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                 Karen Eliot's Excellent Adventures #1


     The shiny red Integra glided through the late morning weekday 
traffic on the Balboa Peninsula. The cool sea air blowing through 
the sunroof and windows left Karen Eliot's flaming red hair 
trailing in the sportster's slipstream. A rock'n'roll CD blasted 
from her stereo. Tapping the tunes with her fingers on the 
steering wheel she smoothly approached her beach house. The music 
and engine died at the same instant. Karen reveled in the salty 
sea air and the calls of the gulls as she strolled across the 
carport. She never regretted her decision to live at the beach.
     Karen pulled her black halter top over her head and dropped 
it next to the mail on the counter. The light nipples on her pert 
breasts began to harden. She reviewed the letters that she'd just 
collected from her mail drop as she stepped out of her shorts and 
panties. She sniffed the g-string before dropping it the nearby 
pile of clothes. She was wet. Settling on the bar stool she 
reached for the stash. Karen rolled herself a slender doobie as 
she listened to the messages on her phone machine. Lighting the 
fragrant Thai weed, she opened the long awaited answer to a zine 
ad. She examined the brochure which broadly sketched what she 
expected. Yes, NQA did indeed mean No Questions Asked. "High 
sexual adventure" was just as suggested in the advertisement. She, 
as a player, wouldn't have any clues in advance to identify her 
partner. The expert-system tailored encounter was absolutely 
guaranteed to satisfy her desires. She had in fact wagered a large 
chunk of cash based on two personal references. The arbitration 
arrangements were excellent. Details would arrive by mail soon.
Karen absently licked two finger tips and rolled them lightly over 
her moist clit. She lightly pinched her nipple with her long 
finger nails. At this point Emma, her feline confidante and a 
sister believer in the rightness of pussy worship entered and took 
front row center seat for the unfolding show. Karen kept her 
movements slow and her touch light. Sometimes a finger or two 
would stray and disappear for a time beyond her downy trimmed 
patch only to come back with more nectar to lovingly caress her 
swollen clit. An electric feeling ran through her body, connecting 
her erogenous flesh. Her hips bucked and rolled as she got herself 
off. Slowly her low moaning and gyrations ceased. Opening her eyes 
Karen found Emma still in rapt astonishment. With a soft laugh, 
Karen said, "Think what you will, Emma, but it sure beats a 
sandpaper tongue on the ass, which you seem to favor."
     As she adjusted the water in the shower she knew she'd be 
watching the mail.
     

     Five days later Karen was adjusting the shower again, but 
this time it was in preparation for her first Adventure meet. 
Stepping into the shower and letting the hot water stream down her 
contours Karen reviewed the instructions. It didn't take very 
long. All the note had mentioned was Cool Dave's Steak House along 
with the address, date and time. Karen soaped her breasts and 
envisioned Cool Dave as perhaps an irresponsible surfer type whose 
wealthy parents had set him up in the food business when law, 
banking and corporate sharking proved beyond him. As she  finished 
soaping her long legs, she turned her attention to her pussy, 
giving it a gentle scrubbing in anticipation of wild frolic; a 
flight of mind and body to dizzying heights and depths, not the 
brief and mediocre in-and-out that too many of her partners had 
let pass for a "great lay". Realizing that she had started to 
stroke herself, Karen ran the other hand down the cleft of her ass 
cheeks and continued until she was definitely aroused. Abruptly 
she switched the water to cold to finish her shower. It always 
made her skin feel alive and her mind wide awake no matter what 
her previous condition had been.
     She had chosen a light peach knit dress that hugged her body. 
The fabric conformed to shape of her upturned tits, flat tummy, 
and graceful hips. Toweling herself dry Karen then powdered 
herself before the mirror, assessing her body. She had a light 
dusting of freckles. Her slender feet with high arches ended in 
perfectly painted toes. Her legs were firm and taut, sculpted by 
years of participation in a variety of sports. Gentle swell of 
hips and ass. Smooth tummy. And those tits; even she thought that 
she had a nice set. They required no upward coaching and were 
crowned by sweetly protruding nipples that were more accurate than 
a mood ring. The bright green eyes were the most outstanding 
feature of her face. Naturally thick lashes and flawless skin had 
saved much hassle with cosmetics over the years. The angular lines 
of her face along with her bearing often reflected a serene 
confidence. Satisfied, she slipped the dress over her head.
     Pulling up to a standard wood and glass restaurant of the 
California style Karen noted a near empty parking lot, it was only 
six thirty and Karen was happy to get eating out of the way to 
make more time for the project at hand. Guided to her booth Karen 
was a bit taken back to see no one there. Ordering white wine she 
sat back to wait and scan the faces.
     Caleb, her waiter, suspected the redhead at the reserved 
table right away. You just got a feel for them after awhile. He 
read about this sort of stuff in magazines. Too bad sugar daddy is 
late. Five minutes and I start bugging her to order.
     Karen glanced at the menu and hoped to any deity listening 
that the waiter glowering in her direction was not Mister 
Superfuck.It was then she felt the first feather like touch begin 
to go up the inside of her thigh. She shifted slightly to 
accommodate her unseen admirer who exhaled warmly on her downy 
thatch. The fingers still playing almost randomly over her legs 
were so light and gentle that except for their size she might have 
thought there was a woman hidden under the table cloth. Also the 
mouth that was becoming bolder had a mustache.
     Show time, Miss Scarlett, sneered Caleb's manly inner voice. 
Arranging his face to appear suitably disdainful he strode to her 
table. She had enough on the ball to go ahead and order a crab 
salad he noted, but he knew the pressure was getting to her. Her
voice was a tad breathy and there was a fine sheen of perspiration
on her upper lip.
     Between a tongue that tantalized her clit and fingers that 
had now picked higher ground to give their delightful attention, 
Karen had a better idea why she was in the corner booth. She let 
herself enjoy and savor the relative privacy. With the waiter gone 
she was able to lift her hips enough to have her ass tenderly 
cupped and kneaded. She eased one silky thigh on his shoulder and 
could feel the roughness of his cheek on her. Remaining silent and 
still required determination. Her lover eased away from her pussy 
as the intensity of her orgasmic peaks approached overload. 
Karen's orgasm faded. She relaxed as expert hands softly toweled 
her crotch.  With a final kiss against her swollen mound, her 
lover eased into the seat next to her. "I'm Brian", he said. 
"Please follow me." He dropped a Franklin on the table as they 
walked to the manager's office.
     Caleb had arrived with her crab salad. What a waste. The babe 
was gone. He picked up the $100 bill and resolved to keep the 
entirety. He returned the salad and destroyed the check.
     Brian assured Karen that Cool Dave was essentially out for 
the duration. Or at least until the Brady Bunch special was over. 
Dave's office was appointed with furniture which apparently hadn't 
seen much use. Brian's intentions were clear as he stripped. Karen 
felt herself responding to the enormous organ which he revealed by 
shucking his jeans. Brian grinned at Karen as his penis grew with 
every beat of his heart. Karen barely believed that the beautiful, 
well muscled surfer with the gigantic dong was hers. With a grin 
of her own, she pulled the dress over her head and shook her wild 
curls. As they met in a warm embrace their tongues intertwined in 
a deep kiss. They slowly explored each others hot mouths. With a 
touch Karen led Brian to the sofa and had him lie down. She 
planted her knees on the cushions next to his head. As she 
prepared to concentrate on his manhood, she slid back on the sofa 
and again presented her twat and ass to the accomplished muff 
diver. Karen grasped Brian's thick slab of man meat with one hand 
and cupped his hairy balls with the other. She licked the length 
of his shaft until it was glistening with her saliva. She released 
his balls and began stroking his pole. Brian gently licked and 
nipped at Karen's pussy lips as her tongue ringed the purple head 
of his throbbing dick. Karen reluctantly released Brian's rock 
hard tool. She agiley positioned herself above him. Brian massaged 
Karen's tits as she grasped his member. With one hand she spread 
her labia and with the other she stroked the entrance of her 
vagina with his dick head. Brian felt Karen's tight, hot cunt 
engulfing his veiny girth. Karen established her pace to the time 
of Brian's bucking hips. She'd never felt more stuffed than when 
their crotches slammed together. Karen couldn't help her moans of 
pleasure as they fucked faster and faster. Karen rocketed to 
orgasm and slowly subsided on Brian's chest, where they gently 
hugged. After a moment Karen arose and motioned Brian up. She took 
his place on the sofa and said, "You drive". Karen raised her legs 
to Brian's shoulders and Brian guided his cock into her invitingly 
raised pussy. He grasped her ankles and thrust in and out with 
briskly controlled strokes. Hard in, easy out, long, and short, 
controlled by Karen's breathing and movements. Her pleasure 
building beyond control, Karen came again and again.  Brian assumed 
a position on all fours above Karen. They kissed deeply and with 
great affection. He then extracted his rigid member and stood, 
admiring, over Karen. She also rose and they warmly embraced. 
"One more time, stud", Karen said. While holding his shoulders, 
she jumped up and wrapped her supple legs around his waist. Brian 
reached under Karen's legs and clutched her buttocks. As he lifted 
her up his dick trailed the juices of their love down Karen's tummy. 
He lowered her drenched snatch onto his shaft. Brian raised and 
lowered Karen with his powerful arms. Karen's head was rolled back 
as she moaned with delight. Brian's explosion was building. 
They intensified their screwing until they came together.She could 
feel his semen pulsing deep into her cunt. Her vaginal sphincter 
spasmed on the root of his cock. They exploded in ecstasy together. 
After a brief hug, they disentangled. Brian's semen ran from 
Karen's snatch and down her thigh as she licked his love muscle clean. 
He returned the favor by slurping the fluids from her pussy and thigh. 
Brian produced a fluffy towel which they both used to contain the 
wayward ejecta.
     Brian pulled out his stash as Karen relaxed. He cut two fine 
lines of Peruvian blue flake and separated them on the small 
mirror. He handed the mirror and a narrow tube to Karen. With a 
delicate sniff she inhaled a line of the fine cocaine. She leaned 
back in the growing euphoria. Brian snorted the other line and 
secured the stash. They sat on the floor enjoying each other's 
presence, warmly embraced in the glow of fucking and the coke. As 
one, they arose, dressed, and slipped unnoticed from Cool Dave's 
office and restaurant.
     Brian had already gotten a room at a nearby hotel and the 
quality and variety of his sexual prowess had truly been 
memorable. Karen had made another appointment for as soon as 
possible on the strength of it. Now she pulled her car into the 
convenience store parking lot because she was still early for her 
meet at the hot tubs next door. Oh well, Emma was running low on 
chow so she would pick up a few cans to avoid the accusing looks 
that Emma meted out when disturbed by dietary restrictions.

     Ken glanced about with the practiced economy of a predator. 
If something didn't happen soon, he was going to have to move on. 
Avoiding ambush and capture had honed his sense for such things. 
The lone clerk in the 7-11 had noticed him an hour or so ago. He 
really didn't need the pigs on him over some vagrancy bullshit. As 
he turned the corner out of sight he again nervously checked his 
weapon. The Glock 9mm that he'd taken off a pig after wasting him 
still had a nearly full magazine. Well, less that one round for 
the cunt he'd greased in Texas last week. It was lucky for him 
that the pig ran combat loads; one shot, one kill. Or two. He'd 
seen a newspaper that said the bitch was pregnant.
     The electric company crew was pulling out. Shit, the place 
was flat empty. The approaching red sports car got his attention. 
A very attractive redhead got out of the Integra. It was spooky 
the way she'd laid that penetrating glance on him. Her bright 
green eyes seemed to see everything and more. This was it. He was 
taking this one.
     Karen noticed a man who seemed to be waiting for someone by 
the convenience store. Was this the guy? He was kinda cute, if a 
little on the hunkish side. She didn't feel any thrill of 
recognition like last time, but she could feel the tingly warmth 
and wetness between her legs. 
     Anyway, the guy didn't establish contact. She walked past him 
and into the store.
     She was grabbed upon leaving the store. So it is him, huh? 
     He'd immobilized her with a vise-like grip at one elbow and a 
crushing arm around her waist. She could hardly breathe. All he 
said was, "Come with me!". He quickstepped her around the side of 
the store and to the back. Ken opened the passenger door of his 
Mark IV and Karen stepped in with growing anticipation.
     Ken carefully drove the short distance to the secret corner 
of the park which he'd earlier selected. The behemothic automobile 
glided to a stately halt in the empty parking lot. "You first", 
Ken said motioning, "In the back".
     Ken immediately began hardening at the sight of Karen's bare 
boobs jiggling beneath her cotton shirt. Nips up, too. Karen 
presented her lithe hips and slimly contoured ass to Ken as she 
wiggled past him on her way to the back seat. The delicate aroma 
of pussy aroused him further. This babe's knockers were 
magnificent. Ken followed Karen to the aft of his land yacht. He 
immediately set to groping her. Karen removed her shirt and Ken 
began eagerly mashing her melons and roughly pinching her nips. 
Suddenly deciding what he wanted, Ken turned Karen facing away 
from him and tugged her slacks and panties over her hips and ass.
As soon as Karen realized that his hardon wasn't rigid enough to 
penetrate her, she turned and gracefully began licking and 
manipulating his wand. Karen wondered if he might be anxious. In a 
few short strokes of her slender fingers, he was ready. Karen 
turned back around to present her fuck target. As Ken closed, she 
reached between her legs and guided his cock into her cunt. He 
immediately began an incessant rabbit-like pumping. This bitch 
really had a great attitude. Karen was starting to get into the 
rhythm of Ken's hammering. Her orgasmic waves were building to 
explosion peaks, but with great moaning Ken pulled out of her just 
before coming. In the style of the porn vids with which Ken was 
exceedingly familiar, he spurted his load of jism on her ass and 
back. Ken had absolutely no doubt that he'd just had by far the 
most pleasurable experience of his warped existence. Karen 
suggested taking the blanket outside where there was more room to 
romp. Entranced, he followed. As they spread the blanket on the 
grass, Karen extracted a hooter from her stash. Lighting it, she 
offered it to her partner, "Would you like a toke, mac?", she 
asked. "What's a tokamak?", Ken dimwittedly responded. "It's a 
small doughnut-shaped nuclear reactor in which a plasma is heated 
and confined by electric and magnetic fields", Karen said, "But 
that's not important now. Would you like a hit of my joint?" 
Absolutely unable to deny the ultrafox wonderbitch, he imbibed. 
They passed the smoke back and forth. After moments of silence, 
Karen spoke softly, "Look. Let's do it again. This time, follow my 
lead, okay? You got a name, Tiger?". "Ken", he said. "That's 
better. Lean back, please Ken", were the last words possible from 
Karen as she took his limp hose into her mouth. As Ken hardened in 
her mouth, Karen accommodated his growing cock in her throat. Her 
licking and sucking was sufficient to obtain a highly erect 
member. Karen threw a leg over Ken. Lying on him, she hugged 
herself to him. Karen's hot breasts pressed into Ken's chest. 
Karen could feel his engorged dong against her belly as she 
clamped his hips with her legs. After a momentary hug she lifted 
her chest and shook her tits in an exaggerated fashion, rolling 
her head of beautiful flaming locks. 
     Ken rose on his elbows and licked gently around Karen's erect 
nipples. He'd shift between light sucking on her nipples or 
kissing and massaging her breasts. Karen rolled her head as Ken 
pleasured her. She raised her hips and grabbed Ken's manly meat. 
She toyed with his dick head at the entrance of her cunt. Slowly 
Karen lowered herself on Ken's pole. Her controlled strokes paced 
their united climb to orgasm. Several times she kept him from 
coming by grasping his balls. When Ken's approach to his climax 
became undeniable, Karen rode his bucking meat all the harder. 
With cries that couldn't be held back, they came together. Ken's 
soft dick slid out of Karen's snatch as she rolled off him. Within 
minutes, Ken was fast asleep.

