Neha and Michelle (A Literotica Story)

After two long years at a community college, I transferred to UNLV and enrolled in the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.  As a transfer student, I felt behind in meeting people and making friends, and spent the first few weeks with my head down, too shy to put myself out there, sure that everybody else already knew each other and had no more space for a new friend.  And I think things would’ve stayed that way for a long time if I hadn’t sat next to Michelle one day in class.

              Michelle was a loud, boisterous Vietnamese girl, with jet black hair, an infectious laugh, and large boobs that were always on display.  I noticed her boobs long before we ever met.

              Michelle sat down next to me and without any hesitation or shame turned to me sticking out her hand and said , “I’m Michelle,”

              “I’m Neha.”

              “Nice to meet you, Neha.  Where are you from?  How long have you been here?  How are you liking it?”

              That is exactly how Michelle talked all the time.  Three questions strung together without break.  A string of thoughts spat out like machine gun fire as if she was worried if she didn’t say it all quickly she’d forget her thought before the next came.  Or, more likely since she was the youngest of seven, as if she wouldn’t be able to get another word out if she didn’t fill every inch of space with her voice.

              I was the complete opposite.  I could sit in a room of people and never feel the need to open my mouth at all.  My Indian family was not exactly strict, but women also weren’t expected to be the center of attention.  It was understood that our first job was to cook the food that the men would eat first; and our second job was to clean up the food after the men had eaten; and our third job was to do it all without being noticed.  All of which turned out to be great training for my future career in hospitality.

              It was not, however, great training for being friends with a whirling dervish like Michelle.  But maybe our opposite natures were the reason for our quick friendship, maybe the fact that I allowed Michelle the space to fill the room and the conversations with her entire personality endeared me to her.  Whatever the reason, we were fast friends from then on.  It turned out our apartment complexes were just blocks away, and we soon began carpooling to class, studying together in the library, working out at the Mack (whenever she could convince me) and hanging out at my apartment’s pool (Michelle’s complex was nicer, but there was no doubt my pool was the nicer of the two.)

              Michelle was the recipient of constant attention from the guys at school or at the pool or pretty much anywhere we went.  Almost invariably she’d just shrug it off and keep moving, keep talking, keep it just between us.  I once asked her why she dressed so provocatively if she didn’t want the attention.  I asked why she was constantly showing major amounts of cleavage, why her bikinis were so small, why she always wore thongs at the pool, if she didn’t want the guys to approach her.  She must have known it would draw attention and guys who wanted more than just to look.

              “I do want their attention,” Michelle said.  “I love it.  I want it all.”

              “But you never like them, you ALWAYS blow them off.”

              “Yeah, but choosing to blow them off is better than not having a choice.  Maybe someday the right guy will come talk to me.  And maybe the right guy will come talk to me despite what I’m wearing and not because of it.”  After a rare pause, she said, “besides, you know girls only dress for other girls anyway,” and winked and skipped off towards my apartment, her exposed butt cheeks jiggling away from me.

              After our last class of the fall semester, Michelle insisted we go out.  She made reservations at Tao, and after we ate, we went upstairs to the club.  I wasn’t dressed too differently from my usual attire, a flowy satin blouse, jeans and heels.  Michelle went all out.  She wore a black, strapless dress with a very low slit in front and an uneven hemline that perfectly revealed the tiger tattoo on her upper left thigh.  I was too scared to ask, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure how she was keeping everything hidden. 

              We ordered a drink at one of the bars, turning down two offers from guys trying to buy us drinks, and slid our way through the crowd to the dance floor.  Michelle held my hand and pulled me through the crowd, our bodies brushing against everybody.  I noticed that hands would reach out and brush against Michelle, feeling her side, her butt, even her breast.  She just kept going, fearlessly leading me through the swarm, and eventually we started dancing in our world.  Guys would approach Michelle and eventually slink off when she paid them no mind.

              After a handful of songs we were getting hot and made our way back to the bar for another drink, then slid along a wall to rest and watch the bodies move.  There was a couple to my left that Michelle peered past me to watch.  The guy was a tall, handsome white guy with broad shoulders and, I can never help but noticing, perfect teeth.  The girl was every bit Michelle’s match, Asian, jet black hair with straight cut bangs, high heels, short, SHORT shorts, and a white t-shirt tied up at the stomach and hanging off one shoulder.  She clearly wasn’t wearing a bra.

              The girl was dancing in front of her man, facing him, then rubbing her ass against him, then turning around again to face him.  I couldn’t help but notice the bulge in his slacks when she’d create space, and I understood his reaction.  This girl was all gorgeousness and sexuality.  I turned to see Michelle entranced, and when the couple started making out, Michelle groaned, “ugh, it’s been foreeeeever since I had a good makeout sesh.  How long has it been for you, Neha?”

              “Oh, probably two years,” I laughed.

              “What?” she shouted.  “We have to fix that.”

              I laughed again.  “I’m not real comfortable making out with just anybody,” I said.  “I can’t make out with someone I don’t know.”

              “Then what about someone you DO know,” she asked.

              “Like who?”

              “Have you ever kissed a girl?”

              “No,” I said.  “Have you?”

              “No.”  Michelle smiled at me, then said, “But I totally would.  I would totally make out with you.”

              This caught me completely off guard.  I had never gotten any indication that Michelle liked me.  Or girls.  And maybe she didn’t.  I didn’t.  But now that the idea had been put in my head, I had to admit, I was interested.  Judging by how my heart was racing and I began tripping over my words, I was very, very interested.  I couldn’t help but glance at Michelle’s lips, thin but inviting, glossy and moist.  I saw her tongue mindlessly lick them before she took another sip of her drink.  Seeing her lips on the thin straw got my mind whirring.

