Sunday, November 9, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Sex Magic and the Internet
Sex Magic came to
Earth right as social media was truly taking off, leading to an abundance of
information spread around the world, despite mainstream media attempting to
downplay its spread in the beginning. Naturally, many websites themed around
the Magic came to prominence, even as already established sites became filled
with stories and theories and lessons on all of the Magic’s possibilities.
The following are
just a few such sites that were formed as the Magic swept across the world, and
became the go-to sites in the years following.
FAP REPORT
FapReport was one of the earliest Sex Mage Social Media sites to form. Partly an early style of wiki, partly based on the format of MySpace, the site’s emphasis was to sexually embarrass men. Women would use the site to create profiles of men they knew, publicly posting reports of their masturbation habits, sexual fantasies, sexual histories, and (often coerced) nude pictures and video clips.
In this way, thousands of women who don’t even know or would
never meet the man in question can have fun laughing at all of his sexual
secrets being spilled. Likewise, young women who had not developed their powers
could digitally spy on the sexual secrets of a guy they knew. In some cases, it
even allowed a woman to use her magic to find and connect to a man she’s never
met, and tease him without him ever knowing who she is (providing she is within
range). One of the most frustrating aspects of this site is that any woman can
edit any profile, and information is always posted anonymously. Ergo, it is
usually impossible for a man to know which woman or women are posting his
information, unless she outright admits it.
Numerous attempts to have the site shut down only lead to it
being repeatedly re-started elsewhere on the web, and once the reality of total
female sexual domination set into the populace, no one bothered to try anymore.
In part, this was because the novelty of women’s erotic telepathy wore down to
being simply routine, and so a website that revealed everything about a man’s
horny side stopped being novel. Nonetheless, the site became a staple of the
internet for a while as many women still got a thrill out of making a public
spectacle of a man’s dirty secrets, and the anonymity of both the internet and
Sex Magic made it all too easy for women to casually post new information on
whim.
It is speculated that FapReport was in no small part
responsible for how quickly society became cavalier over men’s helplessness
over the Magic.
With the formation of the Queendoms, many of whom have
locked their countries behind impenetrable firewalls, FapReport has splintered
into several Queendom-specific regional forms, most of which are no longer
globally accessible.
Open Season – “Open Season” is a FapReport
gimmick in which a woman announces on a man’s profile that during a certain
date, she is declaring “Open Season” on a man’s penis. This is an all-purpose
invitation to any woman who wishes to use their powers to tease the man during
that time period. Anywhere from dozens to hundreds of women might take some
time out of their day to tease the man with their Magic.
Typically, these last for twenty-four to seventy-two hours,
and are announced by a man’s girlfriend, wife, or mistress. Certain conditions
to the Open Season may also be laid out, such as “send only blowjob sensations”
or “wait till he’s asleep, then let’s manipulate his dreams.” A common, and
often assumed, condition is that the man is not allowed to cum until the end of
the session.
Open Seasons were disallowed after several high-profile
cases of famous men being rendered comatose, or even killed, by the overload of
magical sensations. However, this has not stopped some women from arranging
such events in private groups.
PUSSY POWER
An educational wiki and blog website where women share various Magic techniques they’ve learned, and various scenarios and roleplays they’ve come up with. The site is often credited with being the first of its kind, starting as a small blog ring in the earliest days of Sex Magic’s appearance, and eventually growing into the giant repository of Sex Magical eduction. Thanks to this and similar sites, many women know a full range of tricks and spells they might never have thought of before.
MAGE TUBE
The first and most popular porn video site featuring exclusively Sex Magic related porn, established within the first few weeks of the Magic appearing. It technically started as a subsidiary of Pornhub, but quickly became its own entity. MageTube quickly became the number one video and streaming pornography website on the internet. It is also associated with FapReport and Pussy Power, with one-click options to embed videos on those sites.
Many initially watched MageTube for information about the
Magic even more than the eroticism, but magical sex became the standard,
MageTube naturally became a mainstream site for porn videos in general. The
only aesthetic rule is that Sex Magic must in some way clearly factor into the
videos.