     Unable to rouse Ken, Karen yielded to her intuition and began 
a quick but detailed search of his personal effects. If this isn't 
Mister Superfuck then who is he? Keys and a gun. No papers of any 
kind. She was reasonably sure that he wasn't a narc, but fascist 
gangsters are dime a dozen. She rolled the handgun in the lunch 
bag and slid it under the seat.
     There weren't any tools or even a spare tire in the trunk. 
What was all this weird cult religious stuff? Tracts, banners, and 
books. She'd never heard of the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu. Since 
The Esoteric Order of Dragon, a debased, quasi-pagan thing 
imported from the East a century before, the peculiar mythos had 
made few inroads on Sol III.
Karen dumped Ken's clothes within the cavernous trunk.
     Ken was snoring in the grass when Karen got back to him. She 
covered him with the blanket, giving him a decidedly homeless 
look. A complete stranger to the Hawaiian smoke, and in a pathetic 
post-coital torpor, Ken was soon snoozin'n'loozin as Karen split 
with his car.
     Karen eased Ken's Lincoln back into its original parking 
space. Like before, the area was dead. She removed the semi-
automatic pistol from the brown bag under the seat. After checking 
the safety she ejected the clip and jacked out the chambered 
round. Karen took the gun and ammunition to the gutter. With a 
metallic clatter she dropped the lot to the street. Swiftly, she 
kicked everything into the storm drain. The car keys followed.
     Karen bought a can of WD-40 and a butane cigarette lighter 
from the bored clerk at the grocery. When she got to Ken's car she 
carefully sprayed every interior surface with the penetrating 
lubricant. After making sure that she had all her things she 
locked and closed the door. As she walked away from Ken's car, 
Karen tapped the lighter into an exhaust pipe so as to lodge it in 
the muffler. The WD-40 can joined the gun and keys in the storm 
drain. With a frisky swing of her hips, Karen headed for her car 
in the front parking lot of the mini mall.

     Upon returning home Karen was not very surprised to find a 
message on her machine asking why she had not made her meet. Ken 
had not been an earthshaking lover at all. She didn't much like 
having to ditch a gun and wipe a car because of him either, but at 
least everyone would walk away mostly unharmed. And she could 
still look forward to her next encounter. 


                Karen Eliot's Excellent Adventures #2

                       by Jim and Meg Norris



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     it is not modified in any fashion whatsoever, and provided it 
     is not delivered for any price or charge.



     Karen sat at her bar in the small pool of light cast by a desk 
lamp.  She keyed the remote and was immediately jolted by the 
intense volume in her headphones.  She quickly adjusted to the 
digital rock'n'roll.  She extracted one of the two sugar cubes from 
the small ziploc and dropped it into the clear water which about 
half filled the blue crystal glass.  Karen watched the thin tendrils 
and bubbles climbing upward from the dissolving cube.  When only a 
vestige of the cube remained, Karen stirred the water.  The painted 
Emperor penguin atop the glass stir stick turned and spun.  Clasped 
lightly in Karen's regal fingers, it completed the ceremonial 
preparation.  Karen raised the glass and drank the water in several 
unhurried swallows.  With a phrase, she invoked her hypnotically-
installed interface metaphor and prepared to enter the always open 
playground of her mind.
     Karen closed her eyes.  As always, the first effect to hit was 
the intense joy.  Beyond euphoria, she was lit by the electric 
pleasure of cognition.  The acceleration of her awareness took 
Karen's breath away.  She was filled with a sense of vibrant energy; 
restless, resisting confinement, awaiting purpose.  Karen waited, 
still and receptive, enjoying her most powerful and balanced hit of 
L+ yet.  Her face was transformed by a wide grin.  Everything that 
she experienced seemed hilarious.  The boundless soul laughed at 
every aspect of its voluntary earthly confinement.  The joyous 
feelings mellowed and Karen could feel the visual effect hitting.
     She opened her eyes.  Her will twisted the perspective of her 
view.  With slight effort, she could see the framework of points 
underlying her previous perspective.  Karen loved to come to the 
grid of brilliant spectral colors pulsing on a background of the 
deepest black.  She shifted her perspective further into the grid.  
The perception of her immediate surroundings become masked by the 
perspective switching.  With the underlying grid mostly in violet 
with some green, she could see her world alongside.  With the grid 
shifted to yellow and blue, her world became a fading afterimage.  
The final displacement was to orange and red grid lines.  The 
delicate flows between the white node points connected by the grid 
lines were clearly discernable.  Karen relaxed, her mind still.  
When she felt totally cleansed, Karen twisted her perspective back 
to her physical circumstances.
     The point framework faded, but the clear joy remained.  Karen 
tamped the last of her Mendocino purple kush into the bong bowl.  
She smoked several hits of the famous one-hit shit.



     Karen piloted her 16-valve yupster through the thickening early 
morning traffic.  She drove to her favorite regional park, 
occasionally playing with the shapes of the fluffy clouds to the 
sounds of blasting rock'n'roll.  The promising gusts of wind earlier 
had picked up to a steady breeze.  
     She was easily able to fit into the street side parking space 
left by a suit driving a boat that didn't quite look like his 
father's Oldsmobile.
     Karen removed the two bags with her gear from the car and set 
off on foot.  Her favorite visual hallucination was immediately 
operational; the clouds were false colored.  The resolution improved 
as she watched.  Horizontal and vertical movement was highlighted to 
the degree of magnitude.  Movement tails were plotted against the 
latlong grid on the sky that suddenly appeared.  Her left eye 
displayed additive color mixture and her right showed subtractive 
mixture.  She blinked rapidly several times before establishing gray 
scale; positive on left, negative on right.  With several more 
blinks she tested the binocular gray of her shaded object view mode.
     She switched the tactical overlay on and enjoyed the instant 
replacement.  Dense monochrome axial and edge lines defined the 
plotted objects in her wireframe view mode.  She blinked rapidly and 
switched the representation color; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, 
violet.  Trees moving in the breeze appeared as fractal fluff.  She 
toyed briefly with switching visibility of the hidden lines before 
halting on the small hilltop that she'd walked to.  The position was 
ideal for kite flying; an unobstructed hilltop with a comfortably 
calm lee side.  Karen willed the visual hallucination suite off.
     Once Karen had unpacked everything that she needed, the special 
components of her custom kite were arrayed about her in small 
unitary bags.  Moving lithely, she fitted the machined alloy tubes 
through the fabric.  With some flexing of the frame tubes, the 
assembly locked into position.  The dihedral looked perfect to her 
practiced eye.  She quickly attached her toys to the kite.  This was 
to be the final test of the digital camera.  The stoner-friendly 
components were a cinch to connect and test.  The kite ready, Karen 
swiftly connected the signal processor and the display to the power 
pack.  Her nipples hardened as she stood facing the oncoming chill 
wind with the black shark kite.  Once she released the two meter 
long kite, it tugged aggressively to achieve altitude.  The ratchet 
on the reel of line stopped clicking at full extension.  Karen 
hooked the reel to a concrete-anchored barbecue grill.  The kite 
would easily stay aloft all day, given wind.
     Karen plugged her goggles into the display plate.  She tested 
the trackball controlled lens movements.  The stabilized lens mount 
really cut down on vertigo.  She switched through her visual 
hallucination series satisfactorily with the remote device.  The 
view was centered downwind from her position.
     Karen started looking at her surroundings in an expanding 
spiral from the duck pond directly below the kite.  She tarried 
briefly while watching the city maintenance crew loafing near the 
lake's pump housing.  Only a single weather-beaten Pinto occupied 
the nearest parking lot.
     Karen spotted a boy walking purposefully toward the junked out 
ovenmobile where an equally weathered man sat eating a burrito in 
it.  The boy had the eager, slightly feral look of someone exposed 
to particularly harsh realities of life at too young an age.      
     The lad leaned in the passenger side window and apparently 
spoke with the driver.  As he walked away he stopped and seemed to 
meet another person whom Karen hadn't noticed.  The kid and the 
woman walked together toward the Pinto.  Both crowded at the window 
briefly.  Karen twiddled the controls to get maximum zoom and the 
best angle.  She watched something pass hands from the woman to the 
driver.  
     Then the woman and the boy got into the car.  They crowded 
together in the middle of the car making detailed observation 
impossible.
     After a few minutes the woman and boy got out of the car.  It 
occurred that the similarities in appearance and expression 
suggested a familial relationship.  Had the kid set up a deal for 
his mom?
     Spiraling wider, Karen took in the surrounding neighborhood.  
The immediate view was a jumble of air conditioners, fireplaces, 
antennae, and dilapidated roofing.  The yards proved to be barely 
more interesting, with the usual domestic animals and uninspired 
gardening.
     Still, things were not without potential as the viewing 
mechanism came to rest and Karen watched a woman stroking herself 
with tanning oil.  Almost as if she had willed it the elegant 
woman's hand was dipping into her scant bikini bottom.  The woman 
gave herself over to the pleasure of it and Karen absently licked 
the fine sheen of perspiration above her lips.
     Peripheral motion caught Karen's attention.  The Smith's 
Department Store delivery van stopped at the curb in front of the 
woman's house.  The driver walked up to the porch and waited.  
     Karen scanned back to the poolside.  Apparently in oblivion, 
the woman had just found the extended nub of her clitoris.  Karen 
read her lips, "Oh...fuck...fuck me, Jim...oh...God! Fuck meee...".  
Waves seemed to engulf her as she sank her hand deeper into her 
cunt, making her shudder with orgasm.  She relaxed on the lawn.  
     Apparently she hadn't noticed the delivery man standing on her 
porch watching her.  Karen knew that she had something here that was 
better than soap operas.  If this followed the hallowed script line, 
the coy bitch would play kinda hard to get, yet a hot wench once 
coerced into putting out.  Karen watched the woman get up and face 
the delivery man.  The cups of her halter dangled, her proud breasts 
displayed openly.  The look on her face as she whipped the guilty 
hand behind her back was priceless.  She shook her tits and rolled 
her pelvis enticingly while upholding the verbal pretense of 
fighting off an over-eager admirer.  He approached her and ran his 
hand over her breasts.  She raised her pubic mound in horny 
response, "No, please, don't.  I'll give you money."  His immediate 
reply was, "Keep it.  I'll do it for free!"
     Skip and Barbara introduced themselves once they were satisfied 
that they were committed to fucking by the rules of the mating 
ritual.  Skip finger fucked Barbara briefly before helping her out 
of her sodden bikini.
     Barbara freed Skip's erection from his jeans and began stroking 
it.  She kissed and licked his cock lightly and insisted that he 
fuck her.  Skip knelt over Barbara, slipped his massive hardon into 
her sloshing cunt, and proceeded to pump furiously.
     Karen noticed what must have been neighbor kids atop the wall 
at the back of Barbara's property.  As she watched, two boys jumped 
down and ran away.  The others, a boy and a girl of about the same 
age, stared unabashedly at the rutting adults.
     Karen turned her attention back to Barbara and Skip.  Barbara's 
thrashing was either seizures, or she was coming big time.  Just a 
moment later, Skip began jabbing his pelvis against Barbara's crotch 
with severe determination.
     Following their mutual orgasm, Barbara began protesting 
vociferously.  Skip didn't seem deterred and Skip began licking 
Barbara's tits and belly.  Karen looked back at the kids on the 
wall.  The kids who had run away were back.  They passed something 
rather large to their friends on top of the wall.  It was a 
videocam! They got it going just as Skip started licking at 
Barbara's pussy.
     While continuing to lick and suck Barbara's drenched box, Skip 
straddled her, positioning his dong above her mouth.  Barbara 
greedily mouthed his meat with abandon.  Karen watched the two 
lovers perform for the juvenile audience.  Eventually, both came 
again, but this time they collapsed afterward in exhaustion.
     The sex apparently complete, Karen continued her widening 
spiral scan.  Karen was still hot from her shameless voyeurism.  She 
unzoomed and tried to chill out.  It was some time before her 
consciousness expanded to perceive the coverage area fully, without 
effort.  After a period she lost track of watching and just watched.  
She felt the cold edges of eternity as the individuality of her 
perception faded.
     Thoroughly refreshed, Karen took off the display goggles and 
arose.  The ultra-stable shark wasn't as thrilling to fly by hand as 
most kites, but was fun nonetheless.  She unhooked the reel from the 
barbecue and stood on her local hilltop, anchoring the peeping 
shark.  Karen was starting to become bored with the kite when she 
noticed a young man approaching.          
     The smiling face of don Genaro was pasted over the approaching 
stranger.  She hated it when that happened.  The Castaneda clan, who 
considered her to be some kind of witch, invaded her lofty highs 
periodically.  Karen had to wait out the limited power of the ally 
which was reduced by ignoring it.  Meanwhile, in a thought bubble 
over her head, an icon-sized Yaqui sorcerers apprentice scribbled in 
his hilarious notebooks.
     "Happy Earth Day, Karen", Genaro said.
     "Piss on that", Karen said as she continued to fly her kite.
     "What?", Genaro smiled.
     "Happy Earth First! day", Karen replied.
     "What's it matter what you call it as long as we act together 
to save the planet?"
     "You sound like the environmental president.  Let's link arms 
across Amerika and pretend.  Let's pretend that someone else will 
fix things.  Save it for the yuppie swine."
     "Okay, what're you doing?"
     "Well, let me see.  I'm shipping a crate of special tree 
spikes, writing to imprisoned Firsters, and planting trees.  And 
that's today."
     Unsure of the man's exact identity, she posed an insider 
question, "How's the titty project"?
     "Beautiful! The tiny turbofan was incredible.  We got much 
better performance from the zeppelin than expected.  And quiet? 
Almost inaudible at altitude.  How's the vid?"
     "It's perfect.  I taped some haus frau fucking a delivery man 
in her back yard over there", she said, pointing to the subdivision 
next to the park.  "And I wasn't the only one.  The kids next door 
are going to make her a local celebrity."
     Still, don Genaro could have been one of several men.  But, 
which one?  Another insider question, "And the navware?"
     "Haven't heard, but that was the easiest part.  I'm sure it's 
go", Genaro responded.
     With the realization that she was speaking to Roger Wilco, the 
airframe contractor, the don Genaro face disappeared, leaving 
Roger's craggy, but handsome features.  The figure in the thought 
bubble paused and looked up before vanishing.
     "I've got a solid lead on the fundy mentalists", Roger 
announced.  "A church that they gather at before descending on 
clinics.  An OR organizer flew in for a meeting tonight."
     Used to the short notice which was often involved in 
monkeywrenching, Karen pressed for details, "What's their security?"
     "Jesus and the parking lot lights."
     "What're you doing?", Karen asked, her interest piqued.
     "Placing caltrops.  There should be a nearly full parking lot, 
and we have enough for all.  There's even enough for the helpful tow 
trucks and supportive friends."
     Without reservation, Karen agreed to the date.  She traded 
turns with Roger hauling in the peeping shark.



