Stag Beetle

 Sorry, my blog refuses to accept the Charity Sunday Photo. Computer getting old. So am I.

My chosen charity is:

Environment America, Inc. 

action@environmentamerica.org.

“We've all seen headlines about bees dying off in massive numbers and wild bee species facing extinction. Toxic neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, are incredibly deadly to bees, attacking their central nervous system, immune system, and eventually killing them. And while more and more people have become aware of the dangers of bee-killing pesticides and try to avoid them, the most common use of neonic pesticides is actually through seeds that are coated with these pesticides before they're even sold. Every year, 150 million acres are planted with neonic-coated seeds, from soybeans to corn to wheat.4

That's why new legislation, adopted first in New York and now in Vermont, is so groundbreaking. It not only restricts the application of bee-killing pesticides but also seeds pretreated with neonics.

And just one neonic-coated seed can contain enough bee-killing pesticide to kill 80,000 bees or more.

Environment America and our nationwide network of affiliated organizations is working hard to keep the momentum going in other states and urging retailers like The Home Depot and Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.

Bee-killing pesticides are pushing many wild bee species to the brink of extinction. A quarter of known bee species haven't been seen in the wild since the 1990s.”

The story I’m adding is not about bees, or any pollinators, as far as I know, even though my mind is very much on those with my garden. Stag Beetle is just an insect that intrigued me several years ago. Fair warning: a reviewer once said that the story is engrossing, but almost impossible not to shrink away from, until it gets along on to a quite happy end. (Well, she said something along those lines. It was a very long time ago. And as I re-read it now, it’s really pretty mild.)  Anyway, feel free to shrink away.

So here goes. As usual, I’ll contribute $1 to this cause for every hit of this blog, and $2 for every comment.

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Stag Beetle

Sacchi Green

Kit touched the little box in my pocket and smiled like an urchin sure of a treat from an indulgent uncle. "Is that my present from Japan?"

I gripped her wrist. "Is that a hand in my pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"

Kit, brow puckered, tried to puzzle out my mood. "Well, of course I'm glad to see you!" She tried to wriggle her fingers against my thigh. My grip tightened.

What am I doing with a girl too young to get a Mae West reference, even by way of Jessica Rabbit? 

"I'm glad to see you, too, Kitten.” A warm, loving, beautiful girl. “I did bring you a present, but that isn't it. Careful now. Don’t let the lid come off." I drew her hand slowly out of my pocket. The white box emerged, still intact, the thick rubber band now perilously close to one end.

"What..." Kit jerked an inquisitive finger abruptly back as the cardboard lid twitched from some inner movement. Her expressive eyes widened as the significance of the tiny ventilation holes sank in.

"Do you really want to see?" Kit had an involuntary horror of creepy crawly things. "My old students remembered that I'd been interested in their collections when I taught there, and thought it would make a fine present. I couldn't refuse. It was an honor."

Kit had met me at the door wearing only a silk shirt, open down the front; now she tucked her hands firmly under her armpits as she hugged herself for comfort. "I don't know...maybe..." She pulled herself together and let her arms drop to her sides, body taut, scared-kitten face firming until it could have been a smooth stone carving of Bastet. "If I don’t see it, I’ll imagine something worse." 

"That's my girl." Warm, loving, beautiful, and smart. And eager to please. I opened the box, my hand curved close just in case. The stag beetle, two inches of black shell and another inch of chitinous "antlers", peered over the edge. Kit inclined her head just enough to get a good view, the trembling of her body barely perceptible.  

"They're quite beautiful, in their way,” I said. “And harmless. I'll keep him in a bigger box, a very airy, safe box, and feed him fresh fruit--bananas, mangos, sweet peaches." Was it accidental that Kit's shirt slipped aside just enough to reveal the soft peachglow curve of her breast? A startling inner vision of the black beetle moving across that sweet tender flesh sent tremors over my body, too. "It's an ancient tradition for Japanese boys to collect and breed stag beetles as pets. They’re quiet, and don't take up much room." Am I babbling? Don't overdo it, nitwit! 

"It was an honor, wasn't it.” Her hand came out slowly.  “Only boys keep them? It must be their way of honoring you as Jess, instead of the Jessica they knew ten years ago." 