              Michelle looked past me at the couple, the girl now grinding on the bent knee of the handsome man.  She laughed at them and my stunned silence and grabbed my hand and said, “come on, more dancing.  Let me seduce you.”

              Back out on the dance floor I felt more self-conscious than at any point in my life.  I was hyper aware of every step I took, every sway of my hips, my hands, my facial expression.  Michelle would grab my hips and move me then bounce away, turn her back to me and push her ass back towards me, then face me again, run her hands over my arms and down my side, then separate completely, something that both relieved and disappointed me. 

              Eventually, too hot from the sweaty mass of bodies around us, we went out to the thin balcony outside the club, cooling off with the night air that smelled slightly sweet from cigarette smoke.  We found ourselves right next to the same couple from earlier, and again they were making out, him towering over her, leaning down to kiss her, their eyes locked on each other.  Michelle stared unabashedly at them for what seemed like minutes, then turned to me and let out a giant sigh.

              “I want it,” she said, pouting with every word.  I was too nervous to speak and avoided her eyes by looking anywhere else.  I saw the couples lips part and close, a flash of tongue, saw his hand begin to move slowly from her hip, up her side, to caress her breast, then squeeze, which caused her to bite his lips in a smile of approval.  I felt Michelle watching me.  No, watching isn’t right.  I felt her staring at me.  I caved and returned her look.

              “Do you want to?” she asked.

              I bit my own lip, both in contemplation and in hopes it would lessen the desire.  But, instead, it only increased, and the sweat from dancing, the night air, the thumping music bouncing off the windows, and this ridiculously hot couple making out for my voyeuristic enjoyment was too much for me to resist and I nodded.

              Michelle took a step closer, put her arms around my neck, and slowly moved her face towards mine.  I focused on her lips, too afraid to look at her eyes or any other part of her in fear of losing my nerves.  Michelle’s lips parted as she got closer, and we each tilted slightly to our right, our lips pausing just momentarily a millimeter apart, before meeting in a kiss so soft and sensuous and kind that I felt like my heart was melting into my stomach.  It was not desire.  It wasn’t exactly love.  But it was caring without question. 

              Our lips closed, parted again, closed again.  I thought we were done when our lips closed and seemed to pucker away from each other, but then seeming to have the same desire for a little more at the same time, we each parted our mouths a little extra and our tongues meet before our lips found each other again. 

              As we parted I was too nervous to meet her gaze and instead turned my head to find the tall, handsome guy looking at us.  “Was that your first time? he asked.”  I nodded, and saw the girl smiling and biting her lip.

              “That was really fucking hot,” she said, and her boyfriend nodded vigorously.

              “Did you like it he asked,” looking at me first, then Michelle.

              I looked at Michelle, too, suddenly curious to know as well.  She looked at me and smiled and said, “ohhhhh yeah.  I liked it a lot.”

              I felt my face flush with heat and I couldn’t suppress a smile. Avoiding Michelle and looking instead to the couple, I managed to murmur “me, too.”

              “Will you do it again,” he asked.

              “Do you want to,” I asked Michelle.

              In answer she put her arm on my lower back and pulled me up against her, our stomachs pressed together, and kissed me again, over, and over, and over.  It was the longest string of kisses of my life, and when we finally parted, the girl was squealing with delight.  She hit her boyfriend playfully and said, “Now THAT is how you kiss a girl.”

              With Michelle’s hand still on my lower back keeping our midsections pinned, I leaned back to look at her, and what I saw was intense focus mixed with what I thought, hoped, was desire.  I reached out with my left hand, pulled her hair away from the right side of her neck from behind, and leaned in to kiss her neck, then lick up towards her ear, my right hand reaching up to first caress, then grab her breast.  I could feel her nipple pushing against the fabric, and I squeezed my palm around it, then rubbed my thumb over it as my lips took in her earlobe.  I let my lips linger there and whispered, “I’ve always wanted to touch your boobs.”  Michelle laughed, but thankfully not finding me ridiculous.

              “Baby, you could have touched any part of me anytime you want.”  I smiled at this, leaned back, and grabbed both her boobs with both my hands and saw how it pushed her cleavage up her dress, exposing more of the fullness of her breasts.  I looked to see her reaction and she was smiling, clearly enjoying my enjoyment of her.  I became self-conscious and dropped my hands which she caught in hers.  She leaned forward, kissed me once more, then asked if I wanted to go home.  I very much wanted to go home.

              We held hands walking towards the exit.  We faced each other and kissed riding down the escalator.  She pushed me against the wall of the elevator and kissed my neck and ear until we got to our floor of the parking garage.  And the entire drive home her right hand ran up and down my inner thigh, occasionally brushing against the fabric of my panties, worrying me tremendously that she would be appalled to find them wet.

              I needn’t have worried.  Because as soon as we parked she crawled over to my seat, unbuttoned my jeans, straddled me, and reached inside my jeans and said, “I need to know if you’re as wet as I am right now.”  Her finger ran up and down my panties and I gasped with surprise and pleasure.  She moaned as she bit my lip.  I felt her finger leave my panties and heard, HEARD, her finger sink into her pussy then come out and slide between my lips.  I closed my lips around her finger and licked off her juices, which smelled faintly fruity, and the for the very first time in my life I considered licking another girl’s pussy.  In fact, at that moment, that’s the only thing I wanted.  I realized I no longer wanted to kiss her.  I didn’t want her to finger me, or lick my neck, or touch me anymore.  I wanted to taste her.  I wanted to drink her. 