     Karen negotiated the suburban streets according to the 
instructions that she'd received.  She found the health spa with 
little effort.  She'd passed on several previous occasions, but had 
been unimpressed by the lack of business that was evident.  If the 
grounds were any indication, the spa wasn't doing any too well.
     She parked under the shade the nearest tree to the door.  The 
information desk was right inside the door.  Karen was pleased to be 
recognized when she introduced herself to the pretty brunette.  
During the time that she waited for her masseuse, Karen watched the 
swimmers in the olympic pool beyond the plate glass.  Several men 
and a woman played hide-and-seek games enthusiastically.
     Dena, who would her masseuse, was not what Karen had expected.  
She was a short, plump, Latina with a kindly but deferential manner.  
Dena led Karen to a private massage room.
Once the door was closed, she withdrew a small pipe and her stash of 
Humboldt skunk from her purse.  As she loaded the pipe she explained 
to Karen, "It's an excellent high.  No seeds".  The women sat calmly 
and puffed the bowl to dust.
     Karen roused herself from her mental fog and stood, gracefully 
pulling the pinafore dress over her head.  Her tits jiggled 
delightfully when she shook her hair out.  Almost as an 
afterthought, she slipped her bikini panties off and stepped out of 
her sandals.  She dropped all three articles of clothing on the 
chair which she'd just been sitting in and and lay face on the 
prepared table.  Dena waited, warming the oil in hands that had 
sturdy, practiced fingers.  Karen hadn't taken note of Dena's covert 
appreciation of her gorgeous body as she disrobed.
      Starting with a sweeping arch that took in Karen's shoulders 
and the upper portion of her back, Dena began.  Her fingers worked 
in concert to slowly knead the areas that offered resistance.  Karen 
felt the tension retreat as Dena worked her flesh with warm circular 
pressure.  Dena used delicate touches to relax Karen's neck and 
scalp before turning her attentions to Karen's lower back.  
Captivated by the gentle curve of Karen's sweetly freckled ass, Dena 
cupped and rubbed the lovely buttocks.  Karen automatically spread 
her legs apart as Dena stroked her upper thighs.  Dena thoroughly 
rubbed Karen's shapely legs.  As she proceeded toward Karen's ankles 
she was overcome by the perfect picture of split tail.  
     Dena bent Karen's legs up at the knees and began a detailed 
study of her feet.  Her fingers traced every detail of Karen's toes, 
arches, and heels.
       Karen rolled over at the easy touch.  Dena intertwined her 
fingers between Karen's toes and lightly sucked and licked between 
them, the while rolling her fingers along the tender arch.  Karen's 
erect nipples testified to her growing excitement.  She arched her 
back involuntarily and moaned excitedly from the wonderful sensory 
overload.  Dena's expert hands kneaded Karen's calf.  She massaged 
Karen's upper thigh and knee.  Karen's legs gradually spread further 
apart revealing her moist and puffy pussy.  Dena rubbed the other 
leg from the thigh to the knee and ankle.  Finally, she gave Karen's 
left foot equal treatment.  While Karen relaxed, Dena moved around 
to Karen's side.  She made several applications of oil to Karen's 
chest, manipulating her breasts gently.
     Dena lost herself briefly playing with Karen's firm and shapely 
tits.  The well oiled mounds conformed to the constantly changing 
pressure from her hands, but immediately returned to their pert 
contours when released.  Dena concentrated her efforts on each 
breast in turn once Karen's nips came up; one hand shifting and 
sliding, the other tugging and twisting the sensitive nipple.  When 
she could tear herself away, Dena bent over and lightly kissed each 
of Karen's coral-colored nips.
     Only the slightest pressure was required to prompt Karen to 
reposition herself on the table.  From slender feet to tapered 
calves to slim thighs, Dena relished the view of Karen's shapely 
legs dangling from the table.  She felt nothing short of adoration 
for the flower of womanly flesh nestled in Karen's downy pubes.
     Dena dabbed special spice-scented oil on Karen's swollen mound, 
rubbing gently around and around.  She brushed the fleshy inner lips 
and saw the first drops of translucent dew.  With practiced strokes, 
Dena manipulated the lubricated labia.  She caressed the clitoral 
hood with one hand while easing the index finger of the other into 
the snug pussy.  She tantalized the hardened pea and the delicate 
labial fold.  Dena added more oil and began screwing her finger in 
and out of Karen's cunt; slowly at first, but faster and faster in 
tempo to Karen's bucking hips and inarticulate moans.  When she got 
the track of Karen's approaching orgasm Dena carefully synced her 
motions, until the orgasmic waves from Karen's clit and G-spot 
cascaded over her repeatedly.
     Dena slipped the amyl capsule from her stash while Karen 
relaxed, laying back, breathing raggedly.  As soon as Karen was 
desensitized, Dena lowered her mouth to Karen's crotch and exhaled 
warmly.
     Dena reamed the point of her delicate tongue into the puckered 
rosebud of Karen's asshole.  Karen moaned gently and rubbed an erect 
nipple between forefinger and thumb of one hand while she played 
with Dena's glossy mane with the other hand.  Aroused by the musky 
femininity, Dena began licking the length of Karen's slit with 
fervor, occasionally tugging her pussy lps gently, or nuzzling her 
swollen clit.  As she licked gentle circular patterns, Dena prepared 
to crush the capsule.  She carefully led Karen to the edge of 
orgasm; hips gyrating, rolling her pussy wantonly, crazed.  Karen 
had just started her hard climax when she smelled the medicinal 
odor.  Instantly, the vasodilator hit and Dena jammed a finger in 
her ass.  Karen rode the forever acceleration of rocket-boosted-
orgasm nearly to seizures before it faded.  She lay back, spent and 
exhausted.
     Dena slowly arose and walked to Karen's side where she leaned 
over and cuddled the redhead gently.  They snuggled briefly before 
Dena patted Karen's sweet ass and stepped away to prepare the 
shower.
    Karen got up once she heard the water running.  The shower was a 
freestanding pipe in the corner with a massage shower head on a 
hose.  A tile sill provided a shallow basin around the drain.  Karen 
was captivated by the radiant smile which Dena sported as she soaped 
a washcloth.  Invigorated by the very scent of the lathered mint 
soap as she approached, Karen slipped into the steamy shower.
     Karen raised her arms and intertwined her fingers behind her 
head while Dena began walking around her, rinsing her with the 
needle spray hot water.  When Dena hung the shower head on the pipe 
Karen turned to direct the massaging water on her shoulders and 
upper back.  Dena knelt and eased Karen's legs apart.  She gently 
yet thoroughly washed the blushing snatch with the stimulating soap.
     Dena turned off the shower and patted a large fluffy towel 
against Karen's lightly freckled skin, drying her completely.  The 
two women hugged warmly before returning to Karen's clothes and a 
final smoke before Karen dressed and left for the swimming pool.



     Roger Wilco had all the equipment set up and tested at the safe 
house before Karen arrived late in the evening.  They awaited the 
cabal contact who was to direct the signoff mission of the zeppelin.  
Hedda Steam was an old friend of Karen's, but Roger only knew her 
from construction review meetings.
     Roger answered the knock at the door.  The raven-haired Amerind 
was as beautiful, and as businesslike, as ever.  Roger led her to 
the back bedroom where the computers and radios were arrayed.  Karen 
and Hedda embraced warmly and pecked each others cheeks.  Karen 
offered the first hit of red-haired sinse to Hedda, who obliged by 
lighting the bong and drawing deeply.  After several passes of the 
pipe, the three were relaxed and ready.
     The mischief was about to begin.  Karen and Hedda had watched 
Roger transmit the flight instructions that had allowed the zeppelin 
to shadow the formation of six Bell 206 utility helicopters.
     With several keystrokes, Roger selected the radio navaids to be 
jammed.  It was no small coincidence that the formation was 
currently relying on them for navigation.  With a press of the 
RETURN key, programming was uploaded to the special pod which was 
attached to the zeppelin.
     The chopper pilots became concerned when red flags started to 
extend into the faces of their radio navigation instruments.  They 
switched through the various VOR frequencies available to them and 
found the same static everywhere.
     The cabal mission outline had optimistically projected that the 
malathion sprayers would abort their mission and return to base once 
they could no longer rely on absolute positioning.  That hope was 
shattered when the lead pilot ordered continuing on visual.  
"Charlie Mike", he'd called on the radio as he began the final turn,  
leading the legal urban aerial poisoning of sleeping families.
     Hedda nodded and Roger selected and transmitted another 
program.  The zeppelin began forging the signals returned by the 
altitude-encoding radar transponders of the formation.  Roger, 
Hedda, and Karen waited a tense few minutes, listening for trouble.  
When none came, Hedda nodded again and Roger sent an initiating 
signal.  
     In an instant, the helicopters all appeared to have been 
hijacked.  The air traffic controllers saw the assigned squawk codes 
turn to 7500 in one sweep of the interrogating radar beam.
     The nightmare was only starting for the controllers.  Their 
calls weren't heard or returned by the formation.  The pilots were 
apparently getting somewhat edgy about the loss of communication as 
well.  Unable to communicate with one another, the pilots broke 
formation according to contingency plan.
     Once the formation began breaking up, the zeppelin changed the 
forged squawk codes to 7700; emergency.  The encoded altitude was 
rapidly decreased until the signal was completely blanked.  The 
controllers believed that the choppers had crashed and began 
responding accordingly.
     Roger transmitted the final program.  The zeppelin ceased all 
radio interference and turned to its departure path; a secure cabal-
operated landing zone waited in the desert.  The turbofan-powered 
zeppelin slipped away, its anechoic coating hiding it from the radar 
below and above, where the alerted interceptors snooped.
     Roger, Karen, and Hedda were almost rolling on the floor in 
laughter from the conversations between the malathion sprayers and 
the air traffic controllers.  It was going to be a very late night 
for these lackeys of agribiz.




