For as long as man lived magic was real, feared and revered, with the exception of an imperceptibly short period of time which was ironically named after light.
Light had nothing to do with it!
This book chronicles, in no
enlightened
fashion and with too much focus on the carnal, the return of the human race to its magical roots.
1
Close your eyes and the world will become real. Open them and you're staring at but shadows and illusions. Listen to your heart and you'll be free. The only way out of the abyss is to stop thinking.
Elijah Jones had to double-check the book's cover to make sure it wasn't a cheesy fiction of some sort. It wasn't. It rather stated matter-of-factly its name and objective:
Fifty-three Steps to Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
. Even its writer's name seemed serious: Nazarhak Shagardan.
He hesitated for a second... then grabbed a pen and underlined the "stop thinking" advice. A highlighter would be a better option but what young man owns one of those. He then added in the white space next to it: "This explains a lot."
In thirty seconds, his sister's smile as she receives her returned book will dissipate when she notices the sacrilege... and the insult. Elijah would laugh at her reaction, and insult her book some more. Their mother's asking them--alarmingly and urgently--to "
come see this
" was the only reason Ashley didn't completely go at her brother.
In the living room they found their mother staring at the TV. Dumbfounded. They too became dumbfounded after staring at the TV. The reputable anchorwoman had just announced the arrival of some unusual guests. Humanity had received guests for the first time, and one of them--a very tall and ethereally beautiful woman--was being interviewed on live television.
"This has got to be a prank," Elijah said when he came back to his senses. "A modern-day
War of the Worlds
' drama."
His mother looked at him incredulously. She pressed a button on the remote, and one channel after another was showing the same event; the only difference is the channel's logo and the text at the bottom.
"A bigger effort than I initially estimated, then. Still, a large-scale prank is much more probable than interstellar travel. Only a dimwitted person would thin-"
He didn't get to finish his rational remark, for his mother--for the first time in his life--took him over her knee and spanked him!
2
All over the globe, people started rejecting the friendship offer of the Paendans: the alien species visiting Earth. Some people even rejected their mere existence, and insisted that the whole event was one psyop or another.
The first confrontation was a political one. The spacecraft had landed in New York in front of the UN Headquarters, and was appealing to the myriad nations of Earth to collectively bargain with them-- one species to another. This was clearly a gargantuan mistake on their part. Using 'collective' and 'bargain' this close to one another caused the host nation of the UN Headquarters to undergo what historians of the future will label as
the Red Scare 2.0
. Consequently, the People's Republic of China offered the visiting race, who intended to collectively bargain, an eager invitation to land and temporarily resettle on their turf. This open invitation moved the Doomsday Clock up to 0.5 minute until Midnight.
To add holy salt to injury, heads of organized religions--separately and with great animosity to one another--asked of Earth's visitors to confirm the one and only universal truth (which happens to coincide perfectly with each speaker's own dogma) if they truly wish to gain humanity's trust. It didn't help that the Paendans' response was this:
"For the sake of furthering the friendship between our two species we're willing to tell Earthmen what they want to hear, provided that they reorganize in one clearly-defined, superstitious belief-system first. Otherwise, this white lie business won't work."
One Reddit user by the name of Rationalist_Elijah divulged in detail the personal suffering the arrival of the extraterrestrials had inflicted on him. He would interrupt his typing at intervals to rub his still sore bottom.
Between the impending nuclear destruction, the theological jihad and Elijah's red bottom, the Paendans had no choice but to skedaddle back to the solar system from which they came. Leaving only one cryptic message to whomever may listen:
"
The only way out of the abyss is to stop thinking
."
3
Things returned to normal.
Some works of sci-fi were moved to the drama genre. But that was it.
Rationalist_Elijah joined a local Femdom Subreddit in a quest to find a reasonably-pricing Pro Domme to spank him. But that was hardly the Paendans' fault; they would never have willingly inflicted such an unbearable situation on a young mind as finding a reasonably-pricing Pro Domme.
Some daring linguists tried their hand at decoding whatever hidden message in the aliens' cryptic sentence, but there wasn't much to go about. Finally, they heeded the literal meaning of it and ceased their attempts.
The Doomsday Clock was back to 10 minutes until Midnight.