              I pulled the lever on the side of the seat and dropped the seat back so I was nearly flat.  I put my hands under her thighs and lifted her towards my face.  Michelle lifted the bottom of her dress up past her thighs, and as I suspected I was greeted by her cleanly waxed pussy rather than any panties beneath her dress.  She sank her hips down and put her pussy lips to my lips with my tongue fitting perfectly in between to flick upwards towards her clit.  Her moan let me know I was on the right track.

              Briefly, ever so briefly, I considered how just hours earlier I hadn’t had even one sexual thought about another girl, and here was my new best friend’s pussy pressed against my face with no seeming end to my desire to taste and feel her.  But that gave way to a pure desire to keep pleasing my friend, not to mention distraction as Michelle had pulled down the top of her dress so it was now fully bunched up around her midsection revealing her perfect breasts to me.  I lifted her hips ever so slightly up from my face and asked, “do you always go without bra and panties when you go out?”

              “I wanted to feel sexy tonight,” she moaned back while sinking her hips back down and kneading her breast with her right hand as her left steadied herself on the headrest behind me.  While I had never pleased a woman before, in all my other sexual encounters I was a pleaser turned on by knowing my partner felt good, and this was no different.  I focused on her reactions to my tongue and tried to repeat anything that elicited a response.  Eventually I found a steady rhythm on her clit that from the noises I could tell both pleased and quieted Michelle.  I watched as her hand squeezed then held her breast.  I felt Michelle tense and doubled down on my focused, steady rhythm, until I heard her gasp, “Oh God,” then begin shaking, her head thrown back and jerking more up than down until she was fully bent back and looking at the roof of her car.

              Michelle slid down, her breasts sliding past my mouth which futilely reached out trying to get a taste of her nipple, until she was face to face with me.  She was flushed, sweaty, smiling, and she opened her mouth and slid her tongue into my mouth, probing, tasting herself in my mouth.  Which turned me on like no other.

              “I want you too,” she said.  “But I want you inside.  Let’s go inside.”

              Straddling me, she leaned over and grabbed the keys out of the ignition and her purse from the center console, then opened the passenger door and awkwardly stepped out into the parking lot.  “Michelle, your dress,” I said.  She looked down, grabbed the material and pushed it down past her hips and stepped out of it, leaving her in just her black heels.  “Fuck my dress,” she said, “let’s go.”  She reached in and grabbed my wrists and pulled me out of the car.

              We held hands, and I watched with admiration as she boldly walked naked through the complex, her breasts firm and in place.  I peeked back at her butt as it moved right and left, up and down, and I smirked, then chuckled, then outright laughed.  Michelle looked at me with wonder.  “What?” she asked.

              I laughed again and shook my head.  “I’ve got me a bad bitch.”  We both laughed the rest of the way back to her apartment, and I grabbed both her ass cheeks as she slid her key into the lock.  She closed the door behind me and led me to her bedroom.  I went to sit down, but she held me there, kept me standing.  She used my shoulder to steady herself as she took off her heels, then put her arms around me, pressed her naked body to me, and kissed me deeply.  She slid my blouse over my head, then kneeled before me and pulled my jeans down, followed by my panties.  Not knowing what to do with my hands, I reached down and put both on her head, massaging her scalp, as her head moved forward and I felt her hands gently nudge my thighs apart.

              When her tongue hit my clit I lost all composure and simply dropped backwards.  Had there not been a bed right behind me I would’ve fallen all the way to the floor, there were no motor skills available.  Michelle pushed me backwards on the bed until she was able to lie on her stomach before me.  I bent my knees, letting her fill that space, and her mouth found her way back to my pussy.  The pleasure was intense and immediate.  Maybe Michelle was a natural at cunnilingus.  Maybe the situation was just so stimulating that I needed very little to succumb to pleasure.  Either way, within a minute I felt my orgasm building.  The thought of cumming in front of my friend, the thought of cumming ON my friend, shocked me back to reality.  My eyes opened wide and I looked from the ceiling to the top of Michelle’s head, seeing it nod up and down as her tongue flicked up against my clit. 

              Michelle’s eyes looked up at me, her head shifting enough for me to see her tongue out of her mouth.  “I’m close,” I whispered, and I saw her eyes shine and her focus returned to my clit.  I closed my eyes again, grabbed the sheets in my clenched hands, and let the orgasm roll over me.  Michelle’s tongue didn’t quit, still moving as my body rocked then slowed, until I had to push her head away as it became more uncomfortable than anything.  I felt tears leak down my face, and I began to cry, then laugh, then cry-laugh uncontrollably.  I felt exhausted and ridiculous and completely drained.

              Michelle slid up to me and rolled on her side and held me.  She kissed my cheek, and then my lips.  “Did you feel good, baby?” she asked.  I continued to cry and laugh and cough and nodded my head.  “You’re so beautiful,” she said. 

              I squeezed my eyes shut and pressed out the last of my tears.  “I’m sorry,” I said.  “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

              “Shhh, baby, it’s okay,” she said back.  I felt her roll onto her back, and opened my eyes to see her looking at me.  My glance moved down her body, and I saw her reaching between her legs to touch herself.  “That was so hot, baby.  I’m still turned on.  Can I touch myself?  Is it okay?  I want to feel good again, baby.”

              I nodded and watched her hand.  I saw her dip a finger into her pussy, then slide out and begin circling on her clit.  Michelle was beautiful.  She was sexy.  She was pure sexiness.  And watching her perfect body, watching her please herself, watching her head roll back as she let herself get into her pleasure, was enough to spike my desire again.  I had never touched myself in front of anybody before.  I didn’t touch myself all that often to begin with.  But I had never kissed my friend before, or kissed a girl before, or felt anybody’s boobs before, or licked a pussy before, or had a girl finger me before, or had a girl lick my pussy before.  So with no logical reason to hold back, I reached between my legs and began to touch myself, too.