Confessions – A type of pornographic video that
had popularity in the early days of MageTube, and is often linked to FapReport.
“Confessions” are a type of video wherein a naked man, either on his knees or
magically bound to a chair or wall, are teased relentlessly by a woman or women
off camera, who ask him very revealing and often sexually humiliating
questions. The woman is usually never seen in the video, using her Magic on the
man from off camera, but occasionally a woman or women will get on camera to
physically play with the man as well.
The women keep the man teased and at the edge of orgasm in
order to coax answers from him, even as he tries to resist and stay silent. He
will usually be allowed to cum if he’s been particularly forthcoming, but if
he’s been stubborn, he will be fiercely edged several times, then not given
relief.
Despite appearances, many modern Confessions videos are
actually consensual, and are part of sexual roleplay.
NON MAGE TUBE
A “mundane sex” counterpart to MageTube. Once very major website started featuring Sex Magic porn, there was still a market for the days of non-Magical porn, especially early on. Established a couple years after the Magic's arrival, NonMageTube, or NMT, rose to prominence for the sake of pornographic nostalgia.
Aside from re-uploads of pre-Sex Magic videos, new material
featured porn with no obvious magical involvement. Initially, the site also
purported to feature exclusively non-Sex Mage actresses, though since the
window for such are usually in the barely legal range, there was sharp
controversy in some countries over the site’s operations. However, even in the
beginning, it was obvious most videos featured women who were simply pretending
to not have any Magic.
Of the new material, there are two main flavors of NMT
video, ones where the premise is that Sex Magic doesn’t exist at all (sometimes
even resulting in “period piece” pornos set before the Magic’s arrival), or
ones in which the Sex Mage is mysteriously depowered. In the latter case
especially, there is a very large skew towards maledom material.
EX-GRINDER
A website where women discuss, advise, and plot revenge against their ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands, as well as advice for disciplinary practices in current relationships. This quickly extended to outright abusive outlooks towards all men, with chatrooms and forums discussing illegal actions of harassment, brutal rape, theft, torture, murder, and other ways to utterly ruin men’s lives, regardless of the reason.
Multiple attempts were made to shut down Ex-Grinder, but to
little success. Even after being locked off to the Dark Web, it still saw
steady active use. Eventually, however, it was shut down under mysterious
circumstances. One day, the website simply vanished, as if deleted outright,
with no record of it having existing. The original hosting servers were not
found until years later, in the basement of an abandoned house in Africa .
SAMARITAN CENTRAL
A website run by anonymous women, supposedly a series of Archmages, who receive pleas for help in the form of e-mails or private messages from men who are desperate for relief. The Archmages, as well as a wide network of standard level Sex Mages, will act anonymously based on information given in the messages. They seek out the tortured men, and use their powers to override restrictions they may be under, and give them free orgasms. The main website, and it’s splinter groups across various social media sites, are an altruistic counter to things like FapReport and Ex-Grinder. The main website was eventually shut down after the Cascade and the formation of the Queendoms, but some Queendoms do have their own Samaritan networks still operating.
ANONYMAN
Anonyman also differentiates itself from other similar boards in that it is strictly text only. This is because of the infamous Image Trap Event. In the beginning, the site was also an image board, and some men would post pictures of women to attempt to doxx them or post revenge nudes. However, some men on the board ended up masturbating to the images, which of course quickly got them caught by those very women. Immediately, the women targeted by this harassment moved to have the site shut down. The attempt failed, but brought wide-spread awareness to the site, and more importantly to the power that such images had. Very shortly after, the board was spammed with thousands upon thousands of nude selfies, as women tried to tempt guys to masturbate to them, and thus be able to catch them using the site. The site was quickly shut down, and then returned with a text-only format to prevent such disasters. Even now, the website automatically scrambles any attempt to link to other websites just to be safe, and any tricks that do get through the scrambler, well, it’s your own damn fault if you fall for it.