                       The Third Adventure

                      By Jim and Meg Norris

                         January 7, 1991



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The autumn rainstorm in Arkham was the chill drizzle in Boston 
that delayed Karen's connection to Atlanta for hours.
     In her faded Levis and a light blue tee, Karen Eliot was 
hardly outstanding among the business women rushing to and fro in 
the passenger concourse; at least in terms of wardrobe.  Her 
bright green eyes and flaming locks were enchanting.  With no 
makeup but lip gloss, her gentle beauty radiated warmth.
     Within moments of finishing the action/adventure novel Karen 
felt the creep of incipient boredom.  Tired also of endlessly 
listening to the ten cassettes that she carried, she clicked the 
walkman off.
     Karen slipped her paperback and walkman into her backpack.  
Noting that the departure board still announced delay, she set out 
for the lounge.
     Not particularly interested in rebuffing pickups, Karen 
steered for a table where several women drank boisterously.  She 
fit right in with the Marines who were swapping stories.  Karen 
loved their "There I was..." yarns.  She drank several rounds with 
the service bitches before her turn to regale them with wicked 
tales of bobbing and weaving as a consultant.  Karen sported a 
nice glow when her flight was announced.  She quickly swapped 
sounds with the corporals before heading for her plane.
     The boarding crew apologized for the lousy weather that 
prevailed along the eastern seaboard.  They didn't apologize for 
the sardine-can conditions in the little airliner.  Apparently 
most of Karen's ninety-some fellow passengers suffered from 
advanced B.O.  Disembarking in Atlanta occurred not a moment too 
soon.
     Although she'd missed the flight to Los Angeles, her mixed 
luck held.  She was accommodated on another L.A. flight that had 
been delayed by a squall line.
     Karen sat at a midships port-side window in the TriStar.  The 
air conditioning, which was effective for nearly four hundred 
sweating bodies, overwhelmed the mere handful of travelers seated 
within Karen's sight.
     Karen set her chess computer aside, marveling that the 
manufacturer had the guts to rate it at 2100.  Diversions finally 
exhausted, she prepared to consider her pressing problems.
Pretending to sleep would keep her meditation undisturbed while 
the music on the tape rolled.
     She fumed at the gall of the advisory committee.  She would 
not be allowed to complete her grad work at Miskatonic University 
if she elected to take leave and study under a shaman.  The head 
battle-axe raised the specter of full employment for ghostbusters. 
To add insult to injury, they pointedly suggested that she work 
out her conflicted loyalties during Halloween break.
     Her coven, which had arranged her acceptance at Miskatonic U, 
expected her to complete her studies there.  Even so, she wondered 
if the High Priestess would support her thesis on eigenstate 
measurement/selection.  Karen didn't want to kindle the arguments 
between the old wicca and the young reality hackers.
     Drew Blood, her working partner, and she were to take on 
another layer of interface metaphor.  The first layer, which 
supported her status as an adept, had been installed under 
hypnosis years earlier.  The manual documented the keyphrase 
'will, skill, tools' which defined and invoked the effect. Karen's 
only upgrade, 'improvise, adapt, overcome', was barely a year old.  
>From her reading of the manual on the new upgrade, 'simplicity, 
sincerity, serenity', Karen wondered if a serious mistake had been 
made.  The documentation had no information relating to how the 
upgrade would be personally useful.  Although the coven approved 
the change of emphasis from individual goals to universal goals, 
Karen bristled.  Her upcoming Samhain initiation, dependent on the 
new upgrade, seemed to emphasize commitment and service.
     Karen had met Mark Featherstone while doing field work in 
southern New Mexico.  They were both collecting mescal, but for 
different reasons.  Featherstone proved expert at locating and 
identifying many specimens of the spineless globe-shaped cactus 
for her.  Karen found that his suggestions about which buttonlike 
tubercles to collect were based on extensive pharmacologic 
scholarship.  Although the white woman and Amerind shaman were 
worlds apart, a mutual respect developed and matured over the 
years.  As the only person that she knw outside the Miskatonic 
clique with parallel knowledge, his perspective was important to 
Karen.  His offer to clarify some baffling aspects of her studies 
was uncharacteristily forthcoming and invaluable.
     Karen slept through dinner service.  She felt the landing 
gear drop and was fully awakened by the flap extention during the 
final approach over Inglewood.

Drew Blood listened to the interminable recording about the white 
zone as he waited curb-side at the terminal.  The sidelong glances 
from the parking patrol didn't bother Drew; he knew Karen as a 
prudent air traveler.  He counted on her practice of toting only 
carry-on luggage.
     Karen brightened when she saw Drew waiting for her in the 
ugly beige heartbeat of America.  Although she ascribed his 
phenomenol ability to meet her to his precise divination, a simple 
telephone call to the airline sufficed on this occassion.
     Following a warm hug and a quick kiss, Drew swung into 
traffic.  He had avoided eating to have dinner with Karen.  When 
the subject came up, he was prepared, "Beef fajitas with jalapeno 
cornbread or Tom Yum Goong?"   Without hesitation, Karen proposed 
the hot and sour shrimp soup.  The marvelous combination of tender 
shrimp floating in a rich broth, liberally spiced with chillies 
and tangy with lemon grass, lime juice and citrus leaves was 
Karen's favorite, as Drew well knew.
     Drew showed Karen around the walkup above the misnamed five-
and-dime which was only minutes from the airport.  "It's mostly an 
excuse for the BBS", he admitted.  Sitting on the top shelf in a 
closet was a computer, a hard disk, and two modems.  Karen noted 
the lack of a monitor and keyboard, assuming that Drew used a 
laptop on one of the serial ports to do his sysop thing.  The 
remainder of the closet was stuffed with earthquake supplies.
     The motion sensors and the demon dialer enhanced the 
functional, yet unlived-in quality common to safe houses.
     Karen relaxed in the small living room following Drew's tour 
of the flat.  The expectant look on her face prompted Drew to 
proffer the package that he'd picked up on his way to the airport.  
Karen opened the pharmacy sack and extracted the bronchial 
inhaler.  The asthma prescription appeared genuine, but she knew 
better.  The mouthpiece in place, Karen pressed the canister into 
the base.  She inhaled deeply as the fine spray was discharged.  
Karen's initial suspicion that she hadn't gotten a hit was 
dispelled by a coughing fit.  Drew declined her motioned offer.  
Thoroughly stoned, Karen rested the inhaler on the empty coffee 
table.
     Unwilling to succumb to lethargy, Karen arose and made for 
the kitchen.  Drew had all the materials on hand for either meal, 
even the seemingly hard-to-find fresh lemon grass.  The sixers of 
Singha and Dosxx in the fridge brightened Karen further.  They 
quickly agreed on the division of labor and began preparing 
dinner.
     Drew juiced two small limes as Karen laid out vegetables from 
the crisper.  She cut zest from the rind when he was through.  
Waiting for her to open up about their predicament, he heated a 
small amount of oil in a saucepan.
     "It's an issue of choice to me", Karen began.  Drew accepted 
the emphasis she applied, chopping lemon grass to one inch 
lengths.  "How somebody else could know what's best for me boggles 
my mind.  To coerce me into obedience is one thing, but the most 
unkind cut of all is to be expected to agree and like it."
     Drew dropped shrimp shells into the hot oil, watching for 
them to turn pink, listening to Karen continue.  "Who should 
determine what I learn?", she asked while vigorously chopping 
several green onions.  "Me!", she concluded, looking to Drew who 
was slivering green and red chillies.
     "You accepted their role in your development", Drew reminded 
her as he stirred the mixture of chicken stock, salt, lemon grass, 
citrus leaves, lime rind, and green chillies in the saucepan.  
"Their guidance has been good.  Perhaps the older, wiser heads do 
have a good reason", he suggested.
     Karen watched Drew cover and set the saucepan to simmer after 
bringing it to a boil.  "If they do have a good reason, and it's 
wrong for me, it's no skin off their asses", she observed.
     "Where else are you going to study the _Necronomicon_?".
     "I don't know Drew, but I draw the line at dogmatic 
conformity.  'What is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good - need 
we ask anyone to tell us these things", Karen quoted.  "Excuse me. 
I'm going to get a shower".
     After luxuriating under the hot fingers of the shower 
massage, Karen rejoined Drew, who was busy straining the soup 
through a sieve.  "What about you Drew", she asked, approaching 
him.  "What do you want to do?"
     Drew returned the mix to the saucepan and brought it to a 
boil.  "My path is not dictated by another, nor is it dependent", 
he said as he added the shrimp and cooked them for several minutes 
in the stock.  "The university administration suffers from an 
inherent flaw of Authority: 'The company takes what the company 
wants and nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground'.  This 
isn't even personal.  It's just rules."
     After reducing the heat, Drew added fish sauce and lime juice 
to the simmering soup.  He stirred it and immediately removed it 
from the heat.  "Our thesis is a collaboration", Karen reminded 
him.  "What'll you do?", she asked as Drew retrieved their beers 
from the fridge.
     Karen poured the soup in a tureen.  Drew sprinkled it with 
red chillies, coriander leaves, and green onions as he replied.  
"I've held back some work on multidimensionality.  Maybe that and 
some fresh ideas on chaos.  Perhaps the attenuation of magic.  I'm 
not sure, but it's not a problem.  I wonder if the University of 
California has room for a magician in its Interrelation of 
Conceptual Structures program?"
     Karen carried the tureen to the table, serving the soup 
piping hot.  Drew lit the candle and they seated themselves.  By 
long convention the two observed a companionable silence as they 
dined.
     After dinner Drew revealed the dessert that he'd gotten while 
at the Thai market.  Sticky rice, coconut milk, and banana strips 
were wrapped within banana leaves.  Instead of steaming the 
delights, Drew 'waved them while he and Karen carried the dishes 
from the small dining area to the sink.
     Drew considered how to breach the subject of the impending 
upgrade to their interface metaphors as the fragrant Khaw Tom Pud 
cooled.  Karen had benefited greatly from personal control of her 
cognitive faculties as if they were software.  She was naturally 
reluctant to share that control; even with the people who had made 
it possible.
     "Are you ready for the shrink shop?" asked Drew jocularly.  
He wasn't fond of the unbecoming appelation for the wetware techs, 
but aimed to draw Karen out.
     "No.  I'm really uncertain about it.  It doesn't sound like 
such a good idea to me."
     "What's the hangup?"
     "Their hands on my reins."
     "Does loyalty influence you?  Have they given you reason for 
mistrust?"   
     Karen quoted Thomas Paine.  "Let them call me rebel and 
welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the 
misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..." 
     "It's not like you haven't been through this before."
     "Can we be sure that after this upgrade we'll be inclined 
toward the same selfish perspective in considering future 
upgrades?"
     "Have you considered favorable aspects?"  Drew asked.
     "Frankly, no.  Maybe Madge and Tar can fill that area in."
     Drew dropped the subject and concentrated on washing the 
dishes and tidying the kitchen while Karen got stoned and watched 
headline news.
     Karen and Drew, according to a fond habit, read in bed until 
sleepy.  Drew set his engineering manual aside in mere minutes.  
He rested undisturbed as Karen turned and twisted her way through 
the thriller that gripped her attention.
     Karen dropped the novel to the floor and extinguished the dim 
headboard lamp.  She spooned in behind Drew, pressing herself into 
him and resting her head on the pillow beside his.  She shared his 
warmth, feeling his slow and even breathing beside her.
     Unable to find sleep through ordinary methods, Karen let 
herself drift, recalling among other things her association with 
Drew.
     She and Drew had first crossed paths in their final year of 
high school.  In a case that had elicited support from the ACLU, 
the school administration had suppressed a news story in the 
school newspaper.  Karen's investigation of corruption in an 
alderman's office was explosive.  Her story was backed up by 
Drew's second-story work which gained solid evidence.  The cabal 
didn't care that the school won; it exploited the opportunity by 
awarding Karen and Drew college scholarships.
     The cabal extended a Segretti Fellowship to Drew for altering 
the circuitry of E-Meters at the Church of Scientology during 
black-bag snoops.  His discoveries in the Guardian's Office had 
been the springboard to Karen's research into the methods utilized 
to penetrate and manipulate the FBI.  Karen found the large cash 
payment for that particular report to be very useful.
     Karen's reminiscences turned to the Pirate Fucking Radio 
project. The cabal had needed volume cost reductions on zeppelin 
production.  Drew presented the proposal and Karen presented the 
plan.  Fidel Castro jumped at the chance to broadcast The Voice of 
Jose Marti into the American west coast radio/television market.  
The cost of replacing the unmanned broadcast zeppelins which were 
destroyed by federal forces was well below revenues.  Lack of 
regulation and taxes did the rest.  Drew and Karen had received 
credit for recouping in spades the autonomous aircraft's 
development cost.

Karen slipped lightly from bed and shouldered her backpack which 
she always kept bedside.  She adjourned to living room where she 
could consult her cards.
     Karen spread a large silk scarf on the floor and sat cross-
legged before it.  She first selected the Major Arcana from her 
Wonderland tarot deck.  She set the remaining cards aside on the 
scarf.
     Images and bits of her concern floated and whirled without 
direction as she shuffled the twenty-two trumps.
     She laid out ten cards in a standard cross pattern and sat 
for several minutes considering the meanings conveyed by the 
reading.
     The Fool, in the position to indicate forthcoming influences, 
was the image of a spirit totally free, courageously leaping into 
some new phase of life.  Death, placed to indicate her present 
situation, signified a time of change.  The Sun, as a final 
outcome, described happiness and a great sense of the beauty of 
life.  Karen took these cards to mean that the successful 
transition, far from being in question, was in progress.
     The Hermit, positioned to indicate her previous influences, 
bespoke her recent withdrawal for intense study.  The High 
Priestess, in a position to reveal how other people viewed Karen, 
showed that they accepted her inner wisdom and strong intuition.  
The Hanged Man, as a measure of her hopes and fears, addressed 
Karen's antipathy to loosing her educational investment.  Karen 
accepted these cards as confirming the context of her inquiry.
     The Magician, describing what Karen was experiencing,  
illustrated the creator in the act of creation, and additionally 
a shaman or shamanism.  The Devil, positioned to indicate the 
obstacles that crossed the Magician, adequately described Karen's 
feeling of being chained to controlling obsessions.  Together, 
these cards defined the conflict for Karen.
     The Hierophant, in position to indicate what was really 
behind the surface situation, represented education in general, 
and her own inner sense of direction.
     The Empress, positioned to express what was in plain sight, 
puzzled Karen.  The usual meaning of a mother figure didn't seem 
to fit.  The card depicted the knitting Sheep gliding along in a 
little boat.  Karen recalled the episode from _Through The Looking 
Glass_.  The Sheep was the proprietress of an odd shop with all 
manner of curious things.  When Alice became confused by the vast 
array of wares, the Sheep's shop transformed.  Alice found herself 
in the boat with the Sheep, rowing with knitting needles on the 
queer water.  The Sheep finally urged Alice to make up her mind 
after indulging Alice's curiosity at length.  The egg that Alice 
eventually bought from the Sheep became Humpty Dumpty.  It was 
Humpty Dumpty who was poised atop the wall in The Sun, a card of 
satisfaction, accomplishment, and success - the card which in this 
case indicated the culmination and results of all the influences 
revealed by the other cards.
     Karen wrapped her cards within the scarf and stowed them 
within the little pouch in her backpack.  With her mind at ease, 
she slipped back to bed.  Drew absentmindedly put an arm around 
her, drawing her close.  Karen subvocalized a post-hypnotic 
suggestion to arise relaxed and refreshed, before drifting off to 
a sound and restful sleep.

