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Saturday, July 04, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 6

"Don't suffocate him, Eunectis" Eryx said.

"I'm only going to give him a little kiss with my pussy," Eunectis said.

She squatted down and the light was shut out as her ass descended.  Cohen was enveloped first by the thick aroma of her sex and then the flesh of her ass as she sat on his face.  Cohen couldn't twist his head away.  She followed him, keeping her pussy pressed tightly over his nose and mouth.  Her felt the soft lips of her pussy brush against his face.  They gaped wide and the dark space was filled with the sinful perfume of her sex.  The scent rushed straight through his body and filled his straining balls.  Eryx pressed down with her thighs again the thick cream squished around Cohen's over-sensitized penis.  The sensations tickled up his shaft in moist waves.

Oh god, Cohen thought.

His balls clenched as though they'd been gripped in a fist.  His spine bucked and the most powerful ejaculation he'd ever felt erupted from his cock.  He gasped but not through lack of air—Eunectis had already lifted her smothering ass.  His body shuddered and convulsed uncontrollably.  That out of control train had smashed into a wall at the end of the line and was now so much wreckage.  His semen bubbled up out of his twitching erection like a geyser.  His own cream was mixing with the cream in the bag.

Eryx and Eunectis stood up off his wriggling form and stared down at him with sultry smiles.  Estrumpthia walked up to them, still pressing the rubber cup to her crotch.  Like the other two she'd changed, but her pale skin had a bluish tinge rather than red.  Like the other two she had horns, wings and a tail.

She looked down at Cohen and licked her lips.  "Mmm, the sight of a human thrashing around in helpless ecstasy makes me so horny."

She pressed the funnel-type adaptor at the end of the pipe tight to her pussy, squatted and pressed her hips forward.  Cohen heard a loud and strangely erotic liquid sound.  More soft cream flowed up against Cohen's body.  He groaned as his balls clenched and he emptied another thick stream of cum into the bag.  The ejaculation wasn't stopping.  He felt the pleasure spin on and on as a constant stream of semen flowed up his erection in steady pulses.

Estrumpthia removed the cup from her vagina and Cohen saw her labia were speckled with pinkish-white froth.  She unscrewed the funnel attachment from the end of the pipe and passed the pipe to Eryx.  The other girl screwed a nozzle attachment onto the end.  It looked like the end of a hookah pipe, but larger.

Cohen looked at the devil girls with fearful eyes.  It was getting harder to concentrate.  The sensations inundated his thoughts in the same way the soft cream surrounded his body.

"Wha...?" he muttered thickly.

His body was no longer his.  His hips kept twitching as semen poured out of him in an endless succession of spurts.

Eunectis crouched down next to him.  He saw her smiling face above the large round swells of her breasts.

"You're our little shiborito in the bag," she said.  "Estrumpthia has filled it up with her special vaginal secretions.  They've soaked into you.  You're coming out your life and soul, and we're going to slurp it all up in our lovely pussies."

Eryx squatted down on the other side of the bag and inserted the nozzle between the folds of her vagina.  Her abdomen gave a little flex and the pipe was sucked deeper inside her.  The noises started then—like thick cream being sucked up through a straw.  Cohen felt a strange tugging sensation focused on his crotch.

Eryx opened her eyes and sighed.

"Delicious," she said.

She handed the pipe to Estrumpthia, who also inserted it up into her sex.

"There's no need to be anxious," Eunectis whispered to Cohen.  "It feels nice."

The horrible liquid sucking sounds started up again.

Cohen didn't feel anxious.  Estrumpthia's secretions had soaked into his skin and coated his nerve endings in cotton wool.  He felt like he was floating in a warm fluffy cloud.  His writhing had quietened down to little twitches every time he released a spurt of cum into the bag.

It felt so good—warm and comfortable.  He was no longer sure if he was inside the bag or the bag.  He felt like he was floating around inside an outer skin of black latex—not solid or liquid.

Estrumpthia took her time with the nozzle.  She sighed in pleasure as her vagina clamped around it and she sucked up the cream in the bag.

It wasn't just the cream around him she was sucking, it felt like they were sucking up him.  He released his essence up into the bag and she drew part of it up into her body, leaving him diminished in the process.

And Cohen no longer cared.  The pleasure had overwhelmed and subsumed his mind.  All he cared about was the orgasm still rumbling through him, still coaxing his body to ejaculate more and more.  He lay back and floated on a cloud of pleasure as his life, essence and soul pulsed out into the bag.

The succubi passed the nozzle amongst themselves.  They sucked up the cream and essence until the bag began to deflate.  The black rubber crinkled up and subsided as the succubi sighed in satisfaction as they sucked more and more out of the bag.  The vac-bed wrinkled up and the man inside wrinkled up with it.

Eryx's vagina clenched around the pipe and drew out the last dregs with a ghastly slurping sound.

"A most satisfactory present from Ms Brite," she said.

On the floor the glossy black rubber sheets were wrinkled as they tightly wrapped a human form.  This human form also looked as though all the air had been pumped out of him.  A face that was little more than skin stretched over a skull stared out of a circular opening in the top sheet.  The shrivelled lips were stretched taut in a ghastly grin.

"And we even cured his anxiety," Eunectis said.


THE END

Friday, July 03, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 5

"What's going on?" he asked.

Had someone changed the lights?  Erica looked different.  Her skin colour was darker, redder.

"Special sauce to marinade the meat," she said.

Esther moaned again and pushed her crotch forward.  How could she be producing all this?  It was up to his crotch and—

Cohen closed his eyes.  The warm creamy substance had enveloped his balls.  His erection, which had softened slightly as his unease had grown, sprang back to full attention.  The rubber top sheet of the vac-bed tented upwards with the throbbing bar of his hard-on.  The tenting grew less pronounced as more cream flowed into the bag.

It was over his chest now.  It surrounded his arms, it enfolded his hands and he felt it squelch between his fingers.  It drove his nerve endings wild.  It was like lying in a big bath of crackly foam with no water.  Cohen wanted more and more of it and Esther obliged.  Sighing and gasping in the throes of an orgasm that seemed to have no end, she pumped more and more thick cream into the bag.  Moments before, Cohen had felt like he'd been shrink-wrapped.  Now he felt like he was lying at the heart of a giant fluffy pillow.  The black rubber surface swelled up all around him.

Hot flashes pulsed through him.  They pulsed and pulsed and focused on his balls and penis until his whole crotch was glowing with warmth.  The cream slithered all around him and engulfed his twitching erection.  Cohen felt the urge to wrap a hand around his cock and rub the pleasant cream into his shaft.  He couldn't move.  Not because the rubber sheets were wrapped too tightly around him, but because the warm creamy substance had sapped all the energy right out of him.  It was like lying in a warm bed in an icy room and feeling too comfortable to move.  The vac-bed continued to swell up as more and more thick cream piled up around him.

Erica sat astride him, or rather sat astride the swollen bag.  He felt the pressure of her legs transmit through the bag and move the wonderful cream against his body.  He looked up at her through a haze of pleasure.

His brow wrinkled.  Something wasn't right.

Her pale skin was flushed.  No, it was more than that.  Her skin was red, deep red all the way through as though she was so full of blood it had leaked out underneath her skin.  And her eyes... what had happened to her eyes?  He looked up into black pits that looked as though they fell all the way into hell itself.  Were those...?  There were horns on her head and he watched as black bat wings unfurled behind her.

Hallucination.  He must be hallucinating.

"Comfortable?" Erica asked.

Her voice was wrong too.  There were weird inflections to the edges, like metal on metal.

Where was the panic?  Where was the anxiety?  Despite Erica's sudden, demonic change of appearance he felt relaxed and languid.  This was a total contrast to his brain, which was screaming wrong, wrong, wrong!

Erica bent over and hugged the swollen bag.  Her large breasts—uncovered now, nipples dark like dried blood—pressed against the rubber above his chest.  He felt the pressure come through the bag and thick cream.

"How does it feel—nice and creamy?" Erica asked.

She hugged the bag tighter and rubbed her pendulous breasts against the shiny black surface.

"Let me massage it into your flesh," she said.

She squeezed and hugged.  Her hips moved up and down as she ground her sex against the bag.  Her movements started currents in the substance that filled the bag.  Cohen writhed in helpless pleasure as the warm cream squished against his body.  He let out an involuntary moan as more hot flashes raced across his sensitised skin.  Thick currents stirred his throbbing manhood.  It felt like cream-covered fingers were tickling up and down his hard-on.

"He's nearly ready," Erica called back to the girl on the bed.  "One more squirt, Estrumpthia."

"Mmm, I'll give him a nice thick one, Eryx," Esther said, her voice also picking up strange alien cadences.

She let out another loud sigh.  The pipe vibrated.  More slippery cream—a thick bulge—slithered down the tube and mushroomed up around Cohen.  His eyelids flickered as more of the warm cream enveloped him.

"Feels nice, doesn't it," Eryx said.  "Like being wrapped in a giant wet womb."

She wriggled her body on top of him.  Her arms and thighs squeezed the swollen bag and he felt the thick cream squidge against his skin.  All of Cohen's nerve endings felt amplified, as if the slightest breath had the force of a bomb.  The devil girl on top of him pressed her waist down and her motions stirred the electrifying cream around his cock.

Fuck, he was going to come.  Really come.  Come so hard it would be painful.

"Yes, let it out," the devil girl writhing on top of him exhorted with a breathy sigh.  "Let it all out."