"Yes." A tangle of emotions gripped me. Pride in her bravery fought with a need to push her limits, to see how much she could bear—and how much I could bear before nothing mattered but fucking her so hard she screamed like a wildcat.

"I want to hold him," Kit said. "Really." She held steady, the faintest of shivers rippling across the tender skin of her arm, while the beetle took a few steps along the back of her hand and wrist. She was pale and somewhat breathless, still frightened on a level logic couldn't reach. “I’m not sure I can hold still. Scary things…sometimes they feel so…so…I don’t know. Maybe you could tie me up?”

“How did you guess the real present I brought?” I picked up my backpack and nudged her toward the bedroom. She lowered herself carefully until she sat on the bed, her back against the brass bars at its head, never looking away from the glossy black presence now innocently exploring her forearm--until she felt the wide silk obi wrap her tightly just below her breasts. 

“Oh! How beautiful!” The delicate bamboo leaves embroidered on a pale gold background distracted her for just a moment, until I raised her arm to her chest. Her gasp shook the insect just a bit, and then he kept on, up over the mound of her breast. She was visibly shuddering now, barely keeping her hand from scrabbling at the beetle.

“There’s a whole outfit in my suitcase to go with that, kimono and all,” I said conversationally, while I tied her wrists securely to the bars with the ends of the long sash. She gave a sigh of relief when the bonds held however hard she strained at them.

“Thank you so much!” It didn’t matter whether her gratitude was more for the gift, or the restraint. The relief vanished when the stag beetle crept along to her nipple and poised at its tip, feeling for a further foothold. “Jess…” Kit said tightly, then held her breath.    

I reached out to re-route him, but she shook her head. “It’s…okay. Okay and…and awful at the same time.” The beetle turned back, revealing the nipple darkened from pink to rose, and so temptingly erect that I could barely resist it. 

A lovely flush lit her skin. No longer just struggling to please me, she had crossed a line from fear to arousal, like pain giving way to pleasure. Heat surged through my own body.

By the time the beetle descended between her breasts and over her belly almost to her navel, she was whimpering, not so much like a frightened kitten as a very hungry one. Her thighs twitched, and her wrists strained at freedom, but she wouldn’t beg. 

I was the first to give way. “No more!” I retrieved my new pet, tucked him gently back into his box, and set it on the nightstand. Then it was my hands that made her skin flush and thighs dampen, and my not-so harmless mouth that forced her nipples to a rigid pleasure indistinguishable from pain, until her cunt and clit needed all my attention and I drove her on from mewling cries to howling release.

As we nestled close together afterward, catching our breaths, Kit reached up with her now-freed hands to stroke my face. “Isn’t it lucky,” she said, with a mischievous twist to her kiss-reddened lips, “that really, really scary things turn me on?”            

What am I doing with this warm, loving, beautiful, smart, brave girl? Getting luckier than I'll ever deserve, that's what.

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Flesh and Stone

 

This is my chosen charity:

TrustWomen.org

“Founded in 2009, our organization provides access to healthcare for those in need. Established first to provide abortion care, our services have expanded outside Kansas.

Our clinic in Oklahoma provides gender-affirming care and low-barrier medication-assisted treatment for opioid use. Both our locations in Kansas and Oklahoma provide sexual health services.”

I gave up trying to match a story to my chosen charity, but this organization is desperately in need, because so many women come to them from states around them that are forbidding abortion. I intend to contribute to them in any case, besides a dollar for every hit on my blog, and $2 for every comment.

So here goes my totally different story, just the middle third of it, but enough to be fun. “Flesh and Stone” was published originally in Thrones of Desire edited by Mitzi Szereto, quite a long time ago. If you want to read more, I noticed that there’s only one left of the book on Amazon, but I’m willing to send you my story by email. Just ask me.

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An excerpt from the middle of my story “Flesh and Stone” by Sacchi Green

"Come, mistress, I will unbind your stone gladiator, and then you must let me unbind you, and bathe you, and ease you."

"You must be as tired as I, Shebbah."

"Please, mistress, your ease will be my ease." This was truer than she knew. Longings suppressed by hard travel were rising in me.

I sensed tremors of longing in her, too, as I unwound Nyal's wrappings. The heat of her gaze brushed his cold form; I marveled that he did not melt under it.