Karen was still sleeping when Drew awoke to the early morning 
light with a woody.  The exquisite shape of her tits was neither 
diminished by reclining, nor obscured by her T-shirt.  Drew 
considered her flat belly and shapely legs concealed by the sheet.  
Inspired, and knowing how Karen appreciated a wake-up fuck, he 
proceeded to slowly arose her.
     Drew tenderly cupped a pert breast and kissed Karen's neck.  
The low moan was encouraging.  He gently manipulated the firm 
flesh.  Once the nip came up he rolled it between thumb and 
forefinger.  With a final squeeze, Drew released Karen's breast 
and rested his hand on her pubic mound.
     He softly rubbed her downy pubes through the bikini.  Karen 
rolled her hips slightly and murmured approval.  Slipping beneath 
the elastic band, Drew rubbed her thickening pad with his 
fingernails.  At the merest touch to her sparsely furred puffy 
lips, Karen eased her legs apart.  Drew's hardon throbbed as he 
massaged Karen's pussy through the dampenng fabric.  When he 
pushed the crotch aside and lay his fingers along her slit, he was 
met with a little shudder and a more insistent moan.
     With a finger along either side of the long hood, Drew felt 
the hard clit within.  His gentle manipulations were met by the 
little smacking sounds of a well-lubed cunt.
     Repositioning himself, Drew tugged at Karen's panties as she 
daintily raised her hips to help him remove them.  Karen held the 
sheet up with one hand so that Drew could breath and with the 
other she pushed his face into her crotch.  Drew's beard stubble 
chaffed her thighs as she gently crossed her ankles, completing 
the loose scissor lock on his willing head.
     Supported by his elbows, Drew massaged Karen's engorged outer 
lips with his forefingers.  He nibbled and tugged her fleshy inner 
lips before getting down to serious licking.
     Drew ran his tongue the length of Karen's slit, occasionally 
pushing deep into her hole or tickling her extended clitty.  
Karen's rhythmically gyrating hips and inarticulate moans coaxed 
him onward.
     He probed her drenched vagina with one thumb and rubbed her 
asshole with the other as his tongue variously flicked or rubbed 
her turgid clitoris.
     Karen approached orgasm several times, but Drew would change 
his stimulation to deny her.  When she could stand it no more, she 
squeezed his head playfully between her thighs.  Drew increased 
the tempo of his licking, concentrating on her clit.  With pushing 
and screwing motions, he massaged the roughly textured walls of 
her cunt with an index finger.
     Drew synchronized his efforts as Karen's breathing became 
rapid and shallow.  Karen arched her back and came with a tremble, 
clenching Drew's finger repeatedly with diminishing force.
     Karen took only an an instant to select a position.  She 
wanted to be ballsy in the upcoming discussions.  Being on top 
would encourage a more active role, a sense of superiority, a  
feeling of free movement, and a sense of doing whatever she 
wished.  Drew was a real bonus for face-to-face fucking; he would 
read her face and express, he had beautiful brown eyes, and he 
could kiss.  Best of all, he had the cock discipline for lap 
fucking.  "May I sit in your lap, love?" she asked.
     Drew sat facing Karen with his legs apart, enthusiasm evident 
from his smile and throbbing penis.  His answer was eagerly 
outstretched arms.
     Karen snuggled in close to Drew, with her legs over his and 
behind him.  She insured that they were both comfortable, without 
undue stress on their limbs.  With her nose alongside Drew's, 
Karen looked deeply into his eyes as they embraced.  The warmth 
that she saw said 'friend' and more.
     She was excited by her musk on his mouth while their skillful 
tongues wrestled playfully.  The warm and creamy feeling 
intensified with Drew's hot cock against her belly and his lightly 
haired chest pressing her tits.
     Karen eased back and grasped the base of Drew's dick.   
Moisture glistened on the head before she began rubbing her pussy 
with it.  She moved closer, angling her hips up.  With each stroke 
of his dick along her wet slit, Karen would tantalize Drew by 
squeezing the head lightly with her snatch, then rub him up and 
around her extended clit.
     Drew stifled his desire to push into Karen, awaiting the 
delicious torture of her ultra-slow entry.  Instead, he hugged her 
warmly, one arm around her waist and lower back, the other just 
below her shoulders.
     Karen tightly clenched her vagina as she rested more and more 
of her weight on Drew's cock.  With only the slightest relaxation 
she gradually slid down Drew's meaty pole, accompanied by 
something between a sigh and a moan.
     Once she was filled with Drew's hot hardness, Karen hungrily 
joined with him in a deep and passionate kiss that was destined to 
occupy them for the duration.
     Karen pulled herself taut to afford Drew maximum stimulation 
with only slight movement.  She used calculated pelvic movements 
of yaw, pitch, and roll to accentuate her motion along the length 
of his shaft.
     Karen built their excitement to all-encompassing and 
nearly explosive before easing slightly, relaxing briefly with 
Drew's dick buried in her to the hilt.
     Karen eased back a little, raising herself and locking his 
bulbous dick head against her G-spot.  She began a serpentine 
massage of his penis with her vaginal muscles, deliciously 
stimulating their most erogenous flesh.
     Karen felt Drew's impending orgasm as his balls drew tight in 
the palm of her hand and his breathing became insistent.  She 
brought herself to the edge and kicked off the simultaneous 
explosion.
     Drew forcefully pumped his load deep into Karen's quivering 
cunt.  Karen's orgasm expelled a copious fluid discharge which 
mixed with Drew's semen and drained over his softening cock, 
drenching the bed.
     Karen broke the deep kiss and snuggled against Drew, pulling 
herself to him, nestling her head against his neck.  Their frantic 
heartbeats and ragged breathing normalized during their long 
embrace.  The cooling wet spot under them encouraged an effort to 
dry off with a fluffy towel which Drew had thoughtfully provided.
     Following a brief shower, Karen and Drew breakfasted on 
heuvos rancheros at a nearby taquiera.  It was on the walk back 
that Drew excused himself until late afternoon to pursue personal 
business.
     Karen welcomed the opportunity to relax.  Unused to the slack 
time in her study schedule, she made the best of it; loafing 
about, reading a novel that Drew had left on his nightstand.
     By mid-afternoon Karen was eager for something more active.  
It struck her as an ideal time to practice her exercises.

Karen's pulse quickened as she considered the upcoming delight.  
She stepped lightly, considering Fizzlebot's purple egg.  As far 
as it was from being a simple stone, it was no closer to being a 
jewel.
     Karen had worked briefly with the independent inventor to 
develop an aerogel from sand which the coven provided.  The wispy, 
nearly transparent solid was extremely porous, with only three or 
four times the density of dry air.  Fizzlebot nicknamed the high-
strength, ultralight stuff 'purple fuzzle'.  His guess that the 
fuzzle was used to stabilize fusion fuels under laser blast 
inspired his fruitless experiments with the surplus aerogel.  He 
presented Karen with a brilliant violet ovoid as a souvenir.  
     Karen undressed, tossing her clothes in a pile next to her 
backpack on the bedroom floor.  She sat on the edge of the bed, 
legs apart, with her feet flat on the floor.
     Karen's fingertips barely touched the skin around her nipples 
as she gently rotated them very slowly in outward circular 
motions.  Shortly, she responded to the invigorating stimulation, 
playing with the firm fluid movement of her breasts.
     Warmth spread throughout her genitals, puffing her mound and 
lightly-haired outer lips.  Karen kneaded the softness of her 
pussy while she maintained the gentle manipulation of her breasts, 
occasionally twisting or tweaking a sensitive nip.
     Her wattled inner labia were dusky pink, striated with tan.  
As her sexual energy built, they felt more flush and moist, and 
looked redder.  Karen smeared the abundant juices forming at her 
hole over the fleshy lips.
     Karen began a rhythmic pressure against the hood of her clit 
with a single fingertip.  Fully engorged, it poked from beneath 
the hood.  She directed the concentration and flow of her 
developing sexual energy, bringing it to a shuddering orgasm and 
an instant of transcendence.
     Karen withdrew the egg from a pouch in her backpack.  Eugene 
Fizzlebot couldn't explain why it radiated warmth.  As for the 
pleasure of contact with it, Fizzlebot mumbled something about 
piezoelectricity, but didn't even seem very convinced about it 
himself.
     She stood and assumed the practice stance; her feet 
shoulders' width apart and firmly grounded, ankles and knees bent, 
groin folded, spine and neck in alignment.
     She splayed her succulent lips with the fingers of one hand 
and eased the egg into her vagina, wider end first.  By isolating 
and contracting her external vaginal orifice tightly, she grasped 
the egg and relished the pleasant feelings from the it before 
beginning to move it with her internal musculature.
     The movement up and down her vagina was, as always, the 
easiest.  Karen clenched, raising the egg slightly, then holding 
it for a moment, before relaxing enough to allow the egg to 
descend to the original position.  She completed half a dozen slow 
repetitions of the exercise, regulating the squeezing to her 
inhalations.
     Karen drew the egg up in front f her cervix and held it 
there before beginning the more challenging lateral exercises.  
She moved the egg from side to side several times as well as 
tilting it from top to bottom.  After half a dozen full movement 
repetitions of the exercise, she relaxed and allowed the egg to 
descend.
     Satisfied with herself, Karen expelled the egg from her cunt 
and wiped it clean before replacing it within its pouch.  She 
rested briefly with the palm of her hand on her warm snatch, 
drawing strength from her workout.

Karen was ready to leave when Drew arrived, which was convenient 
because he had parked in metered street-side parking.  She was 
somewhat surprised about the little red Lotus which Drew was 
using.  His story was that he was evaluating the autos pre-
production systems.
     In about half an hour Drew was off the freeway and into the 
winding canyon country.  While the ride was much smoother than 
Karen was used to in a sportster, the cornering roll was all but 
non-existent.  Four-wheel power and active suspension almost 
entirely eliminated slip.
     Drew routinely entered the curves at around three times the 
posted speed, practically standing on the four-wheel antilock 
brakes in the final moments of the approach.  The power-shift 
manual gear box thumped heavily an instant before the brutal 
acceleration announced the corner exit at multiples of the speed 
limit.
     Once established on the final straightaway, Drew opened the 
throttle all the way.  When the tach indicated red-line revs, he 
shifted into neutral and idled the engine.  They coasted the last 
mile or so to the unpaved turnoff.
     Madge Nation, and her husband Tar Nation lived in the ranch-
style house a couple miles down the well-maintained gravel road.  
Madge was in the driveway when Karen and Drew arrived at the head 
of a rooster tail of rising dust.
     Madge greeted her guests and led them around back and down 
the path to the sweat lodge.
     The domed, one-room structure was crafted from a dozen 
willows.  Timbers demarked the cardinal and minor compass points.
     Half a dozen paces from the lodge, Tar tended rock loaves on 
a metal grill.  With hands protected by heavy padded gloves he 
turned the hot rocks above low blue flames.  He waved as they 
approached.
     Madge stopped at the gazebo which had been fashioned entirely 
within the interlocking branches of five bushy trees.  Benches, 
hooks, and baskets were available for clothing and personal 
articles.
     Madge removed her robe.  Drew appreciated her small breasts 
with pale and outstanding nips and her diminutively trimmed 
platinum bush as she stowed the robe and pulled the bong from a 
clever niche.  She handed it to Karen, who was already down to her 
matching black lace bra and panties.  Karen took a couple of long 
hits as she appreciated Drew disrobing.  
     Goose flesh started to form about the time Madge, Karen, and 
Drew felt stoned and longed for the warmth of the lodge.  Tar 
joined them for a hit once he had finished transferring the hot 
rocks to a ceramic pedestal in the sweat lodge.  Tar secured the 
bong and led his friends down the path.
     Tar held open the heavy flaps of thick hide which were draped 
over the arched doorway of the hut.
     Madge waited until everybody was comfortable and relaxed 
before breaking the silence.  She spoke in a formal tone.  "Most 
people demand behavioral controls imposed by an authority 
structure.  Tar and I empathize with your rejection of external 
direction."  She paused for a moment before continuing.  "Helen 
Gone argued against the university because their position stemmed 
from convenience of administration."
     Karen leaned forward and lay a sage sprig on the hot rocks.  
She considered the implications that arose from the High Priestess 
being personally involved.  The cup of water that she poured over 
the sage on the rocks disappeared in a quick bubbling and hissing.
     Tar continued as the aromatic vapor diffused.  "We have good 
news and bad news", he joked.  "Which would you like first?"
     "Bad", Drew asked simply.
     "Karen, you won't be awarded your degree if you insist on 
having your way.  Same for you, Drew, if you stick with Karen."  
     Drew added several cedar chips to the rocks and trickled 
water over them.  He pondered this, awaiting the good news as the 
redolent vapor rose from the rocks.
     "You will, however, be allowed to stay on and continue your 
studies to your satisfaction," Tar said and then waited.
     Karen exhaled slowly.  "Well", she began and paused.  "That's 
awfully damn nice of them."
     "Would you like the good news?", Tar teased.
     "I could use some."
     "Here," Tar said, offering Karen and Drew their choice of 
trippers.
     The glass tubes, each enclosing a vaporizing wire that was 
coated with designer halucinogen, were the keys to Miskatonic U's 
ex nihilo lab and its gates.
     Tar was the first to press the firing stud on the handle of 
his tripper.  With a pop and a bluish-white flash, a cloud formed 
within the tube.  "There's something I'd like to show you," he 
said, and sucked the vapor through a semipermeable membrane in one 
end of the tube.
     Karen, Drew, and Madge emulated Tar's example.  The massive 
L+ doses hit some before others.  They waited and the shared 
environment formed; cold and dreary, and suggesting ancient 
enmity.
     Madge promised a short walk and all set off.  Concealed 
within the thick fog which surrounded them, giant arthropod 
monsters waited.  Vaguely insectiod (or occasionally aracnid, 
crustacean, and myriapod), they had eviscerating hooks, 
decapitating pincers, barbed impaling stalks, bad breath, and bug 
eyes.  And that was the males.  The females also had armor-
piercing ovipositors not unlike scorpion tails.
       Arriving at the gate area, Karen and Drew assumed a 
defensive parameter while Madge and Tar worked at dilating the 
gate.
     Originally armed with vorpal swords, Karen and Drew were 
prepared to face the Jabberwock itself.  However, when the 
rattling chitin and pungent presence encircled them, they 
reconsidered.  Karen conjured a full-auto, belt-fed shotgun.  She 
used plastic ball bugshot for the spectacular effect it had 
against exoskeletons.  (Losing much of their energy penetrating 
the shell, the balls shredded internal organs as they ricochetted 
around inside.)  Drew muscled a small rotary-barrel cannon which 
used conventional warloads.
     Tar and Madge had succeeded in tagging the gate with a dayglo 
border, but attempts to tease it open were in vain.
     When the fog shifted it revealed the massed and closing 
terrors, most dripping slime or venom.  Without hesitation, Karen 
and Drew opened fire, weaving a curtain of murderous projectiles 
to the staccato thunder of their automatic weapons.  They adroitly 
avoided each others crossfire and ammunition belts.  When they 
ceased firing, drifting cordite odor mixed with the humid charnel 
stench.  Antennae and legs attached to broken carapace jerked 
mindlessly.  Ichor pooled among the shattered bodies and spent 
cartridges all aroundtthem.  Meanwhile, the gate had opened under 
Madge's gentle ministrations.
     Madge and Tar first stepped into the uniform gray beyond the 
gate and disappeared.  Drew waited for Karen to file through.  The 
first step was easy, but a resistance pressed back against her.  
She had to redouble her efforts several times to penetrate the 
surface tension.  Once she began to clear the gate, Karen felt the 
numb of nulled sensorium.  She'd been warned about the shocking 
emptiness, yet panic still nipped at her heels.