What was happening?  Cohen felt so good and yet weirdly wrong.  His body felt like a train accelerating down a track with no buffers.

"Need help?" Eunice said, her voice like blades slathered in honey.

Like Eryx her skin had darkened to a deep red colour.  She even had a devil tail.  He saw it as she stood over him.  He looked up into the moist lips of her sex and watched as they gaped open and shut like a mouth.

"Don't suffocate him, Eunectis" Eryx said.

"I'm only going to give him a little kiss with my pussy," Eunectis said.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 4

"And brilliant," Cohen continued.  "Who'd have thought it?  Here I am, shrink-wrapped like a turkey and I don't feel any anxiety at all.  Annette Brite is a genius."

Erica gave him a sly glance.  "She has her uses," she said.

Esther threw her head back and moaned.  Her body flexed and she pushed her hips against Eunice's face as the other girl continued to perform cunnilingus on her.

"I'm ready," Esther said, her voice breathy.  "Bring the pipe."

Eunice stood up and walked over to the hanging vac-bed.  She gave Cohen a teasing smile as she picked up the other end of the trailing air hose that led to the vac-bed.  Curious, Cohen watched as she pulled an object out of a box and screwed it onto the end of the pipe.  It looked like a mask, like maybe something a dentist might have given a patient to breathe from back in the old days.  Or possibly an athletic cup.  It had the same shape and was made out of black rubber.

On the bed Esther continued to frig herself towards orgasm.  Her moans and sighs grew louder and louder.  Behind her Erica continued to massage and play with the soft flesh of her boobs while kissing her on the back of her neck and shoulders.  Eunice held the plastic funnel thing a little way from Esther's vagina, keeping out of the way while Esther masturbated.  Cheeks flushed red, Esther nodded to Eunice and the other girl passed her the end of the pipe.  Esther pressed the black rubber object tight to her crotch, making the resemblance between it and an athletic cup even more pronounced.

What was going on here? Cohen thought.  It hadn't escaped his attention that the black rubber cup was attached to the end of the same pipe that led back to the bag he was currently sealed inside.  Was she going to squirt into it, or maybe even pee?  He'd told them he didn't want anything gross done to him.

Although he did feel a little thrill of excitement at the thought.

"Make it nice and thick and creamy," Eunice said, running a hand down Esther's pale arm.

"Mmm.  It'll be really thick and creamy," Esther said.  She writhed and pressed her hips up against the rubber cup between her legs.

Erica and Eunice walked towards Cohen with mischief in their eyes.

"What's going on?" Cohen asked.

Erica put a finger to her moist, bee-stung lips.

They were playing with him, that's all.  More teasing.

Cohen wasn't sure.  There was a prickly feeling on the back of his neck.  Some atavistic sense was warning him of danger in the same way animals knew to find shelter before a storm hits.

No, no.  It was more teasing.  They were just playing with him.

Esther gave a loud orgasmic groan and flexed her spine as she pushed her hips out with the rubber cup still pressed to her crotch.  Cohen heard an odd, thick, slithery sound—like thick mud moving through a pipe.  Esther sighed and moaned and her body trembled.  More liquid sounds vibrated down the pipe.  It sounded like way more than a little squirt of love juice, more even than a good hard piss.

And far far thicker.

Cohen should have been excited—sexually excited—at the sight of a hot girl obviously orgasming right in front of him, but that prickly sensation on the back of his neck was growing harder and harder to ignore.

Erica kissed him on the cheek with soft lips.

Hot lips.

And hot in the boiling-kettle sense, not in the XXX-strip-show-hot sense.  Almost hot enough to scald him.  What was going on?  No girl's lips should feel as hot as that.

Erica and Eunice gripped the sides of the vac-bed and lifted it up off the hooks suspended from the ceiling.  They laid him flat on the floor.

"Hey hey," Cohen said.  He tried to move his limbs, but his body was still vacuum-packed in place.

"Mmm, I'd like to sit on his face and smother him with my ass," Eunice said.

"And miss his sighs as Estrumpthia's cream fills his bag..." Erica said.

Over on the bed Esther gave another loud orgasmic cry.  Erica crouched down, turned a valve at the bottom of the bag and the corner swelled up as something rushed in.  Cohen's eyes widened as he felt a warm, moist and weirdly fluffy substance envelop his foot.  What was that?  It felt like the froth and bubbles from a bubble bath, but thicker—squishy like warm mud.  His toes squelched through it and his skin lit up with a pleasant tingling sensation.  Those tingles tickled up the nerves of his leg and nested in his balls.  He liked it so much he started wiggling his toes to repeat the sensation.

There was more.  The substance flowed down the pipe into the bag in a slow, thick wave.  Surely this all couldn't be coming out of Esther's pussy.  It wasn't possible.  The corner of the bag continued to swell and the foam rolled up past his foot and engulfed his ankle.

Cohen blinked.  More tingling pleasure pirouetted up his leg like crackly static electricity.  He wanted more, wanted to be enveloped in it completely, wanted to bathe fully in whatever it was.  But the hairs kept prickling on the back of his neck.  The storm was coming and the force would tear him to pieces.

He heard Esther give another orgasmic moan and then more of those thick, slithery sounds—like slime sliding down a pipe.  More of the bag filled out and that wave of tingling pleasure rolled up to his thighs.

"What's going on?" he asked.

Had someone changed the lights?  Erica looked different.  Her skin colour was darker, redder.

"Special sauce to marinade the meat," she said.


Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 3

"We've tied you up..." Erica started.

"...now we tease you," Eunice finished.

Erica and Eunice embraced and came together in a sloppy and extremely passionate kiss right in front of him.

Oh wow, Cohen thought.

It wasn't a quick peck either.  Their hands roamed over each other's bodies as their lips locked and their tongues tangled.

"Don't leave me out," Esther said.

She sat on the glossy black bed at the back of the room and kicked off her white stiletto heels.

"Of course not," Eunice said after breaking her amorous embrace with Erica.

"Don't go anywhere," Erica turned and said to Cohen with a smile that indicated she knew perfectly well he couldn't.

Cohen attempted a shrug.  It was about all the movement he could manage at the moment.

Grinning from ear to ear, he watched as Erica and Eunice walked over and joined Esther on the bed.  Were they really going to put on a show for him?  It looked that way as Erica and Eunice sat either side of Esther.  Esther turned to Erica and their full lips came together in a kiss.  On the other side Eunice left a line of kisses down Esther's neck.  Her hand pawed at and squeezed at the considerable bulge of Esther's breast.  The girls started to moan and sigh as they got more into it.

Esther switched her attentions to Eunice and their lips met in another frenzied bout of kissing.  The hands of the girls slid over and fondled each other's bodies.  Cohen, suspended in the vac-bed, watched with mounting fascination.  He'd never seen anything like this before, not in the flesh.

They peeled off the shiny rubber layers of their clothing, like presents unwrapped on Christmas Day long after the children had gone to bed for the night.  Esther's vinyl bra was first to go.  Cohen's smile grew broader as the pale mounds of Esther's chest became visible.  They were an impressive pair—big and firm.  Each round mound was topped with a pointed nipple surrounded by a pale pink disc.

That was some pair, Cohen thought.  Erica and Eunice seemed inclined to agree.  Their heads bobbed down and Esther tipped her head back and sighed as Erica and Eunice flicked her nipples with moist tongues.

Cohen watched them wishing he could join in.  He supposed that was the point of the tease.  Cohen squirmed as his swelling erection slid up against his belly.  He would have liked to wrap his hand around it, but the vac-bed allowed no movement.

The three girls were really into each other.  Things were getting well and truly XXX-rated on the bed.  Erica and Eunice briefly stood up to remove their shiny panties and fishnet stockings.  Esther didn't need to do the same as Erica and Eunice removed her clothes for her.

Now that all three were fully naked, Cohen was staggered by the perfection of their bodies.  Top porn stars didn't look this good.  What were they doing here, in some shitty little back-alley BDSM dungeon?  He wondered how much Erica had meant when she'd said "that costs extra," because he'd definitely pay if he could afford it.

Erica and Eunice returned to the swollen goodness of Esther's boobs.  The sucked on her nipples with sensual lips while their hands rubbed against the mound of her pussy.  Esther gave out a series of short little gasps as nimble fingers crept between the folds of her labia.

Cohen was hard enough for the enveloping rubber sheet to feel uncomfortably tight around his straining erection.  If only he could reach his cock.  That was the point though, to keep him frustrated and let the sexual tension build and build.  It was effective.  Having his body constrained like this would normally set off his anxiety.  Thanks to the girls' little 'show' he was too distracted.

Eunice went down on her knees between Esther's legs.  She buried her face in Esther's crotch and worked her tongue against the other woman's pussy.  Erica stood up on the bed with her legs apart and posed for Cohen as Esther tilted her head up and lapped at her sex.

"Like the show?" Erica asked Cohen.

"Loving it," Cohen called back.  "You know, I thought she was mad when she suggested this.  When I went into her shop looking for something to calm me down and relax me I thought she'd recommend some herbal bath, or maybe a massage.  Instead she suggests I visit a dominatrix dungeon instead.  Crazy."

Erica sat behind Esther.  Her hands massaged the creamy curves of Esther's breasts while the other girl twisted her head to the side to kiss her.  Eunice continued her merciless attack on Esther's pussy with her tongue.  Both Erica and Eunice focused their attentions on the girl between them without thought to their own pleasure.  Red flushes blemished Esther's otherwise pristine skin and her thighs trembled as her resistance crumbled beneath their ministrations.