              I felt the left side of Michelle’s body pressed against my right side, her right hand between her legs, my left hand between mine.  I turned my head to watch her at the same time she turned towards me, and we kissed as our hands continued to pleasure ourselves.  I kept my gaze on Michelle’s face, watching her focus on what she was doing, seeing her right breast jiggle in my periphery.  I felt the increase in her rhythm as I saw the intensity of her reactions, her bottom lip firmly in her teeth.  I heard her start to breathe louder, begin to whimper, and I increased my pace, feeling the sensation from my pussy all the way up to my throat.  Michelle gasped “I’m going to cum,” and that was enough to push me over the edge, and our orgasms hit us simultaneously.

              As we both came down, we let out sighs at the same time, and laughed as we looked in each other’s eyes.  Michelle rolled over on top of me, her breasts pressed against my bra.  She leaned down and kissed my lips.  “That was amazing, baby.  I don’t know how that happened, but now I don’t know why we haven’t been doing that all along.”  We kissed again, and two orgasms and the weight of her body on mine left me completely exhausted and calmed.  I wrapped my arms around her, held her close, and let out the most satisfied sigh of my life.

Jim Jefferies Intolerant Review

I will FOREVER love Jim Jefferies for his bit about gun control.

I think this bit is pure perfection, perfectly laid out, perfectly structured, and spot on. And as he would say, 50% of the country would vehemently disagree with that last part, but fuck them, so there.

It’s that structure that really shines in this latest comedy special on Netflix. He essentially weaves an entire show around one ongoing story, using at as a jumping off point for all his other bits.

Jim Jefferies will make you laugh. Except when he’s pissing you off. Chances are he’ll piss you off at some point. I disagreed – strenuously – with one of his bits, but for the most part I found it damn funny and entertaining and his delivery is fantastic.

To the part I disagreed with. He had a bit about how food addiction is the only addiction we can’t shame because fat shaming isn’t considered acceptable. And to this point, I understanding the starting place. But his joke devolves into saying how the junkie shooting heroin already feels enough shame that there’s no need to point out his missteps, but the over eater is encouraged to be themselves and seemingly doesn’t have that inherent sense of shame. To which I say, “Are you fucking kidding me? You don’t think I’m shaming myself for the box of cookies I down in one sitting while watching a Jim Jefferies special on Netflix?”

But Jim will be happy to know I listened to it all, and I understand the point he made when he tells people to keep in mind that what he says may be just a joke – telling jokes is in his job description after all.

If you’re not too thin skinned, I say give this a watch. And if you haven’t watched his gun control bit… scroll up… NOW. That’s must see stuff.

Limited Time Only (A Way of Justin Entry)

If I ever write The Way of Justin, a book that would contain the ideas and practices that work for me and could make up a code of conduct to apply to the rest of my life, it would likely have an introduction entitled “Limited Time Only.” I expect my Way would include messages of kindness, acceptance, awareness, along with practices like exercise and gift giving. Anything in the Way, though, would have to be considered underneath the over-arching idea that we are here for a limited time only. More to the point, every relationship is for a limited time only.

In the movie Rudy, Rudy asks a priest for help and counsel, and the priest says, “Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I’m not Him.” For my part, having spent my 40 years being “painfully observant,” as a coworker once said, I have kept an eye out for universal truths. And there aren’t many. As temperature increases, relative humidity decreases, and the inverse. As air rises, temperature decreases, and at a rate faster than the temperature decreases as it descends. But the main universal truth is that we all die. Our time here on Earth, at least in this body and with this mind, is limited time only.

This lends a sense or urgency to life, but can also provide some freedom. I’m reminded of a quote I once heard: “Everyone makes me happy. Some people when they show up, others when they leave.” When I consider my relationships, I must always remember limited time only, so that I can truly appreciate the positive relationships and enjoy them as much as possible, but also so I can not get too worked up over the more toxic or uncomfortable relationships knowing they will eventually end.

I find when I look at my dogs, if I remind myself limited time only, I look at them more lovingly and can keep in mind that my time with them will be shorter than either of us wish.

When I think of positive relationships, I think of another possible tenet from The Way of Justin: “Don’t be afraid to love who you like.” I think many times we know the people who we come across who spark something in us, who make us comfortable, who we would rather work with or walk with or grab coffee with, but we hold back, we just accept the relationship at its basic level. I think if we allow ourselves to go beyond “like” in those relationships and come from a place of love instead we can enrich our lives more during the limited time we have here in this life.

For me, “Limited Time Only” means remembering that each moment, each activity, each relationship will end, for better or for worse. If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything (other than that people in Florida are crazy), it’s that things can change in an instant. Appreciate what you have, because you won’t always have it. Don’t sweat over the negatives too much, because those won’t be around forever either. Make the most of the positive moments. Make the most of your loving relationships. Make the most of your gifts. Make the most of your interests. Make the most of this life.

As Alicia Keys sang, “I don’t want to forget the present is a gift.”

Depressed

This is not going to be fun. There won’t be any fun pictures of naked people. Probably won’t be any pictures at all. Well, shit.

I’m depressed. It’s a weird time to be depressed. Not weird in the sense that it’s unique or unusual. No, it’s weird because it’s not at all unique or unusual. It would seem that EVERYBODY is depressed now. And perhaps for good reason. So much of life has been upended, ripped apart, taken away by the Covid pandemic. Add to that the social unrest, and life as we know it is teetering on the edge of major change. Being scared or anxious or depressed would seem to make a lot of sense right now.

It’s a weird time to be depressed because for the first time in my life I’m not at all afraid to share that I’m depressed, because people are so much more accepting and understanding of it.