InsTease – A
mostly image-blog posting site analogous to Instagram, this site is mostly a
place for women to post sexy selfies, both for the admiration of fellow
females, and to provoke the libidos of male followers. With the knowledge that
women who have exceptionally large followings of male admirers tend to be among
the more powerful of Mages, many such websites came and went in the efforts of
young women early on to try and capitalize on the effect. However, the sheer
amount of competition made this very impractical, and despite predictions very
few of even the most popular women gained more power than they started out
with, throwing out any notion of reliability.
The practice of selfies kept going, however, now mostly just
another way to have sexy fun, and InsTease is one of the sites that maintained
popularity over the years.
InsTease also has it’s own form of the “Open Season” from
FapReport, where young women will post a picture of a guy, along with a picture
of his penis, and every woman who can sense the penis on display will tease it
with their Magic. InsTease installed an auto-delete feature for such pictures,
and company policy is to not display any single guy’s genitals for more than
three hours at one time, within the same week. However, some groups of girls
get around this by chain-posting the images across several accounts in order.
The Anonyman forums are an anonymous message board, in the
tradition of 4chan, 8chan, etc. It was started a year after Sex Magic’s
appearance, as a place for guys struggling to deal with Sex Magic to talk
openly about any number of topics relating to it, with a minimal risk of being
traced or doxxed. As a completely anonymous board, this lowered the chance of a
woman recognizing an individual man, and even if Sex Mages knew a man was
posting on the forum, no individual male would know the identities of any other
males, and thus could not be made to out his fellow posters. It’s pretty much
common sense on the board to never give too many details of your given
situation, and if you fuck up and out yourself, that’s your own damn fault. In
light of this, it’s become something of a board-wide in joke to always talk about
anecdotes that “happened to a friend or a relative”.
PLEASE TEASE
Some men, for one reason or another, want Sex Mages to use and abuse them, and find themselves lacking in female attention, even the frustrating Magical kind. Even if they know it will lead only to the frustration of repeated edgings, they crave being Magically dominated by a woman. Please Tease is a Tinder-like phone app where men can post a nude of themselves, and offer themselves for a woman in their area to tease them. Once a woman accepts the offer on the phone, it is deleted from the public feed and saved to her profile for twenty-four hours. If there are no takers, the offer is deleted after twenty-four hours. A man cannot make more than one offer at a time.
FapReport was one of the earliest Sex Mage Social Media sites to form. Partly an early style of wiki, partly based on the format of MySpace, the site’s emphasis was to sexually embarrass men. Women would use the site to create profiles of men they knew, publicly posting reports of their masturbation habits, sexual fantasies, sexual histories, and (often coerced) nude pictures and video clips.
An educational wiki and blog website where women share various Magic techniques they’ve learned, and various scenarios and roleplays they’ve come up with. The site is often credited with being the first of its kind, starting as a small blog ring in the earliest days of Sex Magic’s appearance, and eventually growing into the giant repository of Sex Magical eduction. Thanks to this and similar sites, many women know a full range of tricks and spells they might never have thought of before.
The first and most popular porn video site featuring exclusively Sex Magic related porn, established within the first few weeks of the Magic appearing. It technically started as a subsidiary of Pornhub, but quickly became its own entity. MageTube quickly became the number one video and streaming pornography website on the internet. It is also associated with FapReport and Pussy Power, with one-click options to embed videos on those sites.
A “mundane sex” counterpart to MageTube. Once very major website started featuring Sex Magic porn, there was still a market for the days of non-Magical porn, especially early on. Established a couple years after the Magic's arrival, NonMageTube, or NMT, rose to prominence for the sake of pornographic nostalgia.
A website where women discuss, advise, and plot revenge against their ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands, as well as advice for disciplinary practices in current relationships. This quickly extended to outright abusive outlooks towards all men, with chatrooms and forums discussing illegal actions of harassment, brutal rape, theft, torture, murder, and other ways to utterly ruin men’s lives, regardless of the reason.
A website run by anonymous women, supposedly a series of Archmages, who receive pleas for help in the form of e-mails or private messages from men who are desperate for relief. The Archmages, as well as a wide network of standard level Sex Mages, will act anonymously based on information given in the messages. They seek out the tortured men, and use their powers to override restrictions they may be under, and give them free orgasms. The main website, and it’s splinter groups across various social media sites, are an altruistic counter to things like FapReport and Ex-Grinder. The main website was eventually shut down after the Cascade and the formation of the Queendoms, but some Queendoms do have their own Samaritan networks still operating.