"And brilliant," Cohen continued.  "Who'd have thought it?  Here I am, shrink-wrapped like a turkey and I don't feel any anxiety at all.  Annette Brite is a genius."


uh oh, it wasn't Inari that sent him here.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 2

"Oh," Eunice's eyes lit up.  "Why don't we try out that new vac-bed?"

"Oh yes."  Erica ran a tongue over her bee-stung lips.  "What a good idea."

"Vac-bed?" Cohen queried.

"Go and get Esther to fetch it down," Erica said.  "Then we can see what Mr Cohen thinks."

Eunice went away and returned with another statuesque, voluptuous beauty.  Cohen's eyes boggled.  He was starting to wonder if he'd stepped through the door and somehow been teleported to Silicone Valley on the other side of the world.  Where else would he see so many busty beauties other than on the set of an expensive porn film?

The new girl, Esther, was pale-skinned almost to the point of alabaster.  She had blue eyes, long silky platinum-blonde hair and a shy smile.  She and Eunice were carrying some kind of long metal frame with glossy black latex stretched between it.  Eunice also carried a squat little vacuum cleaner in her other hand.  Intrigued, he watched as they laid the framework out on the floor and attached the black rubber hose that ran out from the bottom corner to the squat little vacuum cleaner.

"Strip off and in you get," Erica said to Cohen.

"Uh?"  He stared at her blankly.

Eunice lifted up a black sheet.  Cohen saw that the item they'd brought down looked like a sleeping bag made out of black latex and stretched across a metal frame.

"You want me to get in there?" he asked.  "Is it safe?"

He didn't want to get suffocated by accident.

"We're using the open face for your first time," Eunice said.  She put her arm through a circular opening in the top sheet.

"Oh, okay."

The three women watched Cohen undress with amused smiles.  Cohen knew he might not be the tallest man in the world, but he hadn't done too badly when they'd been handing out dicks.  The women noticed too.  Erica moistened her lips and Eunice nodded approvingly as he dropped his underpants to his ankles and kicked them away.  He got down and lay between the sheets.  The rubber felt soft and stretchy against his skin.  Eunice pulled the top sheet over him, lining up the hole with his face.  She fastened the sides.

"What's this supposed to achieve," Cohen asked.

The weirdness gave him pleasant little goose bumps, but he failed to see what was special about getting inside a rubber bag.

"It's about ceding control," Erica said.  "Once all the air is sucked out you won't be able to move.  You'll be completely helpless and under our control."

"Ah, that's what the woman said I should do, the one who recommended I visit here.  She said my anxiety stemmed from trust issues and that was causing me to pile too much work on myself.  She said I needed to learn to delegate.  It's tough.  You can't rely on employees nowadays.  It's the kids.  They spend all their time on their iPads and smartphones.  I have to do their work to make sure it gets done.  And then I get stressed out."

Erica crouched down next to him and pushed the opening down.  The rubber stretched around the sides of his face and formed a tight seal.  She brought her face closer, almost as though she was shaping up to plant those full sensual lips on his in a kiss, then pulled away at the last moment.

Tease, Cohen thought.

"The normal top sheet is closed off and only has a little breathing hose for the mouth.  Some people get a thrill from being blind and helpless, knowing their air could be cut off at any moment."

"But not so good with someone that suffers with anxiety," Cohen said.

"We did take that into account," Erica said.

"So I get the training wheels," he said.  It felt like he was staring out through a rubber porthole.

"This model is quite popular with our other clients," Erica said.

"Gives us much better access for when they want us to smother them with our asses," Eunice said.  She turned and pinched the cheek of quite possibly the finest bottom Cohen had ever seen in the flesh.

"Is there a model with another hole, lower down?"  Cohen motioned with his eyes to his crotch.

"That one costs extra," Erica said.

That meant it was possible then, Cohen thought.  He might enquire just how much when arranging his next session.

Eunice flicked the switch on the vacuum cleaner and the motor started up with a whine.  All over his body Cohen felt the supple surface of the latex sheets brush against and wrap around his skin.  He shifted into a more comfortable position as the air was drawn out of the bag and the warm sheets moulded tightly to the contours of his body.  The rubber was so tight it formed a second skin pressing all across his body.  It felt a little unusual—but not really the kind of thing that would have him jizzing in his pants like it probably did for some fetishists.

With Cohen firmly constrained, Erica turned a valve on the bottom of the bed and Eunice disconnected the hose from the vacuum cleaner.

"How does that feel?" Erica asked.

"Like I've been shrink-wrapped," Cohen said, which was more or less the truth.

He wriggled experimentally.  The rubber gave a little, but not much.

"A quite effective form of restraint, would you agree?" Erica said.

He wriggled harder.  The soft latex had formed a second skin encasing him.

"I'm not going anywhere anytime soon," he said.

"That would be the point.  Anxious?"

"A little," Cohen said.  "But I'm guessing that's also the point—to enable me to get over it."

Erica and Eunice gripped each side of the vac-bed and tilted it up to vertical.  Immobilized, Cohen watched them through the face hole as they lifted him up off the floor and attached the frame to hooks hanging down from the ceiling.

"I feel like Han Solo encased in carbonite," Cohen said.

The other girls said nothing.

"Not Star Wars fans then," Cohen said.

Apparently not.  The girls didn't say anything as they stepped back to admire their work.

"What now?" Cohen asked.

"We've tied you up..." Erica started.

"...now we tease you," Eunice finished.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Shiborito in the Bag, part 1

I had to put Okasare Kenny on hold while I sorted some things out as I mentioned last week.  I know some readers weren't too happy with this.  I wasn't either, but I realised I'd spread myself too thin and needed to focus on finishing off the things that had been hanging around for far longer (like Succubus Summoning 201!).  While I straighten out some behind-scenes stuff here's a new story to tide you over until I get some new Sandwiched by shorts out.  It's from my stockpile of already-complete stories waiting for the next collection in case some of you are worried I've lurched off in another direction or whether this one will be left incomplete.

Some of these characters might be familiar...


Shiborito in the Bag

The door was set in an alcove about halfway down a grubby little back alley.  Paul Cohen supposed these places needed to be discreet.  Even so, he was glad it was early in the afternoon and a bright sun—a rare sight for much of this overcast and rainy summer—was high up in the sky.  He wouldn't have relished the prospect of walking down here after the sun went down.

The door was answered by a statuesque blonde and Cohen resisted the strong urge to let his jaw fall open like a trapdoor.  He couldn't resist staring at her bosom.  It was hard to miss.  She was over six foot; he barely made five-and-a-half.  That put her chest right in his eyeline and it was certainly eye-catching.

As big as your head, Cohen thought.

Her boobs were wrapped in extremely tight black latex.  The material was glossy and stretched taut by her considerable chest.  There was nothing covering her midriff and below the waist she was wearing nothing more than glossy black panties and fishnet stockings.

Cohen guessed that meant he had the right place then.

"I'm Paul, Paul Cohen," he said.  "I think we spoke on the phone."

"So we did," the girl who advertised as Mistress Erica said.

Cohen was surprised at how good-looking she was.  Her body was obviously amazing, but a lot of girls of her stature tended to look a little too masculine.  Too rough.  Her body was so amazing that, by rights, her face shouldn't match.  Why else would she be here?  But no, Cohen was wrong on that.  She had the heart-shaped face and delicate features of a real beauty.  Her size was the only thing not feminine about her.  Everything else was front-cover glamour model.  Maybe it was her size that held her back.  She was tall enough to be a catwalk model but was far too curvaceous.  They preferred beanpoles.  Their loss.

"Come in," Mistress Erica said.  Her glossy red lips turned up at the corners in a sultry smile.

Cohen got to admire more of her figure as he crossed the threshold and followed her down a bland corridor.  Her outfit hid hardly anything and Cohen's heart rate quickened as he looked at the enticing swell of her ass.  She looked like the over-glamorised street hooker of film fantasy, but she was right here—in the flesh—before him.

"Um, I've never done this before," Cohen confessed as Erica led him deeper into her parlour.

Mistress Erica looked back at him and smiled.  "That's no problem at all."

"I have problems with anxiety," Cohen continued.  "I get stressed out really easily.  Too easily.  A friend suggested a session with you might help."

"They did," Erica said.

"Yes," Cohen said.  "They said I had problems delegating and trusting others.  They thought it would be good for me to cede control to someone else in a controlled situation."

"Mmm," Erica said.

She led him through a door and into what he assumed was her dungeon.  It looked more Fitness First than medieval.  There were benches, stocks and other unorthodox-looking equipment, but they looked modern and had plenty of padding.  There was even a wide, low bed covered in shiny black material over by the far wall.  Cohen looked around and saw an impressive array of tools on the walls and in stands, ranging from the expected whips and canes to more esoteric instruments Cohen wasn't sure he wanted to know the use of.

"Um, I'm not really into the pain side of this," he said.

"No?" Erica said.  She sounded disappointed.

"I don't want to go that far," he said.  "I don't mind putting you in control for a session but I don't want to get hurt or be forced to do anything really disgusting."

"Hmm."  Erica put a finger to her full lips and pondered.  Cohen noticed she had a false nail that was jet-black in colour and tapered to a long point like a talon.