But, goddamn it, that has also been incredibly frustrating, because these people who have been so accepting and understanding also minimize it. It’s the times they say. It would be weird to not be depressed they say. Whenever this (whatever this is) changes, how you feel will change, they say.

I have felt like this for a long, long time though. The only difference for me is there are no consistent distractions from it. My depression just sits there next to me at all times, never leaving, maybe napping for a bit here and there, but always waking up and saying, “hey, I must’ve fallen asleep, but I’m here now, pay attention to me, I’m coming with you from now on.”

I am losing at life. You can see it objectively. I’m here for this one life, for an unknown period of time, and that time is running out, and I’m spending it not being happy, not knowing how to properly live my life.

It’s time to figure this shit out.

The Buddha said (and I’m paraphrasing, probably poorly) to never take his word on anything, to test his theories out for one’s self, to experiment, to try things on your own. Gandhi lived his life that way. He entitled his autobiography An Autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth. That’s what I want to do, create my own experiment on how to live, find out exactly what works and what doesn’t, and stop doing the stupid shit that simply doesn’t work for me.

I lied, here’s a picture after all. Not a fun one necessarily, though, and certainly no nudity

(Editor’s Note: This post was started weeks ago, picked up, dropped again, and picked up again. I’m back to finish it entirely to move past it. A note about the editor’s note. I am the editor.)

Since the new fiscal year I have been trying to overcome my depression. Like Gandhi, experimenting, trying to find what works. First, working out. I would love to look good naked, but the problem with that as a motivation is when you don’t yet look good naked you can end up frustrated. So, a different motivation: my mood. There is no known mood booster that is as consistently effective for me as working out. I am trying to keep that in mind. More on that and more on my experiments.

The other night I rewatched Ghost Dog for… oh… the thousandth time. Ghost Dog has a code, a way, that guides his actions. He never needs to question what to do or his approach, because it’s all laid out for him. He follows the way of the samurai from the book Hagakure.

And this is what I have always missed. I don’t believe in God (a subject for another time). I don’t believe in an after life. I don’t believe in anything really. Yet, I’m also deathly afraid of death, so here I am, with this one opportunity at life but seeing no point in it. My depression is often a result of simply not knowing what to do. Not having a Way.

So, I will create my own Way. The Way of Justin (I don’t like using the Tao of Justin here, as that as a title has been both played out and as a result now connotates not “The Way” exactly but more “an explanation of.”

This got a bit disjointed. That’s what happens when you start and stop so much. Apologies.

But here’s the major point: I want to explore the different tenants of My Way in this space. I want to take a bullet point or an idea or a quote that speaks to me and explore it. In this way I am both sharing my ideas, but also work-booking my ideas to see what truly speaks to me, what holds up to scrutiny and should end up in my code of conduct, my system of beliefs, MY WAY.

Enough. Enough.

Why not end with something fun?

Have you seen this girl Scarlit Scandal? I mean goodness gracious!

Homework for Dr. Calma, PsyD (a poem)


‘Go workout.
‘That’s the best anti-depressant you could ever buy’
So maybe I stop letting anyone know

Libraries among other places
Feel like home
Can bring a smile
Grabbing four, five books at a time
Reading the first pages of each
Taking home three
Knowing one will fill me for a week or so

Libraries can spike anxiety
No book is right
Why is it so hard to find a good book?
Other people like this book,
Why can’t I?
But I don’t
Like knowing Netflix has brought so much joy and
Being unable to recreate it

I’ve worked out
The sweat drips
It was brutal, but now that it’s over
I think I’ve got it all figured out

The alarm is supposed to be gentle
It’s chimes as subtle as a claxon
That bypasses my ears and hammers at my
Chest cavity
A physical pain
Crushing my best intentions from
The night before

She was depressed too
Though we never used the word
She’d wear her boyfriend’s hat for me
For me
Because I found it sexy
She’d ask
‘Forward or backward’
Our depression feeding each other’s –
I had a girlfriend who didn’t know

‘Is it my fault?’
Infuriating
Because
If it was your fault
There’d be a solution

Telling someone is like
Asking for permission
To carry on

Is it less serious
Is it not worth worrying about
Am I wasting your time
If it isn’t accompanied by
Suicidal ideations?

My Neighbor Lily (a Literotica Story)

              Lily drove a gray Prius, had an English bulldog, dressed in workout clothes generally, and drew my attention every time she stepped out of her house from the moment three years ago when she moved into the house across the street from us.  She also had a habit of leaving the blinds to her living room open.

              Thankfully my wife didn’t mention the attractive new neighbor, because I would’ve either had to admit that I noticed her good looks or lied, which would likely have had the same end result as admitting.  Instead I just looked from afar, peeked when I could.  I noticed when she would leave from work; when she’d walk Johnny the bulldog; when she’d get home from work; what hours she’d be on the couch walking TV.  We met about six months after she moved in when I finally timed my early evening walk with my blue nose pit Hercules.  After that we’d smile and wave anytime we saw each other.

              About a year ago, my wife was out of town for work, and I was taking advantage of the freedom to really indulge in some porn without feeling rushed.  When given the chance, I like to lay a blanket on the bed, set up my laptop, and use a lot of lube and just edge for hours.  I can’t remember what I was watching before Hercules started barking, but I had to rush upstairs to get him to stop.  I ran up the stairs into the living room, cock lubed and still in hand, yelling at Hercules to cut it out.  It was a warm spring evening, all the windows were open, and my voice must have carried, because as I approached Hercules at the window I noticed Lily’s head jerk towards my house as she walked Johnny. 

