An elderly woman recounts the events of her life to a stranger she encounters late one summer afternoon on a secluded park bench.
Suspend your disbelief and immerse yourself in a tale of hard times, incest and maybe even love.
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I grew up in the East Texas hills during the early years of what came to be called the Great Depression.
My family was dirt poor and struggling even before the Depression, and found ourselves destitute and perpetually hungry during and afterward. We had a large family, but Daddy and Momma always managed to hold it together for the sake of us kids. There were nine kids, myself (the youngest), my older sister Frannie, and my seven brothers. I celebrated a very happy eighteenth birthday in 1932, but by the spring of 1933, we were on the verge of losing our pathetic little farm in a bank foreclosure. My sister had run off with and married a shiftless bum by the name of Billy Merkelson and my brothers, except for the two youngest had one by one drifted away looking for work that didn't exist.
We struggled along for as long as we could, and finally one day Daddy packed up our battered pickup truck, and we left the old farm. After a long, dusty three hundred mile drive, we ended up at my Uncle Jim's place. Uncle Jim was actually Daddy's Uncle, my great uncle. Following a quiet, hushed conversation with Daddy and Momma, Uncle Jim agreed to let us stay with him and his family in exchange for Daddy and the boys working on the farm, Momma helping Aunt Dee Dee with housework and cooking, and me tending to the animals.
Happily, things seemed to work out well for all of us for a while. Daddy, Uncle Jim, my brothers and Uncle Jim's son Jude who was about twenty-five at the time, even worked together to build on two additional bedrooms at the rear of the house. For the first time in a very long time, I had begun to feel as if things would be okay, that despite the difficult times we had already endured, we could be reasonably secure here with Uncle Jim.
At least that's what I thought in the beginning, but within that first year of our moving there, my life was turned upside down.
It was because of Jude, my cousin Jude.
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Sure, we were relatives, but I didn't really know the folks on Daddy's side of the family that well. Though Uncle and Auntie were sweet and helpful to us, they were still practically strangers, especially cousin Jude.
Jude was a ruggedly good looking man, tall and hard bodied from years of working on his family's farm, thick dark hair and piercing grey eyes. From the beginning, in spite of his being my cousin, I was attracted to him, but at the same time cautious of him. He made me uncomfortable the way he would watch me, follow me around, always trying to touch me. I think I might have even been a little afraid of him. It wasn't until the night that I caught him peering through my bedroom window while I was changing for bed that my apprehension suddenly became real. Standing there naked, I pulled on my robe, ran down the hall to Momma's room and tried to tell her what had happened.
As soon as I entered her room, I blurted out what had happened. I could tell by the look on her face and the way she spoke to me that she didn't believe me or was afraid to believe me.
"You stay away from that boy, she said, you hear me? Keep away from him."
I looked at Momma and thought I saw a brief flicker of concern in her eyes.
"Momma?" I asked
Just as quickly, her concern was replaced with accusations. "I'm not surprised, she said. If I can see the way you flaunt yourself around here, no wonder the boy is always looking at you."
"Momma, I never . . ." but before I could finish my denial, she cut me off.
"You better stop swishing around here and teasing these boys . . . you're just asking for trouble, girl."
Did she actually believe I had intentionally done something to encourage Jude's attentions?
I remember from the time I started budding out, Momma was forever cautioning me to be careful when I was alone or around any of the menfolk. Before we lost our farm, she had already noticed how the boys from school had started coming by and how the farm hands would watch me lustfully when they saw me around the farm tending the animals or working in the garden.
I wouldn't say I was an innocent exactly, I liked boys, and they liked me, but I wasn't a slut or anything like that either. My folks didn't know, but I had a "boyfriend" who I had let take small liberties. At night, I would sneak out to meet him and I even allowed him to fondle my breasts under my blouse and finger me occasionally. Though now nineteen and having lived in the country with seven older brothers, copulating farm animals, infrequent visitors and a myriad of itinerant farm hands, I was still a virgin.
Hurt and disappointed by her reaction, with tears brimming in my eyes, I walked back to my room and closed the door.
*****
I was emotionally exhausted and wanted to crawl into bed and forget Jude, forget Momma and just go to sleep. I removed my robe and felt my nipples contract from the chill in the room, I reached up and touched the hard, sensitive peaks. Tossing the robe across the foot of the bed, I glanced up and saw that the window curtains were still parted, and the window partially opened. Had I opened the window and forgotten to close it?
Without thinking, I walked around the bed to the window and standing there naked and exposed, stared into the darkness, clearly visible to anyone who might be outside.
Catching my reflection in the now closed window, I took in the image of the girl who returned my gaze. Barely 5' 4" and 120 lbs., I looked in wonderment at the figure, remembering that just a few years earlier I had been a skinny, knobby kneed tomboy running and playing around our farm. In that short span of time, my body had changed. No longer the tomboy, my body had become a woman's body. Long, thick, blonde hair cascaded in soft profusion about my face and over my shoulders with a darker blonde tuft of curly, still girlish hair covering the mound between my legs. Full sensual lips, clear bright blue eyes, accented by thick, dark eyelashes. Almost without my noticing, I had become a butterfly; smooth shapely legs, slim waist, curving hips, tight, firm ass, all complemented by full, pert breasts, with long, dark pink nipples.
I heard a noise and looking more intently into the window's reflection saw Jude standing on the other side of the room.
A sudden feeling of being a trapped animal washed over me, and an awful tightness griped my chest as I stood there and watched him unbuckle his pants and let them drop to the floor. How long had he been there? He was already in full erection, hard and swollen, a thick bead of pre-cum glistening on the tip of his cock. Shocked, I could only stare at him in silence as he began stroking himself, a leering grin spreading across his face.
I could feel the sexual tension increase as my eyes involuntarily drifted downward. His cock was so big, much bigger than my brothers were. Having grown up in a house full of brothers, I had caught occasional glimpses of them in their rooms changing clothes or walking unselfconsciously from the shower to their bedrooms, but despite this male environment, I had never seen anything like this; I had never seen any of them in this degree of sexual arousal. The sight of the rigid red cock between his legs was . . . was almost scary.
"Come here, little cousin. I'm going to teach you how to suck my dick. I'm going to teach you how to suck it just the way I like before I cum in that prissy little mouth of yours."
I wanted to scream, but I couldn't, the sound won't come.
"If you don't get out of here Jude, I'm gonna tell everybody what you're doing," I said.
After a long pause he said, "No. No, I don't think you will. If you breathe a word of what we're going to do, you and your family will be out of here. Besides, no one would believe you. In a way, us being cousins will make what I tell them about you even worse. Do you think my folks would want you around here knowing how you "seduced" their son? Knowing how you had been teasing me since you came, and how when I couldn't take it any more and was too weak to stay away from you, you slipped me into your room one night and let me fuck you. At least that's the story I'll tell them, and they'll believe me, too."
"That's a lie!" I shouted, tears of frustration and disbelief spilling over.