They were interrupted by the door at the far end of the room opening and another girl walking in.  Like Erica she was statuesque and amply stocked in the bosom department.  As with Erica, her eye-catching bosom stretched her shiny rubber top almost to bursting.  As with Erica, Cohen wondered what someone with such an attractive face and sexy body was doing working in a place like this.  He wondered if they were related.  They looked similar apart from the newcomer being a brunette rather than a blonde like Erica.

"Oh Eunice," Erica said.  "I wonder if you can help Mr Cohen here.  He's come in for a session, but he's new to all this and a little apprehensive."

Cohen nodded.  "I don't want to be hurt," he said.

"We could start him on a little light bondage," Eunice suggested.  "Maybe some tie and tease."

That didn't sound so bad, Cohen thought.

"Oh," Eunice's eyes lit up.  "Why don't we try out that new vac-bed?"


to be continued tomorrow...

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

New Erotic Short - Sandwiched by Slimes

Finally (it's only a couple of weeks late) the second short in the Sandwiched by series is up.  It's not exactly short either.  I got a little carried away and there's over 10K words of slimy fun (for the slime girls, not necessarily their prey ;) ) in this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Sandwiched-Slimes-M-E-Hydra-ebook/dp/B00U89AYEK/ref=la_B00IXOF1I6_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425466412&sr=1-8

It's available for the cheap price of $0.99 from:
Amazon
Smashwords (which will distribute it to other sites)
Kobo

Here's the blurb:


Sandwiched by is a new sexy series of monster girl erotic horror shorts from the master of dark erotica, M.E. Hydra.  This, the second story, “Sandwiched by Slimes”, sees a man engulfed in ecstasy by two sexy slime girls.

Freddy Lamb used to be a normal engineering student like any other.  Now he’s Sir Fredrick of Lamb, a brave adventurer tasked with deposing the villainous sorcerer king of a strange world that resembles a computer role-playing game.  In reality he’d rather escape this crazy computer game world and find a way back home to Earth.  He thinks the exit may lie in an unusual bonus dungeon, but blocking his path are two sexy slime girls, Corybosom and Rubisia.  They intend to envelop him in their gelatinous bodies and melt all his resistance away with pleasure.  They also don’t intend playing by the rules . . .

Sandwiched by.  One dude, two sexy babes.  A perfect fantasy . . . or maybe not . . .


And of course I couldn't leave it there without providing a little snippet to get the blood going:


“Is this a hentai dungeon?” he asked the two slime girls.

They looked as though they didn’t understand his question.  Freddy thought they were pretending.

“I mean, is this a sex dungeon?” he elaborated.

The slime girls’ eyes lit up at the mention of sex.

“We do like sex,” Corybosom said.

“We’re succubus slimes,” Rubisia said.  “It’s what we feed on.”

“Mmm yes.  We like nothing better than slurping all the cum out of a virile man’s body,” Corybosom said.

Freddy blushed.  That confirmed his suspicions at least.  Normal RPGs didn’t go near sex apart from the mildest of innuendo.  But there was a type—a more specialized niche—of RPGs where sex was integral to both the art and gameplay.  Those games were made only in Japan as far as he knew and were most definitely for adults only.

“I know what this is,” he said.  “It’s battlefuck rules.”

The two slime girls pretended not to understand.

“We don’t fight with weapons in here,” Freddy said.  “We fight with sex.”

“This is a sex-themed dungeon,” Rubisia said.

Freddy smiled.  He’d figured it out.  Battlefuck rules.  He didn’t know those games very well, but he’d heard of them.  He thought back to the shop owner who’d sold him the map.  He’d thought the queer leer on the other man’s face was a little odd at the time.  Pervy fucker.  He knew exactly what this dungeon was about.

“So how does this work?  The victor is the one that makes the other come first?” he asked.

“Something like that,” Corybosom said.

She gathered the gelatinous substance of her body together into a big round cushion.  She sat back on it and opened her legs.  Staring directly at Freddy, she reached down between her legs and parted her labia with her fingers.

Freddy took off the armour protecting his legs and removed his undergarments.  His erection popped up and stood out from his crotch.  That’s what no sex at all since arriving on this freaky world did to you, he thought.  Even sentient giant gelatinous blobs started to look sexy after that long.

Corybosom beckoned him on with a finger.  She pouted plump, kissable lips.

Time to see if his theory was correct then, Freddy thought.  He stepped up between her legs.  He put his hands on her hips.  They felt moist and elastic like jelly.  He aimed his cock in the direction of her gaping sex and pushed forwards with his hips.  Corybosom’s head went back and she gave a little “ooh” of pleasure as he entered her.

don’t melt my dick off.  don’t melt my dick off.

She didn’t melt his dick off.  He didn’t feel any acidy burning sensation.  She wasn’t cold and snot-like either.  Instead she felt warm inside and the jellylike substance of her body pressed pleasantly against his erection.  A muscular swell of thicker jelly rolled down his shaft and sucked him deeper into her.

“Mmm, I love the feel of a big hard cock inside me,” Corybosom said.

She crossed her legs behind him.  The rest of her amorphous mass rolled forwards and partially engulfed his legs.  That felt pleasant as well, like dipping his legs in a warm mud bath.  Looking down it was weird to see his cock through her transparent skin.  He could see his foreskin move back and forth as her semi-liquid insides rippled up and down his shaft in gentle tugs.

He lost two health points.

It was another quirk of this strange game world.  In the back of his mind he could see a full status screen representing him, complete with stats and current level.  It had appeared the moment he’d woken up in this universe.

The damage was okay.  Battlefuck rules were the same as normal RPG combat, but with all the normal attacks replaced with sex acts.  Losing two HP was nothing.  He had plenty left.

Now it was time for his ‘attack’.

He powered his hips forwards with his buttocks.  Corybosom sighed in pleasure as his cock sank deeper into her gelatinous form.

He lost two HP.

Huh, wait.  That couldn’t be right.

“How come I took damage?” he said.  “I thought this was a sex battle.  You know, both of us taking it in turns to make a sex attack.”

Corybosom looked up at him and smiled.  Mischief glimmered in her eyes.

“Oh yes, about that . . .”

The malleable jelly of her body rippled up his cock in a teasing suck that left his knees feeling like they’d been replaced by overcooked spaghetti.

“. . . we may have been a teensy bit remiss in not correcting a tiny little misunderstanding.”

“This isn’t a battlefuck dungeon?”

Freddy had that just-fallen-into-a-yawning-pit sensation he’d just made a massive booboo.


If the scenario sounds familiar, yes, this is the same universe as Jackson in HRPG-World.  This one's a little lighter and more fun than my usual stories.  If you like the dark stuff, don't worry, there are plenty of darker tales on the way in the next collection coming out in a couple of weeks.  (oh, so much darkness . . .)

I hope you all find "Sandwiched by Slimes" to be worth a dollar of your hard-earned money.  Please tell me what you think in the comments below.  Do you like Corybosom and Rubisia and would you like to see more of them?

Next up it's tentacle time as a lucky someone gets "Sandwiched by Scyllas".  I'll try to get it out before the end of the month this time!

Friday, January 16, 2015

New Erotic Horror Short - Sandwiched by Spiders

The new short is up.


You can get it for the cheap price of $0.99 from:
Amazon
Smashwords
Kobo (it's 99p rather than $0.99 as that's the lowest price they'd allow me to set)

Smashwords will also distribute it to other eBook platforms.  If you can't find it on your eBook retailer of choice, let me know and I'll try and get it up there.

Also, as this is the first time I've done this solo rather than through my regular publisher, Excessica, if you notice any horrific formatting issues please let me know as soon as possible.  I tested the conversions out on each of the sites beforehand, but I've worked in IT long enough to know that's no guarantee some device somewhere won't chuck a fit trying to render the ebook code.

As for the story:


Sandwiched by is a new sexy series of monster girl erotic horror shorts from the master of dark erotica, M.E. Hydra.  The first, “Sandwiched by Spiders”, sees a man entangled in the wicked webs of two spider demonesses.

Jonathan Mustard doesn’t believe in karma.  As a successful IT contractor constantly on the move around the country he’s been able to maintain a double life as a killer of cats with no consequences.  This changes when he’s witnessed in the act by a strange young girl.  Now karma is stalking Jonathan through his dreams in the form of two gorgeous spider demonesses, L’hassia and L’katipia.  They intend to make him pay for his cruelty . . . in the sexiest way possible.

Sandwiched by.  One dude, two sexy babes.  A perfect fantasy . . . or maybe not . . .


And a little excerpt to whet the appetite:


“Shush,” she said.

Then she shushed him with her lips.  Moist and warm, they pressed against his as she lowered her head and kissed him.  Jonathan’s thoughts vanished in a haze.  For a moment he forgot what she was . . . forgot where he was.  He was conscious only of the movement of her lips, her tongue playfully jousting with his, the heat she transmitted to him.  Blood flowed to his loins in slow, pleasant throbs.

It was a dream.  For a moment it had veered into a nightmare so vivid it had tricked him into thinking it was reality.  Now it was dream again.  Maybe even a wet dream.  It had been a while.

She continued the kiss and Jonathan felt so giddy and light it was as if he’d detached from the floor and was floating up to the ceiling.  He span slowly, as though he was a child’s mobile dipped in honey.  He felt like he was being wrapped up nice and snug as well.  Snug and comfortable like someone was rolling a warm duvet around him on a cold winter night.

Why did this duvet feel so sticky?