Karen's second step brought her through the gate.  The cold 
flagstone floor surprised her as an unexpected stair might.  Her 
ears popped as she swallowed the lump in her throat.  Regaining 
her composure, Karen took stock of her surroundings.
     Fluorescent fixtures hung at regular intervals from the high 
ceiling.  Movable partitions divided the immense room. 
     Karen watched the dayglo border of the gate fade, and with it 
the gray fog beyond.
     Madge and Tar had already donned heavy terry robes and 
slippers.  The crisp chill imparted to the room by the thick stone 
walls inspired Karen and Drew to follow suit.
     Madge opened the heavy drapes before the tall doors, lighting 
the large chamber with brilliant afternoon sunshine.  Tar opened 
the glass doors and stepped out on a small semicircular balcony.  
"Welcome to Amber," he announced with a low bow and a gesture 
which took in the city below.    
     Just outside, gardeners dressed in Renaissance-era clothing 
tended an area with familiar flowers, trees, and shrubs.  Looking 
about, Karen observed that she was in a castle built on the 
shoulder of a mountain.  Above and behind her, ponderosa and blue 
spruce made up the most of the thick tree life.  Below, the 
balcony overlooked the picturesque city of Amber and the 
glittering harbor.
     Houses of stone, brick, or wood, an occasional whitewashed 
plastered  wall, the odd thatched roof, and the rare stone mansion 
dominated the view of the eastern portion of the city.  The 
southernmost part of the city merged with the trees that led 
eventually into the forest and out into the countryside.
     Tar handed a pair of binoculars to Karen and began to 
describe the predominantly commercial western section of Amber.  
"See that wide cobblestone street that swings southeastwards and 
then eastwards, marking the boundaries of the city?" Tar asked.
Without waiting, he carried on.  "That's the Main Concourse.  It's 
the place of business for most Amber merchants".  Karen looked at 
the busy shops, cafes, and restaurants; deals being made, goods 
being purchased, and merchants trying to shout their 
advertisements.
     Karen handed the binox to Drew as Tar described the 
fascinating activity in the harbor.  "The port area is unsafe, 
unsavory, and dangerous.  Harbor Road gives way to Death Alley 
over there," he said, pointing.
     Drew scrutinized the industrious port.  Barges full of wares 
were bustling between warehouses both large and small, and between 
the docks which dotted the harbor.  Several barks were being 
unloaded.  Sailors on one large schooner were rigging staysails 
off the mizzenmast.
     Madge joined her friends on the balcony.  She handed them 
white metallic cards, upon which she had written their names in 
exquisite calligraphy.  The flip side of the cards was devoted to 
the standard glyph for Information Hazards;  the anterior view of 
the human eye, with a seductive spiral fractal within the iris.
     "These security keys will unlock doors with adjacent card 
slots," Madge said.  With emphasis, she continued.  "Don't open 
doors without card readers.  Ever."
     "Just carry them with you," Tar suggested.  "Since you can't 
go anywhere without them."  He dropped his in the pocket of his 
robe.  "Let's take a look around," he said, leading the expedition 
from the balcony.
     "This is the hardware lab," Tar indicated with an 
encompassing gesture.
     "In the northeast corner is the laminar-flow rooms.  The IC 
fab people have diffusion furnaces, chemical vapor deposition 
systems, as well as lithography and etching equipment.  They're 
kept pretty busy making wafers of pirated circuitry.
     "The containment dome next to the lam-flow building houses 
the power kernel, shielding, transformers, and the like.
     "The systems prototypers use most of the rest of the layout.  
Currently, they're turning out 32-bit microprocessor-based 
computers.  They're rack-mounted and ugly as hell, but with the 
different semiconductors, they run at ten times the clock 
frequencies you can do back home."
     Arriving at the armored door, Tar pushed his card into the 
reader.  The powered door slid slowly into its pocket within the 
reinforced wall, and closed heavily behind them.
     The group followed Tar down a thoroughly featureless hallway.  
Just to the left of the grand staircase, they used the servants' 
stairway in the northwest corner of the castle.  Tar led his 
friends down two flights of stairs.  Many of the doors which were 
immediately visible on the second floor had card locks.
     Madge led the coterie down another long hall to a pair of 
double doors.  The doors swung inward after the presentation of 
her card, and they entered the sparsely furnished library.
     Warm sunlight suffused the library through the four inset, 
floor-to-ceiling windows along the west side of the room.
     "Usually this is a place of relaxation and study for members 
of the royal family," Tar stated.  "Generally, however, they avoid 
us.  It is strongly suggested that we reciprocate."  Karen 
recognized the usual response to I-hazards.
     Madge showed them the three tall stacks that extended from 
the north wall and smaller shelves and smaller tables which lined 
the west wall.  A desk sat in the center of the north section, and 
a larger double table sat under the southwest windows.  A 
comfortable sofa and chair sat in front of the banked fire.
     The ubiquitous card key slot was the only clue to the 
decorative false panel in the southwest corner of the library.  
Madge motioned Karen to try her card on the lock.  With a snick, 
the panel eased open enough to pull.  Karen followed Madge up the 
dimly lit stairway to the upper level where her card was again 
necessary.
     As the panel closed behind the women, Tar led Drew to a 
section devoted to Shadow Earth.  A computer workstation had the 
Great Books of the Western World on optical disk.  "Merely a quick 
reference," teased Tar.  Nearby, stacks contained complete sets of 
St. Augustine, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, 
Machiavelli, Castiglione, Sidney, Bacon, Ben Johnson, Samuel 
Johnson, Hegel, Heidegger, Newton, Einstein, Pope, Boccaccio, 
Milton, Rabelais, and Virgil.  First editions of seminal works 
from ancient to postmodern took up proximate stacks.
      Madge led Karen along the walkway which extended around the 
perimeter of the upper level.  Tracked ladders reached the highest 
shelves near the ceiling.
     The entrance to the study room was cleverly concealed from 
view below.  As Madge stepped across the threshold a gentle 
bioluminescence lit the small room evenly.  There was barely room 
around te table and chairs to get to the books on the shelves 
along all walls.  The _Necronomicon_, companion volumes, and 
commentaries absorbed Karen's attention.  "I'd bet my postsynaptic 
membranes that the complete Curwen collection of thaumaturgical, 
alchemical, and theological works is here," Karen remarked, 
following Madge from the alcove.
     They passed empty shelves along the walkway before arriving 
at another recess.  In a glass case a single volume lay 
illuminated by a lamp within.  Karen immediately opened the 
unsecured case and removed the _Handbook For The Recently Deceased_.  
She'd long wanted a glance at "The Handbook", or "The Manual" as 
it was sometimes known.  She quickly turned to the intermediate 
interface chapter on haunting to see just how detailed an 
explanation was in fact there.  "It reads like stereo 
instructions," Karen commented as she replaced the volume and 
followed Madge.
     Madge and Karen rejoined Tar and Drew by the large marble 
fireplace on the west wall.  Tar's continuing explanation of the 
library request and procurement system answered Karen's questions 
about the mint condition of the books.  Beyond explanation was the 
posthumous editions section.  She'd seen still-boxed unknown works 
by Brautigan, Hellman, Maugham, Abbey, Steinbeck, and P.K. Dick, 
among others.
     Madge directed the tour of the guest apartments at the north 
end of the second floor.  The hospitable domicile was complete 
with sitting, sleeping, and dining areas as well as a small 
library which seemed devoted to quantum mechanics and associated 
arcana.
     The bedroom reminded Karen of a first-rate residence hotel.
     Drew bounced on the satin sheeted bed which was as 
comfortable as it appeared.  "So, what's the project here?"
     Madge indulged in the luxury of the love seat.  "Software 
development for the Crown.  All the hardware billets are filled."
     Karen sat at the small writing table across from the bed and 
regarded the fresh cut flowers in the crystal vase.  "Yeah?"
     Tar lounged in the chair adjacent to the night stand.  "We're 
building a reality editor."
     "A what?" Karen asked.
     "You know. Cut, paste, add, delete, change. The usual" Madge 
answered.
     "Is this artificial intelligence?" Drew suspiciously 
inquired.
     "Nah," replied Tar.  He continued wryly.  "That's 
specifically prohibited by the contract.  It seems that their 
first attempt resulted in a rogue consciousness."
     "Then how?" Karen wanted to know.
     Madge took up the explanation.  "Limited domain, iterative 
techniques.  Purely procedural code.  Brute fuckin' force.  You 
can hack your way up to speed on the metaprogramming language 
pretty quickly."
     Karen mulled that over.  "What's functional?"
     Madge smiled broadly before answering.  "Oe module.  Fun 
with billboards, bumper-stickers, and graffiti.  You should have 
been here the night that I replaced the text 'to protect and 
serve' with 'tool of the rich man' wherever it occurred on squad 
cars back home."
     With an even bigger grin, Tar mischievously interrupted.  
"Shit hit the fan.  Even a new rule.  No more RE tests on Shadow 
Earth.  Bellona only now, which almost takes the fun out of it," 
he concluded with a wink.
     "What's the hitch?" Drew probed.
     "We want to ensure that expansion of the operating envelope 
doesn't bite us in the ass," Madge responded.  "The next project 
mandate is a 'no tricks' safety module.  Apparently they watch 
Twilight Zone when in Shadow Earth."
     "Anyway," Tar said, "You should sleep on it.  This little 
trick of somatic projection is about to fail.  When it does, you 
will regain consciousness back home.  It's best if you're asleep 
when it happens."
     "How much longer?" Karen inquired.
     "A couple of hours, tops."
     Madge and Tar excused themselves, leaving Karen and Drew 
alone for the first time since their arrival in Amber.
     Karen arose from the small table and joined Drew by the bed.   
"What do you think?" she asked him, doffing her robe. Turning the 
down comforter back, she couldn't discern what kept it from 
sliding off the sheets.
     While fluffing the pillow, Karen noticed the hawk feather 
bound to a chunk of turquoise with a hide band which was lying on 
the sheet.  She stared at the token, her attention captivated.
     "They're playing with a fusion torch," Drew answered as he 
dropped his robe with hers.  "Somebody's gonna get burned," he 
said, following her gaze.  "What do you think?"
     When their eyes met, Karen shook her head fractionally and 
dropped the pillow, covering the token.  "Who could be trusted 
with this thing?  I don't see resolving that issue within the 
context of a safety module."
     Following Karen's apparent lead, Drew dropped the 
conversation and snuggled next to her in the regal bed.
     They rolled to their backs from the warm spoon.  Karen 
initiated an old game for descent to sleep.  She wrapped her 
slender fingers around Drew's limp hose, which began hardening 
immediately.  Karen wanted to fall asleep with Drew still 
throbbing in her fist, before he fell asleep and softened in her 
grasp.  Drew wanted to fall asleep rigid in Karen's hot palm, 
before she fell asleep and her grip failed.
     While usually successful, the technique couldn't overcome 
deep tension.  Karen commenced a standard variation to get the 
game back on track.  She soothingly released Drew's penis and 
cupped his balls, massaging and rolling them within their hairy 
sack.  Tickling his scrotum with her long fingernails brought 
Drew's member to throbbing rigidity.
     Karen rubbed the shaft of Drew's veiny cock with fingertips 
and nails, bringing his excitement to fever pitch.  She teased a 
glob of ooze from his purple helmet and spread it all over the 
bulbous head, playing with its firmness.
     Karen encircled Drew's engorged manhood and began pumping.  
Slowly at first, and then faster, she twisted and tugged his cock 
with supple fingers.  Drew signaled his oncoming orgasm with 
insistently bucking hips as he fucked her hand ever faster.
     As Drew exploded in orgasm, Karen contained his load by 
clamping her thumb and forefinger just below the head of his cock.  
She held tightly through the rhythmic pulsations of his 
ejaculation.
     As Drew lay back, Karen slipped under the covers.  She locked 
her mouth around his dick and released the clamp, draining his hot 
thick seed and swallowing it.  She milked the residual jism and 
licked it off, smacking her lips contentedly.
     Karen lay on her back next to Drew holding his hand, fingers 
intertwined, until he reciprocated.
     Drew rested the palm of his hand on Karen's trimmed pubic 
patch, rubbing her mound in a circular pattern.  His fingers 
traced from the mons along the length of her puffy outer lips.  
Her fleshy inner lips were engorged, slick with plentiful juices.
With his long middle finger he distributed the creamy 
lubrication around her erect clit which poked from beneath its 
hood.
     With an index finger, Drew slowly rubbed one side of the 
hood, stimulating the clit indirectly, tracing small spirals on 
the sensitive skin.
     When Karen's bucking hips and rapid breathing announced her 
undeniable orgasm, Drew increased his pace slightly.  Karen came 
with a pleased moan and relaxed, Drew's warm hand resting on her 
quivering pussy.
     Karen reached over and resumed the game by grasping Drew's 
hardening penis.  They both fell asleep nearly immediately, 
thoroughly relaxed.