              Now, I have to admit, I’ve been known to enjoy some exhibitionism from time to time, and I certainly enjoy walking around the house naked and alone, feeling a breeze blow across my skin.  But you’ll have to believe me when I say I really wasn’t trying to be seen naked at that point, and being seen cock in hand was definitely not my preferred approach to keeping Lily on my friendly side.  So, feeling like I had no other options, I pretended as best I could to be unaware of her presence and went about calming Hercules as if there were no audience.  I got his attention, lured him off the chair by the window, and walked over to close the shades.  As I went to close the shades, as I pretended not to know Lily was just across the street, my mind was suddenly even more aware that she was just across the street, and my hand instinctively stroked my dick, feeling the slickness of the lube rub over the tip of my cock.  Even more aware now, I went to close the blinds, and risked one last look.

              Lily was staring right at me with a smirk on her face.

              I walked back downstairs with my heart racing and my legs shaking with adrenaline.  She had seen me.  Fully naked.  Cock hard and in my hand.  She had seen my hand sliding up and down my shaft.  And just the thought made me thicker and ready to cum.

              I said I didn’t know what I was watching before Hercules started barking, but I know exactly what I watched that night after the incident.  There’s a video of an Asian woman at Baker Beach in San Francisco, and while I know it’s not Lily, every time I come across it I pretend it’s her. 

https://xhamster.com/videos/asian-nude-playing-at-baker-beach-2-9814824

This particular night I went into my favorites and cued it up again, this time watching the woman naked except for a hat and sunglasses imagining she’s watching me naked at the same time behind those shades.  The thought sent me into orgasmic convulsions.

              And ever since then, Lily became an obsession.

              I timed my walks with Hercules to avoid her for a while, fearful that her face would show something.  But eventually we ran into each other again, and bless Lily’s heart, she made no mention and showed no indication that she felt the need to say anything about my caught masturbation.  She did, however, mention that she had just started on a new at home workout program, because her work gym had closed due to budge cuts.  I asked if she worked out before work, but she said she never had the energy first thing in the morning.  After a pause, with her eyes straight ahead, she casually said she likes to be as cool as possible when she works out, so she likes to do it late at night with the windows open.  I asked if she wasn’t too tired after work and worried she would skip the workout.  She said no, that she was a night owl.  How late will you be working out then, I asked.  Oh, around midnight, she said, before saying goodbye and heading straight towards the beach while Johnny and I turned to make our circuit around the block.

              Of course I couldn’t sleep that night.

              So I quietly crawled out of bed and went upstairs to the living room.  With the lights off, I stood at the corner of my large picture frame window, and peeked across the street at Lily’s house.  As usual her blinds were open, along with two of her windows this time.  The living room light was off, but the hallway light cast enough light to show her stretching, arms overhead, before bending over into a deep bend.  She stood back up, put her arms out at her side, then spread her legs and turned away into a warrior pose.  Lily wore black yoga pants and a black sports bra, with her hair tied back in a ponytail.  I stood there in my boxers, transfixed.  She went through a few more yoga poses before beginning some jumping jacks.  After that she dropped below my view, but I could occasionally see her ponytail pup up into view.  Pushups I thought.  Then she was gone completely, and after a few more minutes I considered giving up on the show.

              Just when I planned on heading back downstairs, she reappeared.  She walked over to the third window, the one farthest away from the corner of my window.  I watched her lift the last window, stick her head out for air, then stand upright with her toned stomach right up against the night air.  Then without my even considering it, she slid off her yoga pants, revealing bright red thong panties.  She resumed her spot in the middle of the room and began doing burpies.

              I was rock hard, and I felt my dick slip out of the slit in my boxers.  I stuffed it back inside, but it was just uncomfortable, so instead I slid my shorts off and moved the chair Hercules liked to use to keep an eye on the neighborhood to face Lily’s house and sat down, cock in hand, and began jacking off.  I was unashamed, I was shameless, I was as turned on as I’d ever been.  Lily, with her tight abs, full sized breasts, strong shoulders, was back to doing yoga poses, but this time with her back to me, her ass fully visible surround her red thong.  It was round, firm, perfect.  I wanted to bite it. 

              I was allowed freedom to look without any fear of being seen for a while, but the truth is I didn’t give a shit.  She could look all she wanted as far as I cared.  I was fully erect, thick, and I’ve never been ashamed of my body.  I work out regularly, eat mostly well, and can claim to look pretty good for my 40 years on this earth.

              Lily turned back around after a few minutes and dropped down into some hamstring stretches before shaking herself loose and walking towards the windows.  She lowered the farthest from me first, then the middle.  She walked to the third, put her whole body in front of it, and opened the window fully, feeling the night air against her skin.

              Then she looked right at me.  Not a sweeping look around; not a glance that caught some movement and returned; but a full, straight on look directly to where I sat, my dick wrapped in my hand.  Her expression didn’t change at all.  She just looked right at me, then pulled her sports bra up over her head and dropped her panties.  She stood there fully naked for another fifteen seconds or so, the air rushing at her sweaty skin, eyes trained right on me.  It was hard to tell from that distance, but my gut told me she was staring directly into my eyes, focusing more on my lustful thoughts than my hand working my cock.

              Lily closed the window, then walked backwards towards her couch, her eyes never leaving mine.  She climbed backwards up her couch so that her feet were on the seat and her firm ass was on the back with her own back up against her living room wall.  She put both her hands to her side, a tripod on the couch, and spread her legs for me to see her whole world.  Her pussy was completely waxed or shaved, and even from the distance I could see her glistening with moisture.  I wanted to dive between her legs and devour her.