The pleasant haze lifted.  Jonathan opened his eyes and saw the red-haired spider-girl was wrapping him up in silk like a spider cocooning its catch.  A single thread of silk spooled from the orifice at the tip of her abdomen.  She turned him in place with her eight legs and wound the thread around his body.  His legs were already bound together and now his arms were bound to his sides.  He couldn’t move.  Worse, wherever the silk came into contact with his naked flesh he felt an enervating sensation that left him feeling floppy and unnaturally relaxed.

“Stop it!” he cried.  “Don’t eat me!”

The red-haired spider-girl paused.  She pouted luscious red lips and blew him a kiss.  Then she continued winding silken threads around his body until he was completely cocooned from chin to toes.  Once she’d finished she suspended him like a hunk of meat in a larder.

The two spider-girls, balanced on silvery threads, stood before him.  Their eyes—all of them—were bright.

“Hello, I’m L’hassia,” the red-haired spider-girl said.

“I’m L’katipia,” the other girl said.

Their faces moved across Jonathan’s field of vision as the thread supporting him slowly twisted back and forth.

“What do you want with me?” he asked.

“We’re arachnes,” L’hassia said.

“Supernatural sex assassins,” L’katipia elaborated.

Jonathan realised they hadn’t bound all of him up.  They’d left a gap that exposed his groin and buttocks.  L’hassia reached in to fondle his balls and stroke a hand up and down his shaft.

“We’re going to do naughty naughty things to you,” L’hassia purred.

“Now pick which one of us you’d like to stick your prick in,” L’katipia said huskily.


It is a short, about 5,500 words.  The Sandwiched by series is an experiment in putting out work more regularly and at a cheaper price.  I hope you enjoy the first installment.  The second, "Sandwiched by Slime Girls", will follow in February.

Thursday, October 02, 2014

New story for Halloween – What Kevin Did Last Summer

It’s that time of the year where I go shamelessly vote-whoring.

Literotica’s 2014 Halloween story competition has started and I have a runner.

Actually, it was supposed to be my entrant for the Summer contest, but the succubus ended up having far too much fun and the story grew too long for me to finish in time for the deadline.  Like pretty much every story I’ve written, it also fits the Halloween theme.  So I entered it into that competition rather than wait until next year.

Hope you enjoy it.  It’s a hot one:
What Kevin Did Last Summer

I talked about how voting works in the Literotica contests back here.  In short, anything other than a 5 is worse than no vote at all.  Literotica is also fairly sharp at spotting shenanigans.  Bashing competitors and multi-voting on a favoured story doesn’t achieve anything as they have a good filtering system for removing dodgy votes.  It’s why I like Lit’s contests.  I play fair (I don’t even vote on my own entrants) and can still place.

I don’t know how this one will do.  “Streetwalking with a Succubus” placed in the money last year.  This features a similar character to Nicole and is nicer than my usual ambush-the-unsuspecting-paranormal-romance-fans-with-horror-and-vore entrants.  The sex is hot, but the story might not have as strong an aww factor as my previous winners.  We’ll see.  A lot will depend on the quality of the other entrants (no full-length novels this time, please!).

Speaking of Nicole.  While I was writing “What Kevin Did Last Summer” I had an idea for a story—possibly even novella or novel length—featuring both Nicole and Madam Voluptula together.  How does that sound?  Would you like to read about Nicole and Madam Voluptula double-teaming some poor (lucky!) unsuspecting dude?

Monday, March 03, 2014

New Story - "A Real-Life Goo Girl"

As mentioned earlier, here's "A Real-Life Goo Girl".  Originally I was intending to synch this to come out at the same time as the version on Literotica, but they were a bit quicker at posting than usual and it came out yesterday instead.  This was useful as one of the comments made me realise the ending needed a tweak.

Here's one for the slime girl fans anyway:

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A Real-Life Goo Girl

“I’m telling you, it’s a real fetish,” John Sanjust said.

John and Mario Vailati stood on a metal gantry overlooking a large, circular glass tank.

“Nah, you’re yanking my chain,” Vailati said.

“Rule 34.  If it exists, there is porn of it somewhere on the internet.”

“Yeah, but—”

“Google it,” John said.  “You’ll find tons of pictures.”

“I don’t get it.  What’s the appeal in having sex with what’s basically a giant amoeba?”

Below them, Subject HA-001 moved around the inside of the tank in a series of undulating waves.

John shrugged.  “Beats me.  It’s out there though.”

“I mean, think about it,” Vailati said.  “It would probably feel like shoving your cock into a beaker of cold snot.  How is that sexy?”

“I bet there are websites for that as well,” John said.

Subject HA-001’s upper body pressed up against the lid of the tank.  Twin bulges of what were perfect facsimiles of human breasts, right down to the perky nipples, squashed up against the glass.  She stared up at them and kissed the glass with full, bee-stung lips.

John would have thought the mimicry incredible . . . if there was any subject being copied.  Subject HA-001 had taken on the body shape of a typical male fantasy—tall and busty, ridiculously well-stacked, like a Pamela Anderson or Kim Kardashian—and no-one knew how or why.  Well, the top half of her was a male fantasy.  The bottom half swelled out into a soft, undifferentiated blob of protoplasm.  She was a human-sized amoeba with transparent light-blue skin.  John didn’t need to possess a PhD to know she—it—shouldn’t exist.

“Don’t tell me you wouldn’t mind shoving your dick up between those puppies,” he said.

“Language!” Danielle Sullivan shouted up from the monitors below.  “This is a place of serious work.  I will not have potty mouths in my laboratory.”

“Sorry, Mom,” John said.

It was a team joke.  Danielle Sullivan was middle-aged and chunky.  Blonde curls framed a round, homely face.  She was from the American Midwest and about as conservative as they came.  Until he’d met her, John hadn’t thought people like Sullivan existed outside of lazy parodies of American culture.  He’d even made an ill-advised quip about it not long after they’d been introduced.

“I didn’t think it possible for biologists to come out of your neck of the woods.  I thought they were still having problems accepting the Theory of Evolution,” he’d joked, poorly.

“We’re not all gun-toting crazy whahoos,” she’d said.  “And where’s your top hat and tails—left them back in London did you.”

Touché.

Sullivan might have sounded like she was more at home baking apple pies, but she was a fastidious and highly efficient researcher, if a little unimaginative.  That was both the positive and negative of her military background.  John suspected that was why he’d been brought in.  It was easy to joke about that classic oxymoron, American Intelligence, but they knew enough to seek out someone who could think outside of the box.

Unfortunately, this little problem required being able to think a little further than outside of the box.  A lot further . . .

* * * *

The lab went into lockdown at 9:45pm on a Tuesday evening.  John was working late and the only person in the lab.  He was studying images from the electron microscope when a warning flashed up on his monitor screen informing him of a containment breach and that the lab was entering lockdown mode.

If this was a film or videogame there would have been flashing lights and wailing sirens.  That was because films and videogames were designed to generate excitement.  In a dangerous lab environment excitement was a bad thing.  Personnel needed to think clearly and fast, and flashing lights and blaring alarms were not conducive to clear and rational thought.  No doubt an alarm was going off somewhere and highly trained personnel were springing into action, but John, despite being in the lab, was superfluous now.  The breach had been detected and the doors would have been locked and sealed the moment it was detected.

John sat in eerie silence and looked at the polite warning message flashing on his computer screen.  He wondered if they’d let him compose a final email to his mother back in London.

* * * *

John had been in Miami for a conference on protists when the US military had made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.  It was his first paper since receiving his PhD and he wasn’t sure what interest the US military had in “Cytoskeletal Features that aid Oxygen Diffusion in Large Protists”.  Some amoeba, like the infamous brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, were hazardous to human health, but John’s area of expertise was the giant amoeba, Chaos carolinensis, and they were harmless . . . unless you happened to be a diatom or similarly microscopic organism.

He’d assumed there’d been a mistake and told them so.

“You are an expert in gaseous absorption and transfer in single-celled organisms?” Vailati had asked him.  This was before John knew who Dr Mario Vailati was.  Back then he’d been another nondescript man with thinning grey hair and a lab coat.

“Well, yes”

He had been studying it for the past three and a half years.

Then you’re exactly the person we want.

“Why not Professor Robert Feldherr?  He’s the expert in this field and he lives in this state.”

“Professor Feldherr doesn’t have the requisite personality traits for this project.”

That was from the military type in the smart uniform who looked as stiff as a shop mannequin.  Translated from military-speak what he really meant was:  Professor Feldherr is old, knows his own mind, and is far less likely to follow orders without question than a fresh-faced young limey.  That was John Sanjust.  They wanted him for his expertise, but also because they knew he’d be easier to control than an irascible old professor.

* * * *

John hoped it was a false alarm.  He would have prayed as well, but he was an atheist and couldn’t see the point.

He knew there were two critical fail-safes.  The first pumped super-cooled gas into the room, dropping the temperature down to around -190 °C in a few seconds and turning the whole lab into a giant ice box.  That was if they wanted to preserve and retrieve any of the samples.

If they weren’t interested in retaining anything, or were really scared of further breaches, the second system was set up to incinerate the contents of the lab.

He’d thought it sounded excessive when they’d described the system to him.  This was before he’d seen Subject HA-001 . . .

* * * *

“What kind of experiment is this?”  John’s voice had been full of awe, and fear.

Part of Subject HA-001 clearly resembled a young woman.  Blue, transparent, but unmistakably a young woman.  Initially he’d wondered if a horrific accident had taken place, or—worse—equally horrific human experimentation.