ANONYMAN
Anonyman also differentiates itself from other similar boards in that it is strictly text only. This is because of the infamous Image Trap Event. In the beginning, the site was also an image board, and some men would post pictures of women to attempt to doxx them or post revenge nudes. However, some men on the board ended up masturbating to the images, which of course quickly got them caught by those very women. Immediately, the women targeted by this harassment moved to have the site shut down. The attempt failed, but brought wide-spread awareness to the site, and more importantly to the power that such images had. Very shortly after, the board was spammed with thousands upon thousands of nude selfies, as women tried to tempt guys to masturbate to them, and thus be able to catch them using the site. The site was quickly shut down, and then returned with a text-only format to prevent such disasters. Even now, the website automatically scrambles any attempt to link to other websites just to be safe, and any tricks that do get through the scrambler, well, it’s your own damn fault if you fall for it.
Some men, for one reason or another, want Sex Mages to use and abuse them, and find themselves lacking in female attention, even the frustrating Magical kind. Even if they know it will lead only to the frustration of repeated edgings, they crave being Magically dominated by a woman. Please Tease is a Tinder-like phone app where men can post a nude of themselves, and offer themselves for a woman in their area to tease them. Once a woman accepts the offer on the phone, it is deleted from the public feed and saved to her profile for twenty-four hours. If there are no takers, the offer is deleted after twenty-four hours. A man cannot make more than one offer at a time.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Floating Tease
Maggie smirked as she watched her husband gently suckle her
toes. For several minutes now, she’d used her magic to float him in the air,
limbs pulled back into a hog-tied pose, settling his face against her feet as
she stretched her legs out on the ottoman. Tom shivered and trembled as he
sucked and licked her toes; as she floated him, she likewise caused the
sensations of dozens of phantom feathers and tongues to stimulate his cock and
balls, which throbbed with incredible tension. To his humiliation, she likewise
made a phantom finger spell to wriggle inside his rectum, stimulating his
prostate.
She’d been teasing Tom this way for only a few minutes, and
he was already steadily dripping precum like a leaky faucet as his cock
clenched and jerked fiercely in a vain attempt to cum. But then, she hadn’t let
him orgasm in nearly eight weeks, so it was understandable. But she would still
chastise him for it.
“Ugh, you’re making such a mess,” she said in a lightly
scolding tone. “Can’t you exercise even a little self control?” Tom’s only
response was a loud whimper as she twisted the phantom finger in his ass a bit
more intensely.
“Well, anyway,” she said, feigning bored tolerance, “now
that I have your undivided attention, I wanted to discuss a few things with you.
You’re in trouble, mister.” Tom whimpered again. “Oh, don’t even try to appeal
to my sense of pity. You used that up while we were still just dating. By now,
you should know the rules. And the rules say… what? What do they say?”
Tom could only give another high-pitched whimper, but his
thoughts came through clearly to Maggie. She nodded. “That’s right, Tom. They
say that you are not allowed to masturbate. But what were you doing when I got
home?” Another pitiable moan. “Playing with my stockings that’s right. Quite a
clever little set-up, stringing them up on a clothes line, then using a fan to
blow them back and forth, then sitting under them so they would lightly drag
across your cockhead.”
She held them up for Tom to see, and shook her head. “Getting
your pre-cum all over them. So messy.” She tsked as she magically made Tom feel
the sensations she was describing, adding them to the onslaught, causing his
whole body to quake with need. “Honestly, I’ll never stop being amazed at you
men’s ingenuity. Even when you have magic spells restricting you from touching
yourselves or humping surfaces, you still find ways to get yourselves into
trouble.”
She took out her cell phone and checked it. “Well,” she
said, “I’ve got errands to run, and then I’m meeting Judy for lunch.” She
pulled her legs away and Tom’s mouth worked for a few moments more, before
letting out a pained moan of need. He had to do something to try and distract
himself from the teasing torment, even if only a little. Without that, he was
going to go mad!
