A Wind Shear is a story about a woman who is skating on the edge of insanity. It is the interplay between the conscious and the unconscious; between real life and a barely repressed fantasy life. Because the balance has become so precarious she finds herself helpless before fantasies that threaten to overwhelm her at any moment. Alarmed, she seeks help but only to find that a male presence in the closeness of a small office only serves to cause a powerful upsurge in her barely repressed fantasies.
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Yesterday she took a really big hit, the worst so far, and it seemed to last a long time. It scared the hell out of her! They were coming more frequently now, and each one harder and longer than the last. When they first started Meredith wondered if she was coming down with something, maybe the flu. But now she knew it was more than that. Something was dreadfully wrong! The last one was more like a whole-body seizure.
In the wake of that episode, she had been left profoundly shaken, trembling, and scared out of her wits. There was a queer, disorienting feeling, and there was something else. She felt a curious tingle of arousal, a quickening, definitely sexual arousal it put her on edge. She spent the rest of the day horny, and in a daze, thinking constantly of sex. And she didn't sleep at all that night, terrified, convinced she going out of her mind!
They had started a week ago. The first "wind shear" - those were the words that came to her mind - was no more than a wave of dizziness that swept over her and just as quickly evaporated. She shrugged it off; vaguely wondering if she really was too young to be having hot flashes. But later that day another one hit her; the next day, two more in rapid succession. Sufficiently alarmed by now, she immediately called her doctor.
Her doctor did all the usual tests, but she could find nothing wrong. She put her on Prozac; it didn't help. Then she suggested, somewhat tentatively, that Meredith see a psychotherapist.
And so she ended up at Dr. Glass's. As it happened, Meredith was on her way downtown to the doctor's office when the massive one overtook her, slamming into her with hard thud that took her breath away. When she recovered, leaning over and gasping on the sidewalk, the hot flash had settled in, and on its heels the sudden warmth, the wooziness that left her so weak she had to sit down, or lean against something solid while she panted, struggling to regain her equilibrium. Then came the shearing noise, like sheet of paper being torn, and the world around her blurred into a shimmering haze for a few panic-stricken seconds before abruptly snapping back into place: perfectly clear and reassuringly solid, just as before.
But now, there was a difference; Meredith found herself in a bright new reality! It was a weird out-of-body experience. Suddenly, she saw herself moving as in a dream in some intense, unbelievably wild, erotic experience - one that left her tingling and breathless with sexual anticipation.
Before her was a girl, just a few paces in front of her, walking briskly away. From behind she could see that the girl was tall and slender, built like her, with the same helmet of smooth caramel streaked hair, gently curved and falling to the collar. The girl was striding down the street with determination as though in a hurry, and Meredith felt the urge to keep up with her.
But the most startling thing was the way the girl dressed. She was all in black; an erotic outfit of shiny latex. A short vest tightly hugged her thin, small-breasted body, and leaving bare her long arms and lanky shoulders. A shockingly tiny miniskirt swished along her striding thighs as she moved with arrogant indifference. She seemed oblivious of the devastating effect she was having on passersbys, brazenly showing off those elegant legs sheathed in long black stockings, sleek calves encased in high leather boots.
The girl could be her twin - an evil twin sister, Meredith thought. (She herself would never be caught dead in such an outrageous outfit!) But she instinctively knew: this girl was not her sister. It was herself. It was as though she was watching herself strolling down the street. She stood by - a detached observer, watching the brazen young woman, admiring that proud high-heeled strut, the provocative sway of those mini-skirted hips.
Suddenly, she felt she had to talk to the booted girl. She was running, chasing after her, her heart racing, her pulse pounding. She was right behind her when she reached out to touch her shoulder; the girl spun around to face her.
Meredith was stunned. The face she saw, the face that met hers - was her own, looking back at her as in a closely-held mirror! Under the familiar fringe of bangs, she found herself staring into dark brown eyes that were wide open and curiously glazed over. And just below those startling, unseeing zombie-eyes, were the lips and mouth, splattered with a sticky white gruel: the unmistakable residue of male climax dribbled down her chin. Some man had used her, left his cum on her face!
It was lust, pure lust that powered up in her, radiated through her entire body, shook her like the racking prelude to an orgasm. She was in the grip of an overpowering urge to touch her vagina, her "pussy", her "cunt". The words came to her with new power. The throbbing yearning to pleasure herself proved irresistible, her hand moving down between her legs with a will of its own.
The world shimmied once again in a dizzying blur, and when it snapped back, Meredith was left standing there on the street flushed and sweating...and to her surprise, definitely wet between her shaking legs. Had she actually touched herself...there? In public; on the street? She was back on familiar 7th Avenue, once more among the indifferent crowd of New Yorkers, a few of whom looked at her with mild concern before moving to sidestep the well-dressed, staggering woman as they hurried by.
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