She watched him broodingly while I filled the copper tub, sprinkled in herbs from my precious silk-wrapped store, inhaled, and felt that even stone might be stirred by such a mist.

"Come now, lady, let me slip off your tunic. And unbind your breasts...ah, mistress, how can you be cruel to such beautiful flesh?" I stroked, very lightly, the silky curves of breasts freed at last from confinement. Her nipples tautened. So did mine.

"Legend says that women warriors once severed them, the better to wield their weapons. At least I have stopped short of that." 

"I am very glad," I murmured, drawing her toward the bath. I would make her very glad, as well. 

Her body, golden in the firelight, was so beautiful I could scarcely breathe. A pulse emanated from the stone figure in the corner; he too was aware, and aroused. How long could he hold his rigid form? 

"What herbs are these?" She bent over the tub, breathing in the vapors. The lines of smoothly muscled legs flared into taut, rounded buttocks, firm as any other athlete's but just full enough to be unmistakably a woman's.

"A blend, my lady, with special soothing powers." I slipped out of my own clothes.

"Soothing?" She sounded doubtful, but stepped in, and sat with bent knees as I poured more water and watched it sheet over her strong shoulders and swirl around the curves of her lovely breasts. 

The herbs were, in fact, more stimulant than relaxant. I closed my eyes and struggled to focus on my art and my role. To give pleasure, to seek out my mistress's longings and fulfill them, to show her unimagined joys; to be slave to her desires, even those she scarcely knew herself.

"Let me massage your neck, Mistress, and your back, to rub away the tension." She leaned forward compliantly. Short bronze curls wrapped about my fingers as I kneaded the stress out of nape and scalp. My hands moved over shoulders and upper back, digging into the firm muscles there.

"Does that ease you, Mistress?" 

But I knew already. At last she had opened to the sensual link that was my greatest skill, and I felt with her the stirrings of her pleasure.

I reached farther down, my breasts pressed against her wet flesh, and she arched under the pressure of my hands on her lower back. Then gently, slowly, I stroked around her sides to her belly and below until my fingers tangled in dark-honey curls.

"Do you call this easing?" Her voice vibrated through her body into mine, but there was no anger in it.

"The wilder the journey, the greater the ease at its end," I murmured. "If I may show you the way, Mistress…" 

She tensed, then grasped my arm and drew me around to face her. "Do you think me so untouched, Shebbah?" 

I said nothing. After a moment she looked away. "I was as curious as any other, but the 'journey' was always brief and disappointing. I found better use for my body in feats of arms."

"Let me show you, Mistress, how much more it can be."

 She leaned back, her eyes deep amber pools reflecting the fire. "Why not? Why should I not know what it is to be a woman?" She let one glance stray toward the stone figure. I could sense its mounting tension. Soon there would come a shattering, or eruption; but not, I hoped, too soon.

For any other participant’s story, go to: "Come, mistress, I will unbind your stone gladiator, and then you must let me unbind you, and bathe you, and ease you."

"You must be as tired as I, Shebbah."

"Please, mistress, your ease will be my ease." This was truer than she knew. Longings suppressed by hard travel were rising in me.

I sensed tremors of longing in her, too, as I unwound Nyal's wrappings. The heat of her gaze brushed his cold form; I marveled that he did not melt under it.

She watched him broodingly while I filled the copper tub, sprinkled in herbs from my precious silk-wrapped store, inhaled, and felt that even stone might be stirred by such a mist.

"Come now, lady, let me slip off your tunic. And unbind your breasts...ah, mistress, how can you be cruel to such beautiful flesh?" I stroked, very lightly, the silky curves of breasts freed at last from confinement. Her nipples tautened. So did mine.

"Legend says that women warriors once severed them, the better to wield their weapons. At least I have stopped short of that." 

"I am very glad," I murmured, drawing her toward the bath. I would make her very glad, as well. 

Her body, golden in the firelight, was so beautiful I could scarcely breathe. A pulse emanated from the stone figure in the corner; he too was aware, and aroused. How long could he hold his rigid form? 

"What herbs are these?" She bent over the tub, breathing in the vapors. The lines of smoothly muscled legs flared into taut, rounded buttocks, firm as any other athlete's but just full enough to be unmistakably a woman's.