Maggie stood up and slid off her panties, freshly moist from
teasing her husband. She slipped the panties over his face, making sure the
damp spot was right on his nose. Tom groaned and shuddered, his cock surging at
the scent. As she did, she added a second phantom finger to his rectum, and a
couple phantom hands to rhythmically squeeze his cock, coaxing him fiercely to
the edge of a climax she would not allow him to have. Tom mewed and shook
pitifully, tears of desperation running down his face and soaking the panties
further.
“Now, now,” she said, petting his hair soothingly. “I’ll
only be gone for a few hours, then I’ll let you go. Plenty of time to think
about what you did.” She leaned close and whispered hotly into his ear. “Plenty
of time to devise new ways of getting into trouble, I’m sure. You’re such a
slut for punishment, aren’t you dear?” Tom mewed, but already, she could sense
his mind racing, trying to think of some way, any way, he could defeat her
spells and relieve himself. She’d promised him he could cum if he could find
someway of masturbating to completion, after all. The stockings just hadn’t
been enough stimulation to let him shoot before he was caught.
Maggie smiled and pat his head. “There you go, naughty boy,”
she said. “Keep dreaming.” She reached over and gave his cock a sharp flick,
and all the sensations intensified. She let out a soft chuckle, then
straightened her skirt, slipped on her high heels, and went out the front door,
leaving Tom helplessly teased and afloat.
Common Terms
Sex Magic – The mysterious sex-based power which
has given all adult women on Earth psychic and magical powers over men’s bodies
and minds. Only women ever obtain this power, and no man has ever been able to
resist it.
Lust Energy – The ethereal energies which men
generate, which women then absorb to power their Sex Magic spells. The energy
can only sensed and used by human women; no man or technology has been able to
sense it.
Sex Mage – A woman who has gained the power of
Sex Magic. Since all women eventually gain the power, Sex Mage is effectively
synonymous with “adult woman.”
Archmage – A Sex Mage who demonstrates stronger
than average abilities, and may even be able to perform extra abilities that
most women do not have. Usually Archmages are born into their power, but in
theory, a normal Sex Mage may be able to train themselves to become an Archmage
over a long period of time, if they have attention from a large number of males
who readily supply her with an excess of energy. Most celebrities and porn
stars, for example, seem to invariably become Archmages.
Megami – A Sex Mage with far greater powers than
normal Sex Mages or even Archmages.
They can easily use special abilities most women can’t do. All Megami are
thought have been empowered by the Cascade Event.
Glitches – A slightly derogatory, yet generally
accepted term for Sex Mages whose powers have some faulty aspect.
Queen – A Megami-class Sex Mage who rules over a
Queendom, often receiving worship from her followers.
Queendom – A national ruled by a Megami Queen.
Queendoms are absolute dictatorships where the Queen’s ideology determines the
cultural values of the nation.
Tease Zones – Areas bathed in Sex Magic which
automatically arouse and tease men who step into them.
Queendom Barriers – Tease Zones formed as high,
thick, but invisible walls around the outermost borders of Queendoms. These
trap foreign men trying to enter the country illegally, as well as apply
psychic warnings to women doing the same. In some cases, the Barriers also trap
citizens in.
Gitch Commune – Depending on the nature and
severity of their Glitch condition, some women chose to live in isolation,
either completely by themselves, or in small, all-female communities, where
distance from men can at least mitigate most issues.
Free Roamer Lands – The large stretches of
wilderness and ruined civilization that exist outside the borders of the
Queendoms. These areas are given to anarchy, and consist of "Free
Roamers", nomadic groups or self-sustaining villages and towns that follow
their own codes, but have no means of enforcing rule of law beyond their small
settlements.
Free Zone – Found in a couple Queendoms, these
are protected areas where men are allowed to live free of Sex Magic
interference. Men living here have to “rough it” with little to no running
water or electricity, but on the other hand, women who enter this area and use
their Sex Magic are harshly punished.