              She reached up with her hand and grabbed her breast, and used her other hand to begin rubbing up and down her wet slit.  I slid a little lower in my chair, pushed my hips forward a little, raised my dick a little higher.  Lily responded by taking her left hand away from her breast and sliding a finger into her pussy while her right hand rubbed her clit.  Her eyes closed as she let herself enjoy the feelings.  I wasn’t sure if I enjoyed the freedom of being able to watch without her eyes on me more or if I preferred the intense eye contact.

              I let my boxers drop the rest of the way off my thighs and sat there naked facing Lily.  She opened her eyes, and I increased the tempo of my strokes.  I could feel my heart beating,  and I could feel myself getting closer to orgasm.  I didn’t want it to end.  Lily slowed the rubbing of her clit, then stilled completely.  I stopped stroking, hand gripping my cock tight, not sure what move to make or not make.  Then, with a grin I could barely see from so far, she took her left hand away from her pussy and raised it up to me.  I was motionless, transfixed.  She looked frustrated, raised her hand a little more, shook it.  Unsure but thinking I knew what she meant, I took my left hand and raised it in return.  Lily smiled broadly.

              She then took her left middle finger, put it in her mouth, then removed it, all the while looking at me expectantly.  When nothing further happened, I let my mind spin for a while, before settling on the only thing I could figure she meant.  I put my left middle finger in my own mouth and sucked on it.  This was apparently the right thing to do, as Lily smiled broadly, and slid her middle finer right into her ass.  Her eyes slowly closed as the finger pushed in, and she opened them to look at me, her eyes telling me what to do.  So I did it.  I took my moist middle finger and slid it into my asshole facing her window.  My ass stretched then clenched on my finger.

              This must have been what Lily wanted, because her rhythm increased, her eyes closed, and I began stroking faster to match her.  I could see her finger moving in and out of her ass before she added her ring finger as well.  With her hole stretched further, she shoved the fingers in a little further, let them be, and began rubbing her clit vigorously.  Her motion was a blur from across the street and in the semi-dark.  I could feel myself getting closer, but I knew I needed to wait for her orgasm. 

              The moment it hit her her head threw back, and I could see her abs tighten, then convulse several times.  Her fingers slipped out of her ass and grabbed the material of the couch as her body convulsed.  I continued stroking, but much more carefully, my eyes staring hard at Lily, willing her to understand how much I liked her naked her body, her freedom, her beauty, her orgasm.  When her body finally relaxed, she lowered her head and gazed back to me.  It was my turn.  Not taking my eyes off her, I began stroking with a regular rhythm.  I took my finger out of my ass and pushed my hand up beneath my balls to feel the pressure.  Lily slid down to the seat of the couch, but left her legs wide open for me to stare at her clean pussy lips.  I could feel it coming, and I mouthed the words “I’m going to cum”  Lily nodded, ran her tongue across her lips, and this approval was enough, as I exploded to feel the cum splash up against my left cheek and shoulder, then wave after wave hit me with cum shooting out of my tip.

              The comedown was incredible, the swirl of excitement, peace, joy, and anxiousness combining to leave me with a dumb grin on my face.  I opened my eyes to see Lily walking towards her window.  She raised her blinds fully, leaned forwards, and placed her lips to the windowpane, then walked away giving me a heartachingly seductive view of her swishing hips and juicy booty.

Unconscious Thoughts

I’ve been thinking a lot about the unconscious lately. I’ve never been a big believer that there was a separate part of your mind called the unconscious. I always just felt like your mind is your mind, that it sometimes thinks this way, it sometimes thinks that way. But this book, Existential Kink, has me thinking otherwise.

One of the central ideas of the book is that if unexamined, the unconscious mind gets what it wants. If you want to know what your unconscious mind wants, just look around. So, for example, if you are always broke, your unconscious mind wants it that way for some reason. You unconsciously want to struggle, or you unconsciously are thrilled by the stress of anxiety that comes from scarcity. The idea is that if there’s a goal you have consciously but always seem to just fall short of, maybe your unconscious is sabotaging you.

Speaking of Sabotage

Which brings me to book number two. I haven’t actually “read” a Gary Bishop book, but I’ve listened to two of them. There’s something wonderful about his Scottish pragmatism. And the accent.

But, speaking of sabotage, Gary says we all have three saboteurs, three stories we tell ourselves, one about our selves, one about other people, and one about the world itself. And his point is these stories we tell ourselves are used as our identity, our belief system. So the story you tell about yourself might be “I’m no good.” One might argue that this may be a reasonable belief, that maybe you’ve done some shitty things in life, so therefore you’ve proven that you’re no good. Gary’s point is that you will unconsciously make sure to reinforce that you’re no good. You might be on your way to completing a project at work, but you’ll manage to fall just short, miss a deadline, misplace something, not gather your thoughts the night before a presentation then show up underprepared. All just to unconsciously reinforce your belief in yourself, to strengthen your identity.

In Existential Kink Carolyn Elliott repeatedly shares a Carl Jung quote: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.” She argues, like Bishop, that if you are unaware of the story you unconsciously tell yourself, you will continue to perpetuate it. In fact, she argues, you will seek it out because you actually crave some portion of it. You “get off” on the thrill of anxiety, the rush of fear that comes from failing and being criticized.

Where does this leave me? Well, a few thoughts.

1) I’ve got my three saboteurs. I suck. People suck. Life is hard.