He wasn’t on the right planet.

“That information is classified,” the young soldier escorting them said.

“She’s from another world,” Vailati said.

The younger soldier looked at Vailati and was about to say something.

“Oh shut it,” Vailati said.  “Dr Sanjust is here to carry out research on our behalf.  He can’t do that effectively if he isn’t aware of all the facts.”

Chastened, the young soldier stepped back out of the conversation.

“From another dimension, to be more specific,” Vailati continued.  “I’m sure you’ve already noticed the excessive security at this facility.  You’ll be happy to know it’s not because we’re manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”

“That’s a relief,” Vailati said.

“Our physicists found a way to punch a hole between dimensions.  On the other side of the complex is a stable gateway to another world.  We’ve been sending people through for the past few months.  They’ve even established bases on the other side.”

John’s jaw dropped open.

“This is a little unexpected,” he said.  “I guess that means we’ve just gone past the opportunity for me to turn this job down.”

“Sorry, kiddo.  Once you’re in, you’re in.  None of the people we asked ever wanted out at this point anyway,” Vailati said with a twinkle in his eye.

“Who would,” John said.  “What scientist would turn down an opportunity like this?  Have you been through?” he asked.

Vailati shook his head.

“I was scheduled to, and then something happened.  We found life.”

* * * *

John stared at the computer monitor.  His hands trembled and his palms felt moist.

Cut it out, he thought.  They were not going to freeze him into an icicle—or nuke him into a pile of ashes—unless they were absolutely sure there had been a hazardous containment breach.  And then only as an absolute last resort.

He checked the internal messaging system.  He messaged the first name on duty.  They didn’t get back to him and neither did the next five names he tried.

Presumably that was protocol.  Don’t speak to the poor sucker you might have to incinerate.

Stop it!  It was probably a false alarm.  No one was replying because they were too busy running diagnostic checks and hunting for whatever software glitch had flipped the alarm.

John left messages asking for clarification.  Then he tapped an icon and brought up the feed from the internal lab cams.  He knew CCTV covered the whole of the interior of the lab.  One lunch break he and Vailati had laughed while watching the prim and proper Sullivan pick her nose when she thought no one was watching.  Sometimes the littlest of things pleased the biggest of minds.  John cycled through the images until he found a camera with a view of the tank.

Fuck.

John’s blood turned to icy slush.  It wasn’t a software glitch.  The circular tank with walls of reinforced glass was empty.

Subject HA-001 was out.

* * * *

Gaseous exchange, John had pedantically told his fellow students during a Student Union screening of The Blob.  That was the reason why The Blob, Caltiki or any other B-movie blob monster couldn’t possibly exist.  Single-celled amoebae never grew larger than a few microns for a good reason.  Any bigger and oxygen wouldn’t be able to penetrate the tissues fast enough to keep the organism alive.  This was why complex organisms had complex circulatory systems.

It was also why human beings tended to die when they were shot full of holes and all the red stuff leaked out.

“I know, it shouldn’t be alive,” Vailati said as they’d studied Subject HA-001 for the first time.  “From what I’ve heard there are quite a few shouldn’t be’s over in H-space.  The physicists postulated the laws of physics work slightly differently on the other side of the gate.  None of our electronics function properly when we take them through.

“But wouldn’t the same apply for alien life forms brought back into our world?” John said.

“That’s one theory.  Professor Michel and Doctor Pendleton were firmly opposed to bringing Subject HA-001 back.  They thought it would disintegrate into a puddle of goo the moment it entered our universe.  As you can see, they were wrong.”

John could see.  Subject HA-001 stood—if such a word could be used—up against the reinforced wall of the tank.  Her palms and large round breasts were pressed up against the glass.

* * * *

John accessed the environmental controls from his computer.  He couldn’t override lockdown and wouldn’t if he could.

That surprised him.  He’d thought of himself and Vailati as a pair of lovable goofballs in a world full of straight-arrow stiffs.  He hadn’t really thought of himself as a sacrifice-for-the-greater-good sort of bloke.  Sullivan, yes, he could see it.  She’d happily pour petrol over herself and light a match while singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” if she thought it would aid her country.

This wasn’t even his country.

It didn’t matter.  They couldn’t risk HA-001 escaping.  He knew all about invasive species.  If it got out, made it down into the sewers and started to reproduce they might never be able to eradicate it.  He wasn’t exactly relishing the prospect of being flash-frozen into an ice cube—or incinerated—but he saw the logic of it.  One life versus the lives of many was a simple equation.  He’d make the same call if it was him outside.

It didn’t have to come to that anyway.  Not if he could take control of the situation in here first.

He accessed the environmental controls and turned the lights down as low as they would go while still providing him enough illumination to see by.  Subject HA-001 was mildly phosphorescent.  It glowed blue in the dark.  Turning the lights down would give him the best chance of spotting it before . . .

* * * *

No one knew what Subject HA-001 had done to PFC Trey Sandoval in the fifteen minutes or so between her surprising and overwhelming him, and her eventual capture at the hands of PFC Sandoval’s squad.  The eyewitness reports were conflicting and confused.  One had sworn Subject HA-001 was trying to eat PFC Sandoval.  Another was convinced she was trying to mate with him.  The facts shorn of conjecture were this:  They’d found Sandoval naked and lying on his back with his body partially engulfed by Subject HA-001.  Thinking there still might be a chance to save him his squad-mates had resisted the trigger impulse to start blasting away.  Instead, one of them, CPL Rutan, had taken careful aim and put a bullet through what they thought was Subject HA-001’s head.  The bullet passed straight through and didn’t do anything other than attract Subject HA-001’s attention.

“She turned and gave me a look like the one my ex-wife used to give me every night I came back home late and drunk,” Rutan told them.

It had been SFC Cederlund’s idea to use a fire extinguisher.

“Worked in The Blob,” he’d told them afterwards.

It worked here as well.  Subject HA-001 did not like cold.  It caused her to contract, slow down, and finally become dormant.

At first they’d thought they’d saved PFC Sandoval.  Outwardly his tissues and exposed skin showed no signs of damage from being surrounded by Subject HA-001.  They’d even joked about PFC Sandoval’s large and noticeable erection.

This was before the other reports of aggressive sexual behaviour from H-space life forms had started to come in.

Apparently it took two hours for Sandoval’s erection to subside.  Most of the ribald jokes had faded away by then.  Sandoval was still out cold and nothing anyone did was able to revive him.  He was alive and breathing, but appeared to be in some kind of coma.  The doctors didn’t know how to wake him because they couldn’t understand how HA-001 had induced the coma in the first place.  They’d scanned Sandoval’s brain back on Earth and it looked perfectly healthy.  Sandoval should have woken with no ill-effects at all.  That was a few weeks ago.  As far as John was aware, PFC Sandoval was still in the same coma somewhere on the base.

* * * *

John stared at the screen.  No reply back from anyone in Security.  That was a bad sign.  Maybe the decision to flip the switch had already been made and they didn’t want the psychological awkwardness of speaking to the condemned man.

He cycled through the internal cameras.  No sign of Subject HA-001.  The tank was still empty and the moment Security saw that they would have confirmation the alarms going off wasn’t a glitch.

He had to act first.

John picked up a fire extinguisher and moved cautiously through the lab.  The room was completely silent.  Red warning messages blinked on monitor screens.  He reached the big glass tank at the centre of the lab.  He saw no sign of blue phosphorescence.  So much for hoping Subject HA-001 had left behind a slime trail.

He advanced to the back of the lab with the fire extinguisher held out before him like a gun.

They didn’t know how smart Subject HA-001 was.  John hoped he was wrong, but he suspected the reason they didn’t know how smart HA-001 was because HA-001 didn’t want them to know how smart HA-001 was.  This was not a thought that comforted him as he picked his way between the workbenches.  Neither was the knowledge he was a single button press away from instantaneous obliteration.

He felt something splatter on his right hand.

* * * *

They’d brought in John because they thought HA-001 was a giant amoeba with an uncanny ability to mimic the human form, and he was the amoeba guy.

HA-001 wasn’t an amoeba.  John and Vailati didn’t know what she was.  The samples they took from Subject HA-001’s body didn’t help either.  They didn’t seem to know what they were either.  Sometimes John saw highly complex protein structures he’d never seen before, sometimes he saw strange inorganic compounds, and other times it was just water.

John and Vailati weren’t even sure if HA-001 was alive, at least in the conventional sense.

He couldn’t remember how the incident with his semen in a Petri dish had come about.  It had probably been a stupid bet or dare with Vailati.  That was how most of these things started.

Vailati had a theory that HA-001’s protean nature indicated she had an unstable genome and needed a constant supply of genetic material in order to replenish herself.  As theories went it was wild and woolly, but given they’d spent a solid week in the lab and determined nothing, it was about as good as any other conjecture.

John had gone into one of the cupboards and jacked off onto a Petri dish.  They’d placed the Petri dish in the tank and had briefly been excited when HA-001 had sucked it up with a pseudopod.  Then they’d felt a little foolish as they realised it didn’t prove anything.  She’d have probably done the same with a saucer of milk.

Sullivan had been livid.  She thought it was immature hi-jinks and had no place in a serious lab.  She’d been even less happy about Vailati’s next proposal.

God knows where Vailati had found his volunteer.  John knew the killbot factory training must be hardcore, but this was devotion bordering on the insane.  There was no way John would put his naked dick anywhere near HA-001.  Somehow Vailati had managed to find a man blindly obedient enough to be willing to do that.

