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WARNING: This is an Incest Category story that features graphic sex between family members. All sexual acts are committed by consenting adults 18 yo or older. It is approximately 11,500 words long which comes to just over 3 LITEROTICA pages. If this is not what you were expecting please click away now. To the rest of you -- please enjoy!
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Friday, February 8th, New Hampshire
"Is this the famous artist Katherine O'Malley?" were the first words I heard when I picked up the phone that cold February day.
"Daddy?" I asked, unable to keep the excitement out of my voice.
"How's the weather over there in sunny New Hampshire these days?" he asked in his deep, unmistakable voice, the smiling, teasing tone clear.
"You're watching the weather channel aren't you?" I accused grumpily as I lifted my eyes to my apartment window and looked through the frost covered windows to the whiteout beyond.
"Gosh I miss shoveling the snow," he chuckled.
"Shut up daddy!" I ordered.
"Here I could be tobogganing down a mountain with my favorite daughter and instead I have to spend my days swimming and snorkeling and surfing in the warm, blue Pacific waters," he said, feigning sadness.
"I'm very busy right now father."
"Are you? Gosh Katy I hope I didn't interrupt you with your latest beau," my father said, his teasing tone now full of curiosity.
"Yeah right! Its two in the afternoon daddy...it's not like I spend my days in bed with," I started, then quickly stopped, not wanting to discuss any aspect of my sex life, or lack of it, with my father.
"Craig said he thought you were on the verge of running off with some bearded, long haired weirdo who hunts defenseless animals," my father answered.
"Craig?" I sputtered, now not knowing if daddy was teasing me or if my stupid brother had made up some story up about me.
"Yup, I talked to him on Sunday."
"You did?"
"Yes, in fact he called me. I know, I know, it's unusual for children to call their parents but once in a while my son does takes the time to call his lonely old dad," he answered, a small complaint clear in his voice.
"I've called," I protested guiltily, knowing his implied criticism was based in fact. "Besides, Craig told me at Christmas that you have girlfriends passing almost non stop through your house."
"Girlfriends?" he asked. "And what does that have to do with my daughters continuing poor treatment of her old man?"
"It's disgusting," I accused, yet felt guilty the second I said it.
"This is coming from the daughter who hasn't come to visit her father in almost two years."
"Since you left mom, you mean?" I accused, my voice shrill.
"I didn't call to have an argument honey?"
"Please don't daddy," I finally whispered. "God, I just can't take any more...shit, why do you always try to make me feel bad?" I demanded as I felt my voice getting louder and shriller. Don't, I warned myself.
"Things going badly honey?" dad asked, his soft inquiring tone now full of concern.
"Shit, I can't paint daddy... not even a bloody vase of flowers...its fucking snowing here every bloody day...it's freezing...I have no money...or prospects... I have no sex life... Christ I haven't got properly laid in months...do you really want to know if things are going 'baaaadly' daddy?" The words had exploded from my mouth, unbidden, unplanned. Aghast I banged the receiver twice hard against my thigh before bringing it back to my ear. Christ, had I used the word fuck? Had I told my father I hadn't got properly laid? I wanted to just smash the receiver back into its cradle and then run out into the snowstorm as I listened to the silence at the other end.
"Who is this? Where's Katherine O'Malley?" dad finally asked.
I was crying, six months frustration suddenly and unexpectedly released in a torrent of tears.
"Honey, are you okay?" dad asked when I didn't respond.
I hung up! Then I didn't answer the phone when it started to ring thirty seconds later.
I simply sat crying in the corner of my big couch feeling sorry for myself. Wondering why I was so sad. And then I started to berate myself for taking it out on my father. Another fucking wonderful day in the life of Katherine O'Malley I thought as the tears coursed down my cheeks.
I was almost twenty-one, hell it'd be only another five days until I hit the big TWO-ONE...until I officially became an adult. Except I felt like a little girl, a lost and unhappy little girl. And I couldn't figure out why.
I was smart...intelligent...or so everyone had always said. I'd done well in school and had my pick of colleges. And I'd found something I loved...and that I was good at. Art... Painting. Except now I couldn't paint a bloody tree let alone the thousands of visions that flitted across my mind, demanding to be put down on paper.
I was athletic and good looking... And yet I'd left a string of boyfriends lying in my wake the last two years. Somehow I'd been able to find every loser who managed to get within fifty miles of me. Okay fate can deliver the odd bad apple but when it happens again and again it's very hard not to realize that you've got something to do with the problem. It's something really great to learn about yourself, that if you're put in a room with nine perfect men and one loser that invariably you'll pick the loser.
And it had nothing to do with my father...or did it?
He should never have divorced mom...and I'd come to accept it as a given that all my problems started when my parents had separated. Even though I had been nineteen at the time and had finished my second year of Art College by then.
And why did I still measure every potential beau against him and my brother if he was so bad? And why did my most intimate thoughts and dreams so often include him? I mean I hadn't even seen him since he'd left for Hawaii some eighteen months earlier.
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My brother Craig arrived four hours later, having driven the one hundred miles that separated his campus from my apartment in a driving, winter blizzard.