The Cascade Event – A global
phenomenon wherein the entire population of the world was knocked into a coma
due to a contagious storm of Sex Magic spell effects. Men were mentally
submerged into sexual dreams so intense that all women around them would sense
it and be overwhelmed by the intense Lust Energy radiating from them, forcing
them to create an equally intense Lust Aura that sent other men into a similar
dream state, spreading like a psychic contagion. This event created the Megami,
who managed to stop and reverse the effects of the Cascade, but not before
billions of lives were lost.
The Cults – In the context of recent history, "the Cults" were small organizations that took advantage of lost and desperate people unable to deal with the changes Sex Magic was making to society. Like many previous cults throughout history, the leaders of these organizations were largely con-artists or lunatics seeking to use easily manipulated people for their own personal gain. Many also claimed to be attempting to unlock other forms of Magic, though this never actually happened.
Several Cults were known to take their newfound philosophies to dangerous extremes, being responsible for ritualistic murders, kidnappings, and political sabotage. At least one Cult was known to engage in domestic terrorism in the name of their goddess. Presently, while some suspect a few Cult communities may still exist out in the Free Roamer lands, most Cults that were not already dismantled by the authorities are assumed to have perished during the Cascade Event.
The Surge – The phenomenon in which the first generation born after Sex Magic arrived on Earth displays stronger powers on average than the generation that came before. All women are closer to Archmage levels of power, Glitches are almost unheard of, and all men produce an increased level of Lust Energy.
Punishers – Women, almost always Archmages, whose job is to punish female criminals, particularly for egregious acts like murdering men or controlling men to commit other crimes.
Ex-Toy – A somewhat mocking term some women have for their ex-boyfriends or ex-husbands, whom they still tease and torment with Magic, usually out of spite.
Pop Day – Some Queendoms or specific towns have come to the conclusion that the men deserve at least one guaranteed day within a certain time period to achieve relief, otherwise, they eventually get despondent from endless teasing with potentially no breaks in sight. Thus, the Pop Day was made as a country or town-wide holiday that happens two, three, or four days out of the year, often in accordance with a pre-existing holiday. For example, Christmas is a common Pop Day for many western Queendoms, while some set them to the solstices and equinoxes. Some places may set a man's birthday as a guaranteed Pop Day as well.
For some the Pop Day is a day of total sexual freedom, where a man's normal restrictive conditions are released, and he's free to masturbate, cum, and initiate sex as much as he wants. For others, the Pop Day is dreadful, as the guys in town may be guaranteed to cum before midnight, but all the women put them through a twenty-four hour cocktease hell to make sure he "earns" his release. Either way, it is heavily discouraged that any man be prevented from cumming at least once on that day, or the women who prevent it may themselves face punishments or social backlash. The only exception may be guys who are being Benched, but usually the Bench is cleared on Pop Days.
Lesbian Amplification Effect – The effect by which one or more women having lesbian sex amplifies the power of their spells and generates an immensely strong Arousal Aura.
Spell Levels – An unofficial ranking of the power of a spell, as measured by scientists at Pandora. This is based more on the intensity of effect a spell may have on a man, which may vary a bit from person to person, rather than a specific measure of "energy", which still cannot be accurately measured to this day. This also can be equated to the euphoric effect Lust Energy has on women.
Fucktoy Ghettos/Bitchboy Ghettos – While an uncommon practice, some of the meaner Queendoms will corral their unclaimed, unprotected, and otherwise unproductive men into these government housing sectors. They are provided with basic living needs, single-person apartments and free meals. In exchange, however, any woman who wants is allowed to simply enter their homes and do whatever they want to them, short of grievously injuring, maiming, or killing them. Men in these ghettos have essentially no rights and no protections, even in towns that otherwise treat their men well. Such places are banned in most Queendoms officially, but sometimes, these sorts of places can crop up almost naturally in more isolated settlements.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Brutal Healing
ONE
I’ll give her this much, she was
still the sexiest woman I had ever fucked. The kind of woman that somehow
combined sexy and cute in the same package. I had met her at a bar on a warm
summer night, and my first instinct upon seeing her was that she was way out of
my league. But after a couple shots of “liquid confidence”, I had decided to
try my luck.
