EDITED BY:
Miriam Belle (second draft)
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
-This story is weird.. I don't know what it is nor would I try to classify it. It has incest, exhibitionism, voyeurism and lesbianism. It simply is what it is. Please pardon any typos and enjoy the ambiguity! --bluefox07
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Everything is relative.
For example, some people build their lives around an event or particular sport. John Jones revolved his life around the NFL, from the pre-season practice to the final moments of the Super Bowl post-game analysis. He was a big man with a big love for the game. He might have told you he put on the seventy extra pounds on his six-foot frame from a gland disorder or from having a wife who served portions of dinner far too generous for a man trying to stay in shape. The reality of it was by the time he turned twenty five, John had already joined the ever-growing ranks of American males who fattened up whilst planted on the couch in their sweats and t-shirts, hands buried deep in the flimsy plastic bags that held their potato chips.
On the opposite side of this coin was his wife Lindsay. Upon the discovery that her husband was more interested in watching touchdowns scored on television rather than making a score with her, she decided to pursue other interests. Sex was an every other night occasion in the schedule of their marriage, which had been fine when they tied the knot back in 2000. To her dismay his lust for creativity in the bedroom had gone the way of his regular exercise habits and she found herself on the short end of a depressingly routine stick.
Lindsay knew she couldn't cheat on John. She knew that if she wanted to, she very well could have done so with the greatest of ease. She was a very beautiful woman in the context of suburban housewives. Her appeal was a subtly sexy one, her fourth generation Irish-Italian looks both exotic and fetching. She watched what she ate and ran every day. She had even bought herself one of those Ab Lounge machines off a television infomercial.
John had claimed it was rip off, but when she began to see definition in her long flat sometimes-toneless stomach she was converted to a full-fledged believer. Her only complaint was that even now, after six months of using the thing she still couldn't figure out how to store it under the bed without taking the whole damn thing apart.
The thought of cheating crossed her mind often, but she resisted the idea.
As John had centered his life on the gridiron, Lindsay centered hers on her one real passion: writing. In the morning, while John worked at the office Lindsay committed four hours from six to ten to her craft. She had high hopes of someday publishing a novel, but she honed her skills online. She had been a Literotica writer for a year by the time the annual "Nude Day Story Contest" came up on the message boards at the site. She had never entered a contest before, instead choosing to focus on her small collection of stories.
Her work was well received in most cases, though her one venture into lesbianism was thoroughly shot down from the moment it was posted on the site. She had submitted forty stories to the site and all of them, save for the lesbian opus "Jessica loves Rachel," had been rewarded with voting scores 4.5 and above. John savored a touchdown on the field while Lindsay relished in the success of a new erotic story. It was a release for her as much as it was a turn-on.
Maybe that's why the failure of "Jessica loves Rachel" was so hard to accept.
It was a cool morning on the day she decided to sit down and write her submission for the Nude Day Contest. Lindsay had just finished with her morning run and shower, sitting down at her desk dressed in a baggy white t-shirt and her spandex shorts. She had pulled her shoulder length dark hair away from her face in a ponytail as she adjusted in her seat and turned on the computer.
She had been wracking her brain for days to come up with something fresh and new for her entry. Lindsay wanted it to be fun and sexy, and yet be something that was relatively new. As with many of her stories, she discovered that the execution of the idea was to be far more difficult than the conception.
Lindsay stared at the computer screen for an hour, her blue eyes filled with a thoughtful desperation as she played with different ideas. She knew she wanted to step out from her normal ventures in the categories of Erotic Couplings and Horror. She leaned back in her comfortable computer chair, stretching her arms out above her head.
After another fifteen minutes of dead ends, Lindsay logged onto the Literotica website and read her feedback reviews. For some reason, she opened the page that had the scathing reviews of "Jessica loves Rachel" and began browsing them again. She knew them all by heart and the act of looking at them again was borderline self-inflicted torture for her. Her chin resting in her palm, she scrolled down and read them one by one.
"It was a nice try," she read out loud the last comment posted, an in depth review by a woman named "the_conquering_clit," and sighed, "The descriptions of your main characters were perfect, but the sex was flat and tepid. Maybe you should research your subject matter a little more? If you do, record it on tape and send it to me! Ha Ha... --TCC"
Lindsay rolled her eyes, "Yeah, I'll get right on that..."
Research the subject matter more? Lindsay knew that she was knowledgeable when it came to a lot of the aspects of sex, but lesbianism was an area she knew little about. She had seen movies and late night cable shows that portrayed the taboo subject, but even then she had felt somewhat removed from it. The magazines John kept hidden in the footlocker in the back of the bedroom closet were wholly dedicated to the idea of women loving women.
What did Mrs. The Conquering Clit expect her to do? Go out and try lesbianism on for size?
The phone rang, startling Lindsay out of her thoughts. She picked up the cordless phone and said, "Hello?"
"Hey babe," John said, "How ya doing?"
"I'm fine," Lindsay sighed. The truth was, she was anything but fine.
"Listen, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind me going to Jackie's for a beer after work?"
Jackie's... the biggest sports bar in the city and also home of the most sexed up waitresses in the north county. Lindsay felt the urge to say no, to simply tell him if he wanted to flirt and get tipsy he could do it here with her. She wanted to say all that, but she didn't. Instead, after a long pause she replied, "Sure. That would be fine, John."
"Really?" he sounded surprised.
Lindsay nodded and looked back at the computer screen, "Sure."
"Okay, that's great," John said enthusiastically, "I'll be home late so don't expect me home for dinner."
"Okay," Lindsay said absently as an idea began to form in her mind, "No problem."
"Love you babe," John said and hung up the phone.
"You too," she said to no one.