At least Vailati gave some thought to the man’s safety.  They partitioned the tank with the volunteer, PV2 Vinnie George, on one side and Subject HA-001 on the other.  The only way for her to reach George was by extruding a pseudopod through a small hole in the partition wall.  Suspended above that aperture—guillotine-like—was a sharp blade.  If they started to lose control of the experiment they would bring the blade down, slicing off HA-001’s appendage.  Based on previous experiments, any part of HA-001 separated from the main body quickly liquefied.

Privately John still thought PV2 Vinnie George was less brave than stark-raving bonkers.

HA-001 went straight for the naked man’s cock.  She sent a feeler through the aperture and it wrapped around and then enveloped the volunteer soldier’s penis.

“If you feel numbness, a burning sensation or any other kind of discomfort let us know immediately and we’ll terminate the experiment.”

“It feels okay,” George said, looking down at his engulfed member with a degree of stoicism that amazed John.  “Kind of nice actually, like she’s—Oh!—”  His mouth dropped open in surprise.  “—trying to tug me off.”

John saw it as well.  Through the transparent blue skin of HA-001’s pseudopod he saw George’s foreskin move back and forth.  HA-001’s appendage bunched up as it manipulated George’s cock.  She was clearly masturbating him.

He also noted—with some envy—that George was hung like the proverbial horse.

“Oh that feels really good.”  George turned to Vailati with a broad grin.  “Is she supposed to be jerking me off?”

“If you feel uncomfortable we can terminate the experiment at any time,” Vailati said.

“No no.  It’s fine,” George said.  “More than fine.”

HA-001 extruded more protoplasm through the aperture and her pseudopod formed a thick, pulsing cuff around George’s erection.  John watched the man’s foreskin move back and forth as HA-001 continued to wank the naked soldier.  George closed his eyes and started to moan in pleasure.

This was the moment when Sullivan stormed off in a huff.

“Probably more sexual arousal than she gets to see in a year,” John joked with Vailati.

“Uh, I think I’m going to . . .”  George didn’t get a chance to finish.  His body shuddered and he spurted thick ropes of white semen into HA-001’s slime sheath.  She sucked it down, using her pseudopod as if it was a pipe.  HA-001 sent more of her body through the aperture, thickening the tentacle connecting her to George’s crotch.

John watched as structures formed within her pseudopod.  He frowned.  This was something they hadn’t seen before.  HA-001’s body was best described as a bag of transparent blue fluid moulded into the shape of a woman.  They hadn’t seen any evidence of organelles at either the macro or micro level.  They hadn’t even found anything resembling a nucleus.

John watched as colourless rings formed within the clear blue slime.  They were plump like transparent doughnuts and slowly pulsed.  They settled around George’s cock like a hoops on a post.  The volunteer gave a loud gasp.  He was hung like a horse, but still, there was no way the explosion of white cum that erupted from the end of his cock could be natural.  George shuddered and shivered on the spot.  His hips swung loosely back and forth as a river of milky-white cum flowed down the transparent tentacle to HA-001.  There was no way a person could produce that much cum, even if they’d been gifted the sex organs of a satyr.

“Shut it,” John said.

Vailati agreed with him.  He closed the aperture, slicing off HA-001’s appendage.  Separated from the main mass, the pseudopod liquefied and splashed onto the floor of the tank.  HA-001 gave a silent sigh of disappointment.

“Whoa, dear fucking Jesus,” George said.  He looked about as steady on his feet as a newborn deer.  This was a six-foot-plus ogre of a man with a barrel for a chest.

“What did it feel like?” Vailati asked.

“Fucking awesome, doc, if you’ll excuse the language,” George said, a shit-eating grin on his face.  “Like the best fucking blowjob ever.”

They did some tests on George afterwards.  There seemed to be no ill effects apart from some strange, purely cosmetic, markings on the man’s penis.  John had wondered if those transparent doughnut organelles had been in the process of bonding with the man in some way, a process that had been interrupted when they’d terminated the experiment.

“You need me again?” George asked, hopeful, as he’d left the lab area.  “I’ll do it again, no problem.  Hell, once word gets around you’ll have a big line of grunts outside the door wanting to volunteer.”

That was yesterday.

* * * *

John felt something splatter on his right hand.  Like water dripping from the ceiling . . . only he knew it wasn’t water.

He knew how this went.  He’d seen it before in countless horror films.  He’d look up and there would be the blob, clinging to the ceiling above him.  He’d open his mouth to scream, but it would be too late as the blob flopped down on top of him.

John was smarter than that.

He was already diving to his right as a wet mass detached from the ceiling and landed with a splat right where he’d been standing mere moments before.

Unfortunately John was a lab rat who’d never had much time for the exercise field.  He was no action-movie gymnast.  Action-movie gymnasts also had the advantage of multiple takes.  They didn’t have to use the one where they collided with a lab bench, jarred their knee and dropped the one weapon that could save them.

He wasn’t sure it would have done him much good in any case.  HA-001 was fast.  She sprang back from her fall and was already gushing towards him.  His body was lifted up as a surge of protoplasm flowed under him.  The soft substance, more solid than the liquid it resembled, bulged up and formed a natural pillow for his head.  It happened so fast he didn’t realise he was caught until she was dragging him back to the jiggling main mass of her body.

And he was caught.  Just like an insect stuck in amber before it set.  He moved his arms and legs back and forth to no discernible effect, like an ungainly frog trying to swim in thick jelly.  HA-001 reared up above him and then flopped down on top of him.  His sodden clothes were torn off him like wet tissue paper.  Breasts like quivering bowls of jelly rested on his chest as she looked down at him and smiled.

“I’ve been looking forward to this moment ever since you gave me a taste of your seed.”

Her speaking didn’t come as much of a surprise to John.  He’d suspected for a while she was intelligent enough to hide that intelligence from them.  It also gave him a sliver of hope—unlike a mindless amoeboid, she could be reasoned with.

“The whole lab is being monitored,” he said.  “If you don’t stop this and go back to your tank they’ll torch the both of us.”

HA-001 shook her head.

“No they won’t,” she said.  “I’m too valuable a specimen.”

“Doesn’t matter,” John said.  “They won’t risk you escaping.  They’ll incinerate everything in here.”

“Who said anything about escaping,” HA-001 said, pursing her lips in an insouciant pout.  “After I’ve had my fun with you I’m going to go back to my little tank and continue to play the good little test subject . . . until the time is right.”

Smart enough to reason with, but also smart enough to think several moves ahead.

“What do you mean by fun?” he asked.

HA-001 traced a little circle around his exposed nipple with a molten finger, leaving behind a glistening blue trail that glowed in the gloom.

“Fun,” she said.  Her lips plumped up in a suggestive pout.  “And I know you want to have fun with me as well.  I’ve seen the way you look at me, the way those naughty eyes of yours get stuck on my gooey breasts.”

She sat up until it looked like she was straddling him, but instead of legs her upper body flowed down into an undifferentiated pile of glowing blue jelly.  She cupped hands under her enormous boobs like a greengrocer weighing melons.

“Come, touch them.  I know you’ve wanted to put your hands on them for a while.”

She plucked his hands out of her sticky mass.  John felt curiously non-resistive, as if her glowing body emitted a radiation that sapped away all his energy.  He didn’t struggle as she took his hands and pressed them palm-flat against the swell of her breasts.

This was a little weird and not all that unpleasant.  In truth he had wondered what it would feel like and wasn’t disappointed as he felt the pressure of her soft boobs against his hand.  It reminded him of a conference in Montreal.  His colleagues had dragged him off to a strip club afterwards and a statuesque brunette had taken him up to a little cubicle and forced him to put his hands on boobs as big as milk jugs.  HA-001 had even larger breasts and there was something about her skin—smooth, soft, warm—that made his own skin crave contact.

John didn’t even mind as his fingers started to sink beneath the surface.  It meant more surface area could come into contact with her.  His hands sank into the transparent bulge of her breasts until they were embedded up to his wrists.  Now her warmth was all around his fingers.  He felt quiet pulses run through her gelatinous body, a gentle beat he longed to share.

HA-001 flowed over and around him in delicious little ripples.  She straddled him and he was partially engulfed by her gelatinous form.  Rather than being a source of terror John found it surprisingly erotic.  His cock swelled up in an impressive erection, helped along by HA-001.  Her hand felt like it was dripping with warm lubricant as it stroked up and down John’s hard-on.

“I knew you were up for some fun,” she said with a suggestive smile.

John wondered if Security was watching the camera feeds and what they’d make of this.  It must look like they were shagging.  Of course it would look like they were shagging.  She was astride him and he had his hands on—okay, in—her tits.  What else would it look like?

Were they fucking?

HA-001 settled in his lap and John’s cock was enveloped by the moist protoplasm of her body.  Oh wow.  It felt like oil-covered hands with countless fingers slithering up and down his shaft.  Or countless warm mouths filled with a multitude of tickling tongues.  HA-001 moved up and down on top of him and her motions sent waves undulating through the bed of jelly she’d piled up under John’s naked body.  He floated within her and felt like he was drowning in sensual sensation.

Yeah, definitely fucking.

For science, he told himself.  Not that pleasure like this needed any excuses.

“I don’t understand,” he said as she rocked and rolled on top of him.  “You’re a different species, from a different dimension.  This can’t be for procreation.”