“Hey, babe,” I said, sauntering up
to her. “I hear the beach is nice this time of year. Care to catch a moonlight
stroll?” Crap, could I have sounded more
gay? I thought to myself.
She looked over at me, her blue
eyes wide and somehow mixing innocence and mischief all at once. The color
stood out all the more thanks to her dark hair, which hung straight to her
shoulder. At first I thought she wasn’t
going to say anything and just turn away, but then she asked the barkeep to put
the drink she’d ordered on her tab, then downed it in one swig. I sighed to
myself, thinking I had just scared her out of the bar. But when I turned to
leave, I felt her hand slip into the nook of my arm. “Okay,” she said, her
voice sweet as honey, and her face slightly flushed from chugging her beverage.
“Shall we go?”
Grinning like a fool, I led her
outside to my car. “So,” I said. “You really interested in the beach, or did
you have somewhere else in mind?”
“Oh, no,” she said. “The beach is
perfect. I have a beach house I use for the summer, so we can use that. It’s a
bit far down the road, but it’s nice and private.”
My grin must have widened, because
I saw her smile broadly at my expression. “Ah,” I said, “So are you a summer
resident?”
“Oh, no, I’m local,” she said. “But
I usually live in the inner city, thanks to work. During the warmer seasons, I
use the beach house on my days off, when I can get them.”
“What do you do?”
“I’m a biomancer.”
My eyebrows went up at that.
“Really?” I said. “That must keep you busy indeed.”
“Fourteen hour days, four days a
week,” she said, with a sarcastically chipper voice. “Well, it helps when
you’ve got magic to keep you fresh and energized the whole time, but once that
three day weekend hits, I want to just crash most of the time. It’s been a
while since I’ve gotten out. So what do you do?”
“Oh, I’m a lawyer,” I said. Then, a
bit sheepishly, I admitted, “Mainly just traffic court. Nothing too exciting,
really.”
“Hey,” she said with a smile.
“Nothing wrong with that. Maybe after this is done, you can help me with my
speeding ticket.” She winked and we laughed a bit. We continued to chat as I
drove us to her place. It was indeed out there, about a ten minute drive past
the city limits. She had me pull off onto a gravel road which went through a
line of trees. Finally, we got to a small paved parking area, and just behind
that was the beach house.
Pet Teacher
ONE
The clock ticked by slowly as
Rachel sat in her English class, bored out of her mind. She considered it her
easiest class; writing had always been her strong suit. Unfortunately, this led
to an overconfidence which made her unprepared for her tests, which she didn’t
bother to study for. She could bullshit her way through the essays easy enough,
but it was clear to Dan Hadder, her young teacher, that she was only getting by
on a minimum of effort.
When class was over, Dan called
Rachel to stay behind. The freshman girl sighed, annoyed at the request, but
not really surprised by it. She supposed she couldn’t just slack off forever;
this was college after all, but honestly, how could she be expected to pay
attention when she’d learned most of this stuff in High School already?
Dan sighed a little as Rachel gave
him an annoyed look. He couldn't keep
cutting her breaks, however. If he didn’t learn to be firm with his students,
his teaching career would be a joke. “Rachel,” he said, calmly, keeping his
eyes on her face. “Your performance in
your school work has been lacking. I can see that you are very bright, and can
easily grasp the material, but you don’t put in any more than a minimum effort.
Just because you are bright doesn't give you the right to slack off. I've given
you the benefit of the doubt thus far, but I can’t keep giving you a pass if
you aren’t going to at least try.” Dan waited to see her reaction, hoping she
wouldn't be as dismissive of his words as she was of her work.
Rachel watched him with a bored
expression, her grey eyes glancing over him. He was certainly a cute one, which
was really the only reason she even paid him even half her attention. When he
paused, she pursed her lips together as she carefully eyed him over. “I don’t see
what the problem is,” she said. “I do the work. Why isn’t that enough?”
“Because just doing the bare
minimum isn’t going to get you ahead in life,” said Dan.
Rachel shrugged. “Why does it
always have to be about getting ahead? Life’s not a rat race. Or at least, it
shouldn’t have to be.”
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