you. She will do anything you ask because she loves you so completely."
She laughed. It was a hoarse, huffing laugh that was almost a cackle. "And when you are tired of her," she said as she closed the book, "all you need to do is write in the next name and it will all be over."
I laughed. "That's a good one," I said. "I suppose you want
ONLY
a hundred dollars for it."
"No," she said, "it is yours if you want it."
She turned the book so I could see the cover and my eyes widened. My name-- my full name-- was on the front of the book in golden type. She held the book out to me, but I stepped back slightly.
"Please," she said, "take it. There is no charge. It is intended for you."
I hesitantly reached out and took the book from her hand. I ran my fingers across my name embossed on the front cover. When I looked back up, she was gone. I don't mean she stepped away from her table, she was
GONE
. In fact, I was standing in front of a big concrete planter filled with bright purple and yellow flowers.
"Weird!" I said to myself as I tucked the book into my pocket. But when I got home, I started thinking about whose name I might write in the book. I considered the redhead who lived across the hall, but she had a brother-- a huge brother who was also a cop. Maybe the blonde with the big boobs who worked at the deli? Naw, she made the ditzes in the blond jokes look intellectual.
I know! Marti Ferme, the stuck up head administrative assistant at work. She treats all men like dirt, but somehow seems to go through one boyfriend after another. It would be cruel payback to have her groveling at my feet. I could see in my mind all of the depraved things I would have her doing for me. I'd tried to get back at her with a lot of petty things to screw up her work over the past few months, hoping to make her look a little bad... or hopefully even bad enough to get her fired. But everything I had done paled in comparison to this. I would put her in her place at last. I carefully wrote her name on the first page of the book and set it with my wallet on my dresser. This was going to be fantastic.
***
The next day at work, I looked up from my desk to see Marti standing there with her arms crossed and a very stern look on her face. "You were supposed to prepare work projections for your department's office admin assistant needs for the next six months," she said angrily. "I was supposed to have them by noon Friday. Where are they?!"
"I filed those last week!" I answered, trying not to yell. I then punched up the proper directory on my terminal and spun it around to show her the file-- exactly where it was supposed to be. Of course, I didn't tell her that I had created a batch file to run Sunday morning before the system backup that moved the file from a hidden directory to where it was supposed to be.
"Oh," she said, looking like she was in shock. "I don't understand how I could have overlooked it." She gave me a very weak smile. "I don't normally make such stupid mistakes. Sorry."
"I'll tell you what," I said, moving quickly to take advantage of the situation, "why don't you have dinner with me tonight and we can talk. I think we both may have been making mistakes about each other."