“This isn’t for procreation,” HA-001 said.  She threw back her head and sighed as she pressed gelatinous hips down on John’s lap.  “This is how I feed.”

Okay, so that wasn’t the most romantic of answers, but it did give validity to one of Vailati’s theories.

“The semen?” he said.

They thought HA-001’s genome was unstable and as a result she sought fresh DNA to maintain her own.  Semen was packed with sperm and sperm were a delivery mechanism to pass on an organism’s DNA.  Semen must be like high-grade oil to her and as a result her species must have evolved to be adept at harvesting semen from other organisms.

Or something like that.  It was probably a bollocks theory, but H-space was not exactly conducive to sensible scientific theory.  The physicists had it even worse.

Fuck it, who cared when it felt like a hundred willing harlots were all kissing his naked flesh at the same time.

HA-001 rose up and down on top of him and her gelid breasts wobbled around his engulfed hands.  Her skin was translucent and John could see his erection sticking up inside her.  It was weird seeing it engulfed within her protoplasm.  It would have been frightening had it not felt so good.  The only melting sensation he felt was the relaxation of really satisfying sex.

Structures started to form within her protoplasm.  He’d seen this before in the experiment with PV2 Vinnie George, where she’d produced some kind of intracellular organelles, but at the macro level.

A sliver of concern flittered into John’s thoughts and roosted.  No one had been able to rouse PFC Sandoval from the coma his body had fallen into after his encounter with HA-001.

“Listen,” John said.  “I don’t mind you sucking up some of my semen, but you need to be careful.  The first man you fed off is still in a coma.  Something in your biochemistry might have an adverse effect on our physiology.”

HA-001 continued to rise up and down with languid bobs.  Her motions caused John to rock and sway within her gelatinous body.

“He didn’t complain,” HA-001 said, “and neither will you.”

Like before, the organelles resembled transparent puffy doughnuts.  John’s protests were forestalled as one of them settled over his cock.  His mouth dropped open and he quivered uncontrollably in pleasure as the ring stretched to accommodate his glans and then rolled down his twitching shaft.  It felt like his cock had just plunged up into a soft, tight orifice.  The ring settled down around his root and throbbed pleasurably.

“Wha—?”

John managed that far before a second translucent doughnut settled over his cock and rolled down the shaft.  Smiling, HA-001 slowly bobbed up and down on top of him.  She puffed another elastic ring around John’s throbbing hard-on while he squirmed and writhed in helpless pleasure.

They’d seen her do this to PV2 George.  No wonder he’d been so eager to volunteer again.

A fourth ring wrapped around his cock and little spurt of precum escaped his urethral opening.  HA-001 used her protoplasm to suck it off his glans with a contented sigh.

A fifth and sixth ring settled around John’s cock.  Only the tip was visible now—half of the mushroom head sticking up out of the top ring.  The soft doughnuts contracted and squeezed his whole cock as she masturbated him with a precision that shouldn’t be possible for two species that had never encountered each other throughout their entire evolutionary history.

John really wanted to come.  This was too much.  He writhed and rocked on her cushion of protoplasm and desperately wanted to jet great torrents of spunk into her molten centre.  But he couldn’t come.  He didn’t understand it.  At this point George had been pissing streams of white stuff into her protoplasm.  John felt stuck.  Was it those weird doughnut organelles?  They contracted in rhythmic undulations around his cock, pumping him like an expert hooker wanking him off.

And still he couldn’t come.  Like there was a blockage in there.

HA-001 rubbed his naked sides with her hands.  The moist protoplasm of her body followed her motions and slid against his skin in a sensual massage.

“Your sex organs are mine now,” HA-001 said.

She sighed.  John’s cock was enveloped by a pleasant feeling of warmth.  It felt like the transparent doughnut structures were melting into him, or he melting into them—becoming one single organ.

“I’m bonded to you,” HA-001 said, giving out another little erotic gasp.  “Now I control how much pleasure you receive and when you can come.”

Too reinforce the point she gave her rings a little squeeze.  Pleasure throbbed through John’s body, but still he couldn’t find the release he craved.

Bonded?

They’d stopped the experiment with PV2 George at this point.  Afterwards they’d noticed some markings on the man’s penis, but they hadn’t looked serious and George hadn’t complained of any discomfort.

John’s body flexed and arched on the bouncy bed of protoplasm.  The structures within HA-001’s body stroked and squeezed, stimulating him to far past the point of climax while simultaneously denying him release.  His hands, still buried within her jelly breasts, clenched and he felt the warm protoplasm of her body squish between his fingers.

HA-001 pouted sexily down at him.  Another structure began to form within her body, about where the stomach would be on a human.  It started out as a silvery little bubble or vesicle, and then expanded until it was the size of a small melon.

They hadn’t seen this before.  An ominous feeling of fear punctured his pleasure.  He remembered the original victim, PFC Sandoval.  He was still in a hospital bed, little more than a vegetable.

“It’s not compatible with my biochemistry,” he said as the bubble drifted down towards his cock like a spherical jellyfish.  “You’re going to put me in a coma.”

HA-001 didn’t seem to care.  She swayed up and down on top of him.  The transparent rings squeezed and pumped his cock with increasing speed and force.  Still John couldn’t come.  It was like the bottom ring had pinched his urethra shut and nothing could get past.  The pressure in his balls grew and grew.

“I’ll scream and yell out if you don’t stop this,” John warned.  “They’ll incinerate the lab if they think there’s no chance of saving me.”

HA-001 said nothing, simply smiled.  Her gelatinous breasts pulled his hands in deeper.  The molten interior of her body slithered around his fingertips and triggered memories of hands sliding over breasts, of fingers passing over the aroused bumps of nipples, of palms against the smooth skin of a round ass, of digits exploring the moist folds of a lover’s sex.  The sensations sprang from his fingertips—memories of pleasures past and wishes of pleasures desired.

The other organelle, the transparent silvery bubble, settled around the head of his cock.

John didn’t scream or yell out.

The gossamer membrane enveloped his glans and a warm, shivery sensation of pleasure flowed into him.  He could see his foreskin through the semi-transparent rings.  It moved up and down with the motions of HA-001’s body.  HA-001 quickened her motions as John’s cock was drawn up into the silvery vesicle.  His glans became magnified—distorted—by the bubble’s surface.

It felt like John’s pleasures were magnified as well.  He wanted to come.  Needed to come.  His balls felt on the verge of bursting.  If only he could get past that . . .

And then the obstruction was gone.  John’s whole body sang with relief as his hips bucked and he ejaculated.  His milky-white semen puffed out in a dense white cloud within the silvery bubble.  It wasn’t enough for the slime girl.  The bubble expanded and throbbed like the bell of a jellyfish around the end of his cock.  The rings bounced up and down as if milking him.

“Now I feed,” HA-001 sighed, her eyes half-closed.

The stimulus was too much.  The ejaculation kept going.  John was helpless to resist as he poured semen into her.

Poured everything.

It was a torrent uprooting everything in its path, including John.  His mind felt like it had come adrift from his body.  It spun and swirled as if caught in a great whirlpool, turning round and round until John felt completely discombobulated.  For a moment he felt as though he existed in two places simultaneously.  There he was, lying on a bed of blue protoplasm and looking up at a girl made of the same substance straddling his body.  Within her body he saw an expanding silvery bubble and on its surface was a distorted, funhouse-mirror reflection of his face.  And there he was, floating in a giant bubble and looking down at a naked man lying in a mass of transparent blue jelly.  The man’s body trembled as if volcanic activity was rumbling away beneath the surface of its quivering form.

The disorientation passed and John realised with horror he’d been stranded in the wrong existence.  He was no longer looking up at the gelatinous body of the slime girl; he was staring out from a jelly prison at a naked body that slowly ceased movement.

His body.

He was staring at his naked body as it lay limply within her like a toy with all the batteries pulled out.

He understood then.  They were wrong.  It wasn’t the semen she sought but what could be loosened and sucked out with it.  He’d been wrong about a great many things.  They all had.

The bubble began to shrink around him.

* * * *

The experimental subject designated HA-001 sighed in satisfaction.  She oozed back to her tank and climbed back inside.

She was in no hurry to escape.  Not yet.  It wasn’t the right time.

She settled inside, closed her eyes and rested in blissful torpor as she digested the soul inside her.

No, she would be patient.  They’d let her know when the moment was right.  And then she would feast.

She did wonder why the other human had left her tank open though.

* * * *

Danielle Sullivan presented the agent with a flash drive containing the camera footage from the lab between 21:30 and 23:00.  The man plugged it into his computer and checked the footage.  He nodded.

“He’s in a vegetative state, just like the other one,” Sullivan said.

The agent nodded.  “We thought that might happen.”

“It’s unfortunate,” Sullivan said.  “But better him than an American citizen.”

The man nodded.  He fast forwarded through the footage, checking everything was present.

“The film should be everything our scientists need,” Sullivan said.  “I’m assuming they’re going to study it in order to work out how we can best combat Subject HA-001 and others like it.”

The agent looked up at her.  “Oh no.  The commander has a huge goo girl fetish.  As soon as he found out about Subject HA-001 he demanded we make a tape of her in action.”

Sullivan’s mouth fell open.

The agent said nothing more as he finished checking the footage.  He unplugged the flash drive and walked away with it.  Sullivan watched him go.

He was yanking her chain with a silly joke, same as those stupid boys.  That’s what it was.

Wasn’t it?

THE END

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