"A blend, my lady, with special soothing powers." I slipped out of my own clothes.

"Soothing?" She sounded doubtful, but stepped in, and sat with bent knees as I poured more water and watched it sheet over her strong shoulders and swirl around the curves of her lovely breasts. 

The herbs were, in fact, more stimulant than relaxant. I closed my eyes and struggled to focus on my art and my role. To give pleasure, to seek out my mistress's longings and fulfill them, to show her unimagined joys; to be slave to her desires, even those she scarcely knew herself.

"Let me massage your neck, Mistress, and your back, to rub away the tension." She leaned forward compliantly. Short bronze curls wrapped about my fingers as I kneaded the stress out of nape and scalp. My hands moved over shoulders and upper back, digging into the firm muscles there.

"Does that ease you, Mistress?" 

But I knew already. At last she had opened to the sensual link that was my greatest skill, and I felt with her the stirrings of her pleasure.

I reached farther down, my breasts pressed against her wet flesh, and she arched under the pressure of my hands on her lower back. Then gently, slowly, I stroked around her sides to her belly and below until my fingers tangled in dark-honey curls.

"Do you call this easing?" Her voice vibrated through her body into mine, but there was no anger in it.

"The wilder the journey, the greater the ease at its end," I murmured. "If I may show you the way, Mistress…" 

She tensed, then grasped my arm and drew me around to face her. "Do you think me so untouched, Shebbah?" 

I said nothing. After a moment she looked away. "I was as curious as any other, but the 'journey' was always brief and disappointing. I found better use for my body in feats of arms."

"Let me show you, Mistress, how much more it can be."

 She leaned back, her eyes deep amber pools reflecting the fire. "Why not? Why should I not know what it is to be a woman?" She let one glance stray toward the stone figure. I could sense its mounting tension. Soon there would come a shattering, or eruption; but not, I hoped, too soon.

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Charity Sunday "Junkyard Dawg"

My charity today is Disabled American Veterans, DAV, chosen to go with my story rather than the other way around. 

DAV’s Mission Statement: 

For over 100 years, DAV has been advocating for better federal veterans programs, benefits, health care and transition services for the men and women who served, their families and survivors.

www.dav.org

I have to admit that among all the charities I get mail from, I’ve never paid attention to veterans’ kinds before. But in fact there are two military plaques in my family cemetery, and there are two big triangular boxes containing skillfully folded American flags tucked away in my house, both handed to me by soldiers at the burials of my two most beloved men. One was in the Army in WWII, and the other was in the Navy during the Vietnam War. Just writing that brings tears to my eyes. Neither was injured in war, but I do have respect for veterans.

My story here , though, is in no way worthy of much of anything, and I probably shoudn’t be rambling on like this. I chose “Junkyard Dawg” at first, because it’s one of my shortest,  and also old enough that it’s very unlikely to be remembered (or to have been read at all.) It’s also not one of my best. I’d forgotten it myself, until I dug deeply into some old documents. It was published in an anthology from Alison Tyler, but I can’t even remember the name of the book or the year.

Well, in any case, here it goes. You know the drill. I’ll contribute $1 for every hit on this blog, and $2 for every comment. And probably more.

Junkyard Dawg

by Sacchi Green

“Hey, Dawg, get your tail on out here!”

But Dawg doesn’t hear me. Not my yell, not the rude squack of my horn, not the clank of the pickup’s tailgate as I lower it, not the tangles of rusty metal spilling out. The guy’s got some kick-ass concentration going when he gets in the groove with fire and hammer and tongs. Sometimes seems like that’s the only time he comes alive since he came back from the war,limping just a bit with a metal foot. Folks have got over by now joking that he must have made it himself. He doesn’t pay attention to much besides his forge.

The forge isn’t the only place he’s been lighting a fire. This time, when I deliver a truckoad of metal scraps, I’m determined to let my heat show through. 

 With a few pieces of metal over my shoulder, runners from a child’s antique pony-sleigh with a lovely curve to them, I weave past the “Junkhouse Dawg” sign at the curb and through the whimsical “Junkhouse Dogs” and other iron creatures scattered across the yard. He welds them together from old tractor parts, tricycles, rakes, scythe blades, cogwheels, springs, and the assorted detritus of a vanishing rural life. They bring in good money at fairs and craft shops around Vermont.

