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Passion’s Niche

Frank Bob Kull
 1991
Montreal, Canada

 

As I watched the train pull into the station amidst the clanging of bells and shouting of porters, I was looking forward to meeting Emily.  I had never seen her, but I knew how she would look.

I’d first met her through a letter she had written to her brother, Jake.  I’d been living down here on the Island for three years and my terror of Voodoo had kept me away from the local flesh peddlers.  (It didn’t matter much as it turned out, not getting laid for so long had nearly turned me into a zombie anyway.)  Jake had known all that, but still he showed me her letter and said she’d be coming down for a visit some time and that we’d probably like each other.  It seemed a little odd.  I know I wouldn’t want anyone in my condition getting near my sister.

Ah, her letters.  Now, as I waited to finally meet her, gentle memories of them nudged their way into my mind and nestled there between the clanging and shouting of bells and porters.  There had been the sweet sisterly letters to Jake at first, and later the not so sisterly letters, written privately for my eyes only.  Those letters were ripe with a lust and a longing strong enough to match my own.  Lust so powerful that just the thought of it caused the crotch of my trousers to bulge and the train to whistle in apparent admiration.

Hot and sweaty, waiting in the fetid air, I felt fitted into place like a hip joint into its socket; loose, easy and ready for action.  Around me, the raucous swirl of people, the heavy stench of garbage, and the delicate scent of frangipani – dusting everything with its sweet odor – all matched and gave body to my private thoughts.

The train stopped.  Steam hissed out and broke my tension.  She was finally here.  I was sure I’d know her.  Even though she had refused to send me a photograph, in my mind I carried an image of her so real I could nearly taste it.  In the image she was perfect.  Now I began to doubt.  She couldn’t be so beautiful.

Then the train opened its doors and dumped her out.  Smiling, she looked around at the milling crowd and then, sodden with sweat, slumped down onto a nearby bench.  It collapsed with a splintering of half-rotten wood.  Completely at ease, she lounged there in the wreckage as though she’d been waiting all her life to be just ‘There’!  I had been edging my way toward her through the chaos, but now I stopped and clutched a post for support.  I ogled, I gaped.  She was just as I had hoped she’d be.  She was perfect:  all 284 pounds of her.  I felt joy well up in my heart.  I had thought that love would always pass me by, I knew now I had been wrong.  We were meant for each other like one bookend is meant for its mate.  I lumbered over to claim my own.

She looked up when she felt my sweat drip down onto her face.

“Wilber, my sweet.”

“Emily.”

“Come down here, Honey, and kiss me hello.”

I started to kick some rotten mango peels and a dead dog out of the way to clear a place to sit, but she stopped me saying, “Never mind, Wilber, that stuff just cushions the concrete.  Lounge on down here beside me.”

I settled down in contentment.  Finally I’d met an intelligent and sensitive lady who really knew how to relax into her surroundings.  And then the moment had arrived to welcome her into my life.  I kissed her.  Not just like that, of course.  It took some shifting of position before our mouths actually got close enough to share the sweet taste of what we’d had for lunch.  And then we lost control.  Passion had its way with us.  Our hands started to wander and explore mounds, mountains, nay worlds of flesh.

We must have presented an unusual sight even for the train station in Port au Rey.  After all, six hundred and fifty pounds of straining orgiastic flesh is not something you see every day…  A crowd gathered and began moaning and chanting in rhythm with our sharing.

Ummmum look at them white folks hunching down there on the floor!”

“Little Billy, you stay the hell out of the way, you hear?  You get caught in the middle of that mess you never get out alive.”

“Whoa, Wilber, that’s some force of nature you got yourself tangled up in.”

A few wild young studs, caught by the fever, tried to climb on too.  But the police, understanding the tenderness and delicacy of our first meeting, held them back.

Later, young boys brought chilled coconut milk to pour over our steaming bodies, and then my own sweet sweat-hog and I waddled off into the cooling night air.

 

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