Ashley Jones was masturbating herself to sleep every night to the memory of her brother's naked ass over their mother's knee, getting gradually redder as it writhed about with no rhythm or purpose-- a poor little tush with a mind of its own trying comically to escape its long overdue medicine. She would feel terribly guilty about the subject of her fantasies shortly after her toe-numbing orgasms. Helen Jones didn't feel guilty at all, but that might be due to the fact that she only masturbated to the memory of that event twice a week or so.
On one eventful Thursday, late in the evening, when the three Joneses happened to be hand-deep in their respective underwear, milking the exact same mental imagery of their shared domestic discipline experience; something magical happened. Ashley sensed it first. An otherworldly source of nourishment coursing through her veins. Was she imagining it all? She thought about if for a second but then realized that she was too far gone in her lustful trance to care. She stopped what she was doing, stood up, looked presentable--as presentable as possible under the circumstances--and headed to her brother's closed door. The river of power flooding into her was intoxicating. She somehow knew what she had to do. Ashley could see her younger brother behind the closed door. His hand and his erect penis were clearly visible despite the door, the dark room, the duvet and his underwear being in the way. She should be freaked out but she was pure instincts at this point.
Elijah sensed the door being flung open a fraction of a second before it happened. Nowhere near enough to hide anything. Someone resembling his sister dashed towards him. Before he could comprehend anything, he was naked, lying on his stomach, and getting one hell of a hand spanking. He could faintly hear a voice scolding him. It took a lot of concentration to decipher some breathy words: naughty... boy... teach... slut. The pain was unbearable and unbearably pleasurable. He was dangled on the precipice of an explosive orgasm--a dangerous position to be in for more than a fleeting second. He was dangling there for eternity. He looked behind him with pleading eyes. On the room's threshold stood his mother. Naked. One hand cupping her generous breast, another moving in inhuman speed in circles over her clitoral hood.
No one in the room was thinking clearly... or at all.
4
Atop a rather comfy pillow--and still with a bottom perched past the edge of the seat because no matter how comfy the pillow was, any contact was better avoided--Elijah sat naked to eat breakfast.
The reason he was naked was that his mother had forbidden him from wearing any clothes. The reason he obeyed such an unusual order was that the clarity he used to experience after the culmination of sexual acts never came. Nor did the culmination. Falling to sleep was neigh impossible for the thoroughly spanked and still erect young man.
Ashley showed up to breakfast in a small black thong and a large white shirtÂ. She smiled at the protruding red bottom and gave it a not-so-gentle slap. Before any sound was emitted from her startled brother, she took his mouth in a big kiss.
When she finally let go of his lips, she asked teasingly, "Where are your clothes, you naughty boy?"
"He's not allowed any," stated her mother matter-of-factly.
"Why?"
"Look at his penis. I draw the line at washing clothes covered in pre-cum, thank you very much!"
Ashley took a seat but not before brushing the head of Elijah's erection to assess the severity of the situation. "Wow. I half-remember ordering you not to cum before leaving your room. Don't tell me you actually listened for once!"
Elijah finally found his voice and informed them sheepishly that he actually tried to not listen... but couldn't. They laughed heartly at his admission. The humiliation of his semi-public nudity and their belittlement only made his predicament harder... and longer.
A thought was trying to surface in the hormonal fog taking hold of his mind.
This
, the faint thought argued,
was not normal!
5
When Ashley was using Elijah's bottom as a drum on Thursday night in St. Louis, Missouri, it was Friday morning in Mansoura, Egypt. The exact same rhythm of slapping was echoed through the 6,328-mile distance in the form of calculated strokes to a rather old rug on a fourth-floor balcony by a perspiring young woman named Rania Asfour.
Unbeknownst to either woman (and Elijah's red bottom), their home cities were named after the same man. A mere coincidence in the great scheme of things.
It was also a mere coincidence that Ahley's spanking and Rania's dusting off started at the exact moment, took exactly the same duration and involved precisely 104 swings of each woman's right arm. It was also a coincidence that during that short period of time both of their brothers were experiencing a raging arousal that ultimately led to nowhere.
Rania knocked the bathroom's door repeatedly until Tarek gave up on his out-of-place, carnal business, washed his hands, pulled up his pants and opened the door.