****The following was found at a used book sale. It was in uncompleted manuscript form, and no author or copyright was attributed to it. It's probably a translation, and the 'Black Woods' may be in Europe. From extraneous pages and references to the 'Great War,' and flu epidemic, I think that John's account probably can be dated between 1912 and 1920. Who originally wrote "The Mother," and when it was written, is anybody's guess.****
I had always thought that The Colony was a myth, and the book it was found in, "The Mother," a fanciful fiction. That is, until I saw the original version in the Arcana Library much after the events of this telling. Due to my keen and unending interest in the subject, I became familiar with two versions of the story. The differences were in the details and not in the thrust or implications of the narrative. Both have a mother and son at the center, and take place in the Black Woods. In the version from the rural area, the early intimacies between the mother and son take place on the first night in the woods, when their two bodies huddle together for warmth. In the citified account, the two are in a small room where they hide before fleeing into the woods.
I will discount the differences when telling the story of the book which so influenced and changed the course that my mother and I took. I don't know if anyone will ever read this account, or when. The exact time or place of these occurrences does not signify, except to those who also search.
As to the genesis of my sexual urgings for my mother, it was almost a natural outgrowth of my upbringing. We subsisted in a tiny village, a widow and son living in the closest of quarters, necessitated by the meager earnings we could scratch out. Only sixteen years separated us, while physical proximity and love brought us together.
I had few years of formal schooling, but sought out every book I could beg or borrow from the inhabitants of my village. I was in Kopecken's barn looking through an old trunk full of books, pamphlets, and disparate writings that I had never seen in previous visits. It was there that I made my first acquaintance with "The Mother." I was certain that old Kopecken had no knowledge of, nor had ever read anything in that trunk.
The cover said, "Stories of the Sea," but when I opened it, there was only a hand written copy of something with no title page. I held my breath when I flipped through, and my thumb stuck on a page that had as it's first words, "The mother's breasts were like alabaster, and when he touched them, it brought to his mind the finest silk."
My heart thumped as I read on, it said, "The mother placed her fingertips on her son's gentle hand as he fondled the abundant globe." A mother was allowing her son to touch her breast. It was written right there. My excitement could not have been magnified had I found a treasure. And indeed I had found a treasure, one of unexpected repercussions. I closed the book, with the page still marked by my thumb. I had to stop to savor the moment. I can only imagine how wide my eyes had opened.
What was this thing? Who were this mother and son? Who had written about my deepest desires? I took my treasure and placed it between two other books, thanking Kopecken, I said I would return them. He waved me off and said, "Never mind John." Had he not demurred, I wondered if I would ever have let it from my possession.
When I got home to the single room we had been forced into of late, mother was washing some vegetables from the garden. When she saw me, she said, "More books?" She laughed. "You'll not leave us an inch of space to live in, will you John?" I smiled at the pretty face I loved, with its gentle mouth, and more lines around its star-like grey eyes than a woman of thirty-five should have.
I said, "Yes mother, more books." My hand was almost trembling. Anticipation drove my heartbeat to the time I would be able to resume reading my wondrous find.
When we went to bed, I placed a candle on the side away from mother. With the book on the floor I leaned off the edge to read. It seemed that the first few pages were missing and I flipped to see if it was out of order. I would not have known the title, had there not been a torn out page that said, "The Mother."
I started back at the first available page and lingered after each sentence. I give you here that narrative.
****The mother tended to the various wounds and small cuts on her son's face and arms, and said, "The will be back you know. We must leave, and it must be tonight."
"I know mother, I fear that we will have go to the other side of the wood. I hate what they have done to us, to you...I could kill them, but there are so many..."
"Please Peter, I beg you not to be rash; I could not bear you also taken from me." Her son gave a conciliatory sigh as she continued to bathe his chest and back. She put down the wet cloth, kissed his neck and then said, "Yes, we have to leave, but It doesn't matter, because we shall still be together...come now, embrace me."
They embraced as if the first time, slowly and gently. Her mouth, warm on his, spoke of love between kisses. His hand reached as her thighs opened, and felt between them. The moisture he had come to expect on his mother's cunny was there. The son guided his erection to her entrance. As his thickened flesh penetrated the mother's center, she sighed, and for the moment, for both of them, all was well."****
I had only read veiled references to the sex act in the past, but here was a son inside his mother's hidden place. I had never seen it referred to as a 'Cunny.' I could hardly contain myself. My hardness was a solid stick between my bed and my belly. I could hear my mother's even breathing and was glad she was asleep, as I had been moving noisily in my bed. I looked over at her and she was still. When I went back to the book, to my disappointment, there was to be no more description of their pleasures together at that point. The next page took them to the next day.
I stopped reading, and in my hardened state, thoughts that otherwise would have been trampled, now flowered. My flight of fancy took me to my mother's bed...my mother welcomed me...I was inside my mother. I felt the inevitable approach of discharge as I moved on the bed. I got out of bed before I released, and as I went to the door, I must have awakened her, because my mother said, "John, what's wrong?"
I said, "Go to sleep mother, I'm going out for a minute...I'm warm."
"Warm? I'm freezing," she said.
I said I'd be right back and went into the cool air that promised the coming winter. I brought myself to release behind the house thinking of the word 'Cunny,' and what it might be like to know my mother's.