Out in back, fenced away from the casual tourist’s gaze, Dawg’s more serious works are gathered. Surreal, tortured, mythic, they’re gobbled up by New York galleries when he consents to let them go. I like the horned ones best, demons with sharpened hay-fork tines on their arrogant heads, drill-bit teeth in their mouths, and whangs made of anything from hose nozzles to ice-climbing drills to rotary eggbeaters.

“Dawg!” I call again. “Got a load of prime junk for you!”

Dawg shuts out most folks, but we’ve got along okay in the months since I took over my Dad’s antique-and-junque business. What better use for a degree in art history, right? Besides, dealing with Dawg, who takes all my unsaleable bits and pieces of old metal, has been an unexpected bonus.

 I’m about to make it even more so. He never says much, but he’s sure been looking lately, with that dark, piercing gaze of his. I wonder how long it’s been since he’s had sex. Longer even than for me, I’ll bet. It’s high time I had more than his eyes on me.

I set down the sleigh runners outside the forge, shrug out of my denim jacket, adjust my low-cut tank top for maximum bra-less display, and step through the door. Dawg, wielding an acetylene torch, eyes shielded by a safety visor, doesn’t see me. For a minute, until my eye adjust, I can’t tell what he’s working on, and then, when I do see, I can’t believe it.

He’s constructing a woman.

There’s no mistaking the curving wrought-iron torso, or the pair of tin funnels welded to it, although I still can’t make out much detail. But what’s he doing aiming the narrow torch flame right at those pointy tin tits? My breasts tingle and burn in sympathetic excitement. Then, when I realize that he’s melting the funnel tips into nubbly nipples, my own nipples seem to melt and harden in exquisite contradiction.

This is it. No time for thought. I yank off my tank top, fling it onto the molten metal, and watch it flame into brief glory. Dawg swings around, reflexively switching off the torch. 

Now, at last, I have his attention. In the relative dimness, with the torchlight gone, his visor reflects the red glow from the furnace, making his face look as wild and eerie as that of any demon lover. 

“Is that your dream girl?” I ask. “Looks like you could use a real model. Just for starters, this—“ and I cup my breasts, flicking their hardening, aching nipples with my thumbtips, “is how an aroused woman really looks.” 

Dawg draws a shaky breath. “Just for starters?”

“You come and take over this part,” I say, barely stifling sobs as I work my breasts harder and faster, “and we’ll see about the rest.”

He’s on me hard and fast, shoving me against the wall. “You’d better mean it,” he growls, pulling off his visor, still looking, with dark tousled hair and fierce eyes, like the demon of my dreams.

“Try me.” I wriggle out of my cut-offs and guide his hand between my thighs. I’m so wet and ready steam should be rising from my cunt. I want to say, “Is that a hammer in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” but I’m too frantic to get my hands on him to take time for quips. 

Dawg’s heavy work shirt comes off, and then his jeans, tossed at our feet. I pay no attention to the metal foot. His fingers tease and twist my breasts, while mine stroke his butt and then grip his iron-hard cock. If I could bear to raise my mouth from the heavy muscles of his shoulder I would slide down to taste the droplets I feel where he presses against my stomach. But Dawg’s urgency, once triggered, is too fierce for any delay. He lifts me high until my legs start to grip his hips and my cunt grinds against him, then lowers me suddenly to the floor, onto his sprawl of clothes. I open to take him in, lift to lure him deeper, meet his hammering thrusts with my own demand, and I shout my rough release along with his when our need crests in a huge burst of joy.

“That,” I say, when I can say anything, “is still just for starters.”

“You’d better believe it,” Dawg says. “It’s gonna take a long, long time before I can can get this all done right with nuts and bolts and sleigh parts, now that I’ve got a model, but it’ll be worth the effort.” 

I swat at his fine ass, and he grins. The first real smile I’ve ever had from him, and the longest conversation.  

I think I just found my own way of making great art out of things you find in a junkyard. It’s definitely going to be worth the effort.     

For more of this month’s Charity Sunday, go to Lisabet Sarai’s blog:  https://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com