"- long have we been away?," Karen heard Drew asking as the 
primacy of her presence in the sweat lodge reasserted itself.
    "Only a moment," Tar answered.  "The standard hit is two 
hours, with a yield of six months on the other side of the gate.  
Time dilation is the chief benefit of transfer contracts.  A 
session each in the morning and afternoon, five days a week, 
amounts to an effective extention to your life of five years."
     "It's easy to loose your perspective," Madge continued.  
"The point of the upgrade is to provide an anchor or sorts; an 
orientation to this plane.  If you abandon your body it'll die, 
and with it the projection through the gate.  Believe me, that 
distinction will seem unimportant after years in Amber, Gaea, or 
Snug Harbor."
     "Not to mention Wonderland, Toontown, Pell Station, or 
Bellona," Tar added.
     Karen never found it necessary to be diplomatic when 
inquiring about how someone else profitted from her effort.  
"What's te coven get from this?  It seems a lot like a Manhattan 
Project at first glance.  Are you sure that we're on the right 
side of the balance of power?"
     Madge deferred to Tar for the first question.  "They 
Shadowshift cargo for us," he said.  "The personal performance 
bonus specifies shipment equivalent to your body mass between 
terminuses of your choice.  The coven will get a dedicated voyage 
of a triple-masted sailing vessel plus a generous letter of credit 
against the Crown's treasury.  Most valuable of all, however, is 
information.  What we experience and learn, individually and 
collectively, is ours."
     Madge fielded the second question herself.  "Helen Gone 
negotiated the treaty with Random.  She trusts him.  His goodwill 
was adequately demonstrated when he provided the Jewel of 
Judgement for the development of the isomorphic aerogel that we 
use in the effector arrays."
     Karen paused for a moment.  "Is the upgrade absolutely 
necessary?  Can't I just go in for it later?"
     "It is important to your development and essential to gate 
transfer contracts," Madge answered, apparently somewhat pained to 
be quoting the party line.  She added gently, "I think I know how 
you feel.  I faced 'simplicity, sincerity, serenity' with some 
apprehension as well.  Frankly, proceeding although I had 
reservations was a key to growth.  You are being asked to 
demonstrate your confidence in the coven and your place in our 
work."
     As Karen considered, Drew pressed his concern forward.  "How 
does the Amber work-for-hire project fit in with the coven's 
work?"
     "Our work is with those that we were born among," Tar 
answered.  "The upgrade strengthens the bonds we have with this 
world, but we have coffers to fill.  The challenging work that 
affords personal growth has to be sold.  Amber's buying."
     Karen sat back for a moment with her eyes closed, 
contemplating the decision, phrasing it tactfully.  "In addition 
to taking leave from the university, I'm declaring a retreat from 
my coven office."  So much for attending her Samhain initiation.
     Madge and Tar either weren't surprised, or took it well.  
Turning to Drew, Tar asked, "And you?"
     "She's my partner.  I strongly prefer to maintain a lockstep 
arrangement in our interfaces, so I'll pass on the upgrade for the 
present."  Drew paused for a moment, knowing that Karen wanted him 
along with her.  "I'm going to complete our work and see it 
through at the university."
     They sat in silence for several minutes.  The pregnant pause 
allowed room to reflect and proceed without divisive words.
     It was Madge who spoke first.  "So be it.  Your decisions 
will be respected."  Her voice was still tinged with antinomy, but 
it was replaced by genuine warmth as she continued.  "If there's 
anything that we can do, please call upon us.  We would be pleased 
to help in any way possible."
     Karen and Drew lingered briefly on pleasantries, but the 
divergent path that they'd cast upon obviated shop talk.

Karen comfortably discussed administrative details related to 
Arkham during the drive back to Los Angeles, but Drew concluded 
that the slight tension in Karen's face suggested that she would 
make a point of not asking him for an explanation of his decision.  
"Look Karen, I don't have the appreciation for Featherstone that 
you evidently do.  By a twist of fate I got off the reservation 
before it sucked me under.  I've lived with the medicine man mumbo 
jumbo."
     Karen rested her hand gently on his thigh.  "It's really 
okay, Drew."
     Drew concentrated on a corner, perfectly cranking the wheel, 
braking, and then accelerating.  "Are you even considering the 
upgrade?"
     "Do we need it?" she asked.
     "At this rate, 'suffering, sacrifice, and self-abasement' 
could be next," he said with a chuckle.
     "This is not a social crisis," Karen said with a radiant 
grin.
     "It's just another tricky day," concluded Drew, with a wink.

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                Karen Eliot's Excellent Adventures #2

                       by Jim and Meg Norris



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     Karen sat at her bar in the small pool of light cast by a desk 
lamp.  She keyed the remote and was immediately jolted by the 
intense volume in her headphones.  She quickly adjusted to the 
digital rock'n'roll.  She extracted one of the two sugar cubes from 
the small ziploc and dropped it into the clear water which about 
half filled the blue crystal glass.  Karen watched the thin tendrils 
and bubbles climbing upward from the dissolving cube.  When only a 
vestige of the cube remained, Karen stirred the water.  The painted 
Emperor penguin atop the glass stir stick turned and spun.  Clasped 
lightly in Karen's regal fingers, it completed the ceremonial 
preparation.  Karen raised the glass and drank the water in several 
unhurried swallows.  With a phrase, she invoked her hypnotically-
installed interface metaphor and prepared to enter the always open 
playground of her mind.
     Karen closed her eyes.  As always, the first effect to hit was 
the intense joy.  Beyond euphoria, she was lit by the electric 
pleasure of cognition.  The acceleration of her awareness took 
Karen's breath away.  She was filled with a sense of vibrant energy; 
restless, resisting confinement, awaiting purpose.  Karen waited, 
still and receptive, enjoying her most powerful and balanced hit of 
L+ yet.  Her face was transformed by a wide grin.  Everything that 
she experienced seemed hilarious.  The boundless soul laughed at 
every aspect of its voluntary earthly confinement.  The joyous 
feelings mellowed and Karen could feel the visual effect hitting.
     She opened her eyes.  Her will twisted the perspective of her 
view.  With slight effort, she could see the framework of points 
underlying her previous perspective.  Karen loved to come to the 
grid of brilliant spectral colors pulsing on a background of the 
deepest black.  She shifted her perspective further into the grid.  
The perception of her immediate surroundings become masked by the 
perspective switching.  With the underlying grid mostly in violet 
with some green, she could see her world alongside.  With the grid 
shifted to yellow and blue, her world became a fading afterimage.  
The final displacement was to orange and red grid lines.  The 
delicate flows between the white node points connected by the grid 
lines were clearly discernable.  Karen relaxed, her mind still.  
When she felt totally cleansed, Karen twisted her perspective back 
to her physical circumstances.
     The point framework faded, but the clear joy remained.  Karen 
tamped the last of her Mendocino purple kush into the bong bowl.  
She smoked several hits of the famous one-hit shit.



     Karen piloted her 16-valve yupster through the thickening early 
morning traffic.  She drove to her favorite regional park, 
occasionally playing with the shapes of the fluffy clouds to the 
sounds of blasting rock'n'roll.  The promising gusts of wind earlier 
had picked up to a steady breeze.  
     She was easily able to fit into the street side parking space 
left by a suit driving a boat that didn't quite look like his 
father's Oldsmobile.
     Karen removed the two bags with her gear from the car and set 
off on foot.  Her favorite visual hallucination was immediately 
operational; the clouds were false colored.  The resolution improved 
as she watched.  Horizontal and vertical movement was highlighted to 
the degree of magnitude.  Movement tails were plotted against the 
latlong grid on the sky that suddenly appeared.  Her left eye 
displayed additive color mixture and her right showed subtractive 
mixture.  She blinked rapidly several times before establishing gray 
scale; positive on left, negative on right.  With several more 
blinks she tested the binocular gray of her shaded object view mode.
     She switched the tactical overlay on and enjoyed the instant 
replacement.  Dense monochrome axial and edge lines defined the 
plotted objects in her wireframe view mode.  She blinked rapidly and 
switched the representation color; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, 
violet.  Trees moving in the breeze appeared as fractal fluff.  She 
toyed briefly with switching visibility of the hidden lines before 
halting on the small hilltop that she'd walked to.  The position was 
ideal for kite flying; an unobstructed hilltop with a comfortably 
calm lee side.  Karen willed the visual hallucination suite off.
     Once Karen had unpacked everything that she needed, the special 
components of her custom kite were arrayed about her in small 
unitary bags.  Moving lithely, she fitted the machined alloy tubes 
through the fabric.  With some flexing of the frame tubes, the 
assembly locked into position.  The dihedral looked perfect to her 
practiced eye.  She quickly attached her toys to the kite.  This was 
to be the final test of the digital camera.  The stoner-friendly 
components were a cinch to connect and test.  The kite ready, Karen 
swiftly connected the signal processor and the display to the power 
pack.  Her nipples hardened as she stood facing the oncoming chill 
wind with the black shark kite.  Once she released the two meter 
long kite, it tugged aggressively to achieve altitude.  The ratchet 
on the reel of line stopped clicking at full extension.  Karen 
hooked the reel to a concrete-anchored barbecue grill.  The kite 
would easily stay aloft all day, given wind.
     Karen plugged her goggles into the display plate.  She tested 
the trackball controlled lens movements.  The stabilized lens mount 
really cut down on vertigo.  She switched through her visual 
hallucination series satisfactorily with the remote device.  The 
view was centered downwind from her position.
     Karen started looking at her surroundings in an expanding 
spiral from the duck pond directly below the kite.  She tarried 
briefly while watching the city maintenance crew loafing near the 
lake's pump housing.  Only a single weather-beaten Pinto occupied 
the nearest parking lot.
     Karen spotted a boy walking purposefully toward the junked out 
ovenmobile where an equally weathered man sat eating a burrito in 
it.  The boy had the eager, slightly feral look of someone exposed 
to particularly harsh realities of life at too young an age.      
     The lad leaned in the passenger side window and apparently 
spoke with the driver.  As he walked away he stopped and seemed to 
meet another person whom Karen hadn't noticed.  The kid and the 
woman walked together toward the Pinto.  Both crowded at the window 
briefly.  Karen twiddled the controls to get maximum zoom and the 
best angle.  She watched something pass hands from the woman to the 
driver.  
     Then the woman and the boy got into the car.  They crowded 
together in the middle of the car making detailed observation 
impossible.
     After a few minutes the woman and boy got out of the car.  It 
occurred that the similarities in appearance and expression 
suggested a familial relationship.  Had the kid set up a deal for 
his mom?
     Spiraling wider, Karen took in the surrounding neighborhood.  
The immediate view was a jumble of air conditioners, fireplaces, 
antennae, and dilapidated roofing.  The yards proved to be barely 
more interesting, with the usual domestic animals and uninspired 
gardening.
     Still, things were not without potential as the viewing 
mechanism came to rest and Karen watched a woman stroking herself 
with tanning oil.  Almost as if she had willed it the elegant 
woman's hand was dipping into her scant bikini bottom.  The woman 
gave herself over to the pleasure of it and Karen absently licked 
the fine sheen of perspiration above her lips.
     Peripheral motion caught Karen's attention.  The Smith's 
Department Store delivery van stopped at the curb in front of the 
woman's house.  The driver walked up to the porch and waited.  
     Karen scanned back to the poolside.  Apparently in oblivion, 
the woman had just found the extended nub of her clitoris.  Karen 
read her lips, "Oh...fuck...fuck me, Jim...oh...God! Fuck meee...".  
Waves seemed to engulf her as she sank her hand deeper into her 
cunt, making her shudder with orgasm.  She relaxed on the lawn.  
     Apparently she hadn't noticed the delivery man standing on her 
porch watching her.  Karen knew that she had something here that was 
better than soap operas.  If this followed the hallowed script line, 
the coy bitch would play kinda hard to get, yet a hot wench once 
coerced into putting out.  Karen watched the woman get up and face 
the delivery man.  The cups of her halter dangled, her proud breasts 
displayed openly.  The look on her face as she whipped the guilty 
hand behind her back was priceless.  She shook her tits and rolled 
her pelvis enticingly while upholding the verbal pretense of 
fighting off an over-eager admirer.  He approached her and ran his 
hand over her breasts.  She raised her pubic mound in horny 
response, "No, please, don't.  I'll give you money."  His immediate 
reply was, "Keep it.  I'll do it for free!"
     Skip and Barbara introduced themselves once they were satisfied 
that they were committed to fucking by the rules of the mating 
ritual.  Skip finger fucked Barbara briefly before helping her out 
of her sodden bikini.
     Barbara freed Skip's erection from his jeans and began stroking 
it.  She kissed and licked his cock lightly and insisted that he 
fuck her.  Skip knelt over Barbara, slipped his massive hardon into 
her sloshing cunt, and proceeded to pump furiously.
     Karen noticed what must have been neighbor kids atop the wall 
at the back of Barbara's property.  As she watched, two boys jumped 
down and ran away.  The others, a boy and a girl of about the same 
age, stared unabashedly at the rutting adults.
     Karen turned her attention back to Barbara and Skip.  Barbara's 
thrashing was either seizures, or she was coming big time.  Just a 
moment later, Skip began jabbing his pelvis against Barbara's crotch 
with severe determination.
     Following their mutual orgasm, Barbara began protesting 
vociferously.  Skip didn't seem deterred and Skip began licking 
Barbara's tits and belly.  Karen looked back at the kids on the 
wall.  The kids who had run away were back.  They passed something 
rather large to their friends on top of the wall.  It was a 
videocam! They got it going just as Skip started licking at 
Barbara's pussy.
     While continuing to lick and suck Barbara's drenched box, Skip 
straddled her, positioning his dong above her mouth.  Barbara 
greedily mouthed his meat with abandon.  Karen watched the two 
lovers perform for the juvenile audience.  Eventually, both came 
again, but this time they collapsed afterward in exhaustion.
     The sex apparently complete, Karen continued her widening 
spiral scan.  Karen was still hot from her shameless voyeurism.  She 
unzoomed and tried to chill out.  It was some time before her 
consciousness expanded to perceive the coverage area fully, without 
effort.  After a period she lost track of watching and just watched.  
She felt the cold edges of eternity as the individuality of her 
perception faded.
     Thoroughly refreshed, Karen took off the display goggles and 
arose.  The ultra-stable shark wasn't as thrilling to fly by hand as 
most kites, but was fun nonetheless.  She unhooked the reel from the 
barbecue and stood on her local hilltop, anchoring the peeping 
shark.  Karen was starting to become bored with the kite when she 
noticed a young man approaching.          
     The smiling face of don Genaro was pasted over the approaching 
stranger.  She hated it when that happened.  The Castaneda clan, who 
considered her to be some kind of witch, invaded her lofty highs 
periodically.  Karen had to wait out the limited power of the ally 
which was reduced by ignoring it.  Meanwhile, in a thought bubble 
over her head, an icon-sized Yaqui sorcerers apprentice scribbled in 
his hilarious notebooks.
     "Happy Earth Day, Karen", Genaro said.
     "Piss on that", Karen said as she continued to fly her kite.
     "What?", Genaro smiled.
    "Happy Earth First! day", Karen replied.
     "What's it matter what you call it as long as we act together 
to save the planet?"
     "You sound like the environmental president.  Let's link arms 
across Amerika and pretend.  Let's pretend that someone else will 
fix things.  Save it for the yuppie swine."
     "Okay, what're you doing?"
     "Well, let me see.  I'm shipping a crate of special tree 
spikes, writing to imprisoned Firsters, and planting trees.  And 
that's today."
     Unsure of the man's exact identity, she posed an insider 
question, "How's the titty project"?
     "Beautiful! The tiny turbofan was incredible.  We got much 
better performance from the zeppelin than expected.  And quiet? 
Almost inaudible at altitude.  How's the vid?"
     "It's perfect.  I taped some haus frau fucking a delivery man 
in her back yard over there", she said, pointing to the subdivision 
next to the park.  "And I wasn't the only one.  The kids next door 
are going to make her a local celebrity."
     Still, don Genaro could have been one of several men.  But, 
which one?  Another insider question, "And the navware?"
     "Haven't heard, but that was the easiest part.  I'm sure it's 
go", Genaro responded.
     With the realization that she was speaking to Roger Wilco, the 
airframe contractor, the don Genaro face disappeared, leaving 
Roger's craggy, but handsome features.  The figure in the thought 
bubble paused and looked up before vanishing.
     "I've got a solid lead on the fundy mentalists", Roger 
announced.  "A church that they gather at before descending on 
clinics.  An OR organizer flew in for a meeting tonight."
     Used to the short notice which was often involved in 
monkeywrenching, Karen pressed for details, "What's their security?"
     "Jesus and the parking lot lights."
     "What're you doing?", Karen asked, her interest piqued.
     "Placing caltrops.  There should be a nearly full parking lot, 
and we have enough for all.  There's even enough for the helpful tow 
trucks and supportive friends."
     Without reservation, Karen agreed to the date.  She traded 
turns with Roger hauling in the peeping shark.