2) If, as Carolyn Elliott argues, you can tell what your unconscious wants by what you have, I want to not have sex, to have things pile up on me because I procrastinate, to not be in the kind of shape I think I want to be in. But, when I dive a little deeper, I think what my unconscious really wants is to suffer – to suffer so that I can then reach out to people (women) and have them reassure and comfort me. I guess I “get off” on receiving acceptance, comforting, nurturing from females. So, to get back to my first saboteur, “I suck,” so that I’ll be able to point to my suffering and receive comforting from women. I think my unconscious also causes me to procrastinate to the point that someone needs to give me a kick in the ass to get things done. This strengthens my identity of sucking, but it also fulfills another unconscious desire which is to have someone tell me what to do. (And speaking of “getting off” on our unconscious desires, this ties in nicely with a quite erotic sexting session I had recently where a woman took charge and told me what to do and had me sucking on her strapon before she fucked me with it. A story for another time perhaps.)

3) It’s one thing to figure out what my unconscious wants; but it’s a completely different task to figure out what it is my unconscious is keeping me from achieving when I can’t really pinpoint my conscious wants. I don’t know what it is I really want to achieve.

Here’s another thing: Existential Kink focuses primarily on the unconscious desires that are holding us back from something, those that are negative to our daily life. But there are unconscious desires that can be positive as well. For example, if you believe that your unconscious gets what it wants, my unconscious wants security and comfort. I have a great, steady job; I have a home; I have consistency and comfort in my life.

But I don’t have a clue what I want to pursue. I want to harness the power of the unconscious mind and use it in tandem with the conscious mind to reach heights I never believed achievable. If only I could figure out what mountain I was trying to climb.

Book Review – White Tears

I’m often quick to give up on a book. I’m a firm believer that it’s the author’s job to pique my interest, not my job to slog through something just to figure out their message. So when it comes to White Tears it’s a good thing the first half actually came first. I was sucked in early on. I enjoyed the whole scene, the style, the feeling, the characters, the intrigue.

It devolved for me, though. The second half is written so that you feel his descent into madness or whatever it is. Time keeps folding on itself. The narrator keeps losing his thread. And all of that is cool, but it doesn’t stop. It’s 150 pages of short sentences and a spiral into psychosis.

In the end it’s saved somewhat by its message. The rich, white family has a history of black subjugation, indentured servitude through policing once slavery was erased. The elite staying rich at the expense of the poor. And, of course, some cultural appropriation thrown in there to boot, with some guilt, or lack thereof.

I would say I don’t regret reading it. I didn’t dislike it.

But it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be by how quickly it sucked me in.

Random Thoughts Today

Two things that people have said in front of me that maybe aren’t related, maybe are related, but that either way I’ve been thinking about together lately.

1) “I don’t know what it is that’s made it so hard for black people in this country to assimilate.”

and

2) This one won’t be quoted exactly, but the sentiment was that when Michelle Obama said “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country….” it was the worst thing a first lady could say (even though she wasn’t first lady yet when she said it) and that it was an embarrassment to have that feeling.

So. To the first thought all I could think was, “um…. slavery?”

And in the way that I think these two are related, to the second I was reminded of Neal Brennan’s 3 Mics standup, where he says, “Slavery is such a big deal. It’s such a big deal. If I were black, I would talk about it constantly… if a cop stops me and he’s like you know why I pulled you over? I’d be like, ‘to apologize for slavery?'”


Here’s why I think it’s so hard for white people. And I should point out (probably unnecessarily, but still) that both of those thoughts came from white republicans. But I think the reason it’s so difficult for white people (Yes, I’m white) to wrap our minds around the true extent of racism and prejudice experienced by black people today is that when we are taught about slavery and the civil war and Jim Crow and Martin Luther King, Jr it’s all lumped together in a nice little package of history. It’s something that happened in the past, a story arc that goes from really shitty people in the past having really shitty ideas about people, but then in a very linear path good sense and reason emerged and we overcame such nonsense.

And now it’s all over.

Like slavery and prejudice was a small piece of insanity akin to the Salem witch trials.

Hence white people thinking “that’s ridiculous, that’s in the past. The past was so stupid. We’re so much smarter now.”

Which leads me to the second thought specifically and back to Neal Brennan. Neal opens with “I hang out with a lot of black dudes.” And that changes everything. When I was younger I was lucky to have been the only white guy in rooms of black people, families of black people. I’ve also been the only white guy in Asian families. If you are the only white person, and if you are self aware enough to shut the fuck up and let yourself be forgotten, the people in the room will eventually let you see their reality. I can remember time after time my friend’s cousin saying something about white people and then remembering I was there and saying, “no offense.”

And if you’ve ever had the experience that Neal and I have had you know that being black in America means slavery is not a dead period in a history book. Jim Crow didn’t happen to the nameless dead from the past, it happened to fathers and grandfathers – and sometimes you yourself.

Imagine being punched in the face by your doctor and being told to stop living in the past and go to your checkup for your own good.

The punch didn’t happen to people from four hundred years ago, it happened to you. You warn your children to not go to the doctor because he’ll punch you in the face and tell you it’s for your health.

White people don’t understand that it’s not history. It’s life. I mean, look at how fucking enraged white people became at the idea of “Black lives matter.” If you instinctively fight the idea that black people are concerned for their safety and feel like their lives should be valued, then you have never had to worry for your own safety, have never had to give your children special instructions to make sure they walk back in the door safely.

We as white people grow up with Black History Month and see it as history. A small, 1/12th of importance history.

But there are people driving around with Confederate flags on their cars. Those flags represent a side of the Civil War that fought and killed for the right to continue slavery. If black people had a symbol that represented the belief that white lives didn’t matter the whites in this country would lose their fucking minds.

And that leads me to a third thing I heard from a white republican recently. This guy said he heard a white guy say, “fucking white people.” He thought that was ridiculous and the guy should just kill himself if he felt that way.

Well, if you’ve ever been let into the world of black people like Neal Brennan, you completely understand the Michelle Obama sentiment. And if you understand that as a white person, then you can also have felt deep in your being the sentiment “FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE.”