     Karen negotiated the suburban streets according to the 
instructions that she'd received.  She found the health spa with 
little effort.  She'd passed on several previous occasions, but had 
been unimpressed by the lack of business that was evident.  If the 
grounds were any indication, the spa wasn't doing any too well.
     She parked under the shade the nearest tree to the door.  The 
information desk was right inside the door.  Karen was pleased to be 
recognized when she introduced herself to the pretty brunette.  
During the time that she waited for her masseuse, Karen watched the 
swimmers in the olympic pool beyond the plate glass.  Several men 
and a woman played hide-and-seek games enthusiastically.
     Dena, who would her masseuse, was not what Karen had expected.  
She was a short, plump, Latina with a kindly but deferential manner.  
Dena led Karen to a private massage room.
Once the door was closed, she withdrew a small pipe and her stash of 
Humboldt skunk from her purse.  As she loaded the pipe she explained 
to Karen, "It's an excellent high.  No seeds".  The women sat calmly 
and puffed the bowl to dust.
     Karen roused herself from her mental fog and stood, gracefully 
pulling the pinafore dress over her head.  Her tits jiggled 
delightfully when she shook her hair out.  Almost as an 
afterthought, she slipped her bikini panties off and stepped out of 
her sandals.  She dropped all three articles of clothing on the 
chair which she'd just been sitting in and and lay face on the 
prepared table.  Dena waited, warming the oil in hands that had 
sturdy, practiced fingers.  Karen hadn't taken note of Dena's covert 
appreciation of her gorgeous body as she disrobed.
      Starting with a sweeping arch that took in Karen's shoulders 
and the upper portion of her back, Dena began.  Her fingers worked 
in concert to slowly knead the areas that offered resistance.  Karen 
felt the tension retreat as Dena worked her flesh with warm circular 
pressure.  Dena used delicate touches to relax Karen's neck and 
scalp before turning her attentions to Karen's lower back.  
Captivated by the gentle curve of Karen's sweetly freckled ass, Dena 
cupped and rubbed the lovely buttocks.  Karen automatically spread 
her legs apart as Dena stroked her upper thighs.  Dena thoroughly 
rubbed Karen's shapely legs.  As she proceeded toward Karen's ankles 
she was overcome by the perfect picture of split tail.  
     Dena bent Karen's legs up at the knees and began a detailed 
study of her feet.  Her fingers traced every detail of Karen's toes, 
arches, and heels.
       Karen rolled over at the easy touch.  Dena intertwined her 
fingers between Karen's toes and lightly sucked and licked between 
them, the while rolling her fingers along the tender arch.  Karen's 
erect nipples testified to her growing excitement.  She arched her 
back involuntarily and moaned excitedly from the wonderful sensory 
overload.  Dena's expert hands kneaded Karen's calf.  She massaged 
Karen's upper thigh and knee.  Karen's legs gradually spread further 
apart revealing her moist and puffy pussy.  Dena rubbed the other 
leg from the thigh to the knee and ankle.  Finally, she gave Karen's 
left foot equal treatment.  While Karen relaxed, Dena moved around 
to Karen's side.  She made several applications of oil to Karen's 
chest, manipulating her breasts gently.
     Dena lost herself briefly playing with Karen's firm and shapely 
tits.  The well oiled mounds conformed to the constantly changing 
pressure from her hands, but immediately returned to their pert 
contours when released.  Dena concentrated her efforts on each 
breast in turn once Karen's nips came up; one hand shifting and 
sliding, the other tugging and twisting the sensitive nipple.  When 
she could tear herself away, Dena bent over and lightly kissed each 
of Karen's coral-colored nips.
     Only the slightest pressure was required to prompt Karen to 
reposition herself on the table.  From slender feet to tapered 
calves to slim thighs, Dena relished the view of Karen's shapely 
legs dangling from the table.  She felt nothing short of adoration 
for the flower of womanly flesh nestled in Karen's downy pubes.
     Dena dabbed special spice-scented oil on Karen's swollen mound, 
rubbing gently around and around.  She brushed the fleshy inner lips 
and saw the first drops of translucent dew.  With practiced strokes, 
Dena manipulated the lubricated labia.  She caressed the clitoral 
hood with one hand while easing the index finger of the other into 
the snug pussy.  She tantalized the hardened pea and the delicate 
labial fold.  Dena added more oil and began screwing her finger in 
and out of Karen's cunt; slowly at first, but faster and faster in 
tempo to Karen's bucking hips and inarticulate moans.  When she got 
the track of Karen's approaching orgasm Dena carefully synced her 
motions, until the orgasmic waves from Karen's clit and G-spot 
cascaded over her repeatedly.
     Dena slipped the amyl capsule from her stash while Karen 
relaxed, laying back, breathing raggedly.  As soon as Karen was 
desensitized, Dena lowered her mouth to Karen's crotch and exhaled 
warmly.
     Dena reamed the point of her delicate tongue into the puckered 
rosebud of Karen's asshole.  Karen moaned gently and rubbed an erect 
nipple between forefinger and thumb of one hand while she played 
with Dena's glossy mane with the other hand.  Aroused by the musky 
femininity, Dena began licking the length of Karen's slit with 
fervor, occasionally tugging her pussy lips gently, or nuzzling her 
swollen clit.  As she licked gentle circular patterns, Dena prepared 
to crush the capsule.  She carefully led Karen to the edge of 
orgasm; hips gyrating, rolling her pussy wantonly, crazed.  Karen 
had just started her hard climax when she smelled the medicinal 
odor.  Instantly, the vasodilator hit and Dena jammed a finger in 
her ass.  Karen rode the forever acceleration of rocket-boosted-
orgasm nearly to seizures before it faded.  She lay back, spent and 
exhausted.
     Dena slowly arose and walked to Karen's side where she leaned 
over and cuddled the redhead gently.  They snuggled briefly before 
Dena patted Karen's sweet ass and stepped away to prepare the 
shower.
    Karen got up once she heard the water running.  The shower was a 
freestanding pipe in the corner with a massage shower head on a 
hose.  A tile sill provided a shallow basin around the drain.  Karen 
was captivated by the radiant smile which Dena sported as she soaped 
a washcloth.  Invigorated by the very scent of the lathered mint 
soap as she approached, Karen slipped into the steamy shower.
     Karen raised her arms and intertwined her fingers behind her 
head while Dena began walking around her, rinsing her with the 
needle spray hot water.  When Dena hung the shower head on the pipe 
Karen turned to direct the massaging water on her shoulders and 
upper back.  Dena knelt and eased Karen's legs apart.  She gently 
yet thoroughly washed the blushing snatch with the stimulating soap.
     Dena turned off the shower and patted a large fluffy towel 
against Karen's lightly freckled skin, drying her completely.  The 
two women hugged warmly before returning to Karen's clothes and a 
final smoke before Karen dressed and left for the swimming pool.



     Roger Wilco had all the equipment set up and tested at the safe 
house before Karen arrived late in the evening.  They awaited the 
cabal contact who was to direct the signoff mission of the zeppelin.  
Hedda Steam was an old friend of Karen's, but Roger only knew her 
from construction review meetings.
     Roger answered the knock at the door.  The raven-haired Amerind 
was as beautiful, and as businesslike, as ever.  Roger led her to 
the back bedroom where the computers and radios were arrayed.  Karen 
and Hedda embraced warmly and pecked each others cheeks.  Karen 
offered the first hit of red-haired sinse to Hedda, who obliged by 
lighting the bong and drawing deeply.  After several passes of the 
pipe, the three were relaxed and ready.
     The mischief was about to begin.  Karen and Hedda had watched 
Roger transmit the flight instructions that had allowed the zeppelin 
to shadow the formation of six Bell 206 utility helicopters.
     With several keystrokes, Roger selected the radio navaids to be 
jammed.  It was no small coincidence that the formation was 
currently relying on them for navigation.  With a press of the 
RETURN key, programming was uploaded to the special pod which was 
attached to the zeppelin.
     The chopper pilots became concerned when red flags started to 
extend into the faces of their radio navigation instruments.  They 
switched through the various VOR frequencies available to them and 
found the same static everywhere.
     The cabal mission outline had optimistically projected that the 
malathion sprayers would abort their mission and return to base once 
they could no longer rely on absolute positioning.  That hope was 
shattered when the lead pilot ordered continuing on visual.  
"Charlie Mike", he'd called on the radio as he began the final turn,  
leading the legal urban aerial poisoning of sleeping families.
     Hedda nodded and Roger selected and transmitted another 
program.  The zeppelin began forging the signals returned by the 
altitude-encoding radar transponders of the formation.  Roger, 
Hedda, and Karen waited a tense few minutes, listening fortrouble.  
When none came, Hedda nodded again and Roger sent an initiating 
signal.  
     In an instant, the helicopters all appeared to have been 
hijacked.  The air traffic controllers saw the assigned squawk codes 
turn to 7500 in one sweep of the interrogating radar beam.
     The nightmare was only starting for the controllers.  Their 
calls weren't heard or returned by the formation.  The pilots were 
apparently getting somewhat edgy about the loss of communication as 
well.  Unable to communicate with one another, the pilots broke 
formation according to contingency plan.
     Once the formation began breaking up, the zeppelin changed the 
forged squawk codes to 7700; emergency.  The encoded altitude was 
rapidly decreased until the signal was completely blanked.  The 
controllers believed that the choppers had crashed and began 
responding accordingly.
     Roger transmitted the final program.  The zeppelin ceased all 
radio interference and turned to its departure path; a secure cabal-
operated landing zone waited in the desert.  The turbofan-powered 
zeppelin slipped away, its anechoic coating hiding it from the radar 
below and above, where the alerted interceptors snooped.
     Roger, Karen, and Hedda were almost rolling on the floor in 
laughter from the conversations between the malathion sprayers and 
the air traffic controllers.  It was going to be a very late night 
for these lackeys of agribiz.

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