Place. Hold. Set.
Soft. Closed. Tight.
Length. Breadth.
Depth.
Push. Clutch. Pushing.
Tighter. Harder.
Dry. Big. Give.
In. Warm.
Deep. Drag.
Then deep then drag.
Then deep then drag again.
And again.
âIs this what you want?â her brother, from behind her, stroking.
âmm-mhuhâŚ; more â â like you did them, she said, his sister, naming names.
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They sat across from George in a row from left to right, Maggie and their three girls â teenaged and too-true, triplets â his bevy of beauties, his lifeâs share of ladies; his twin sister and their daughters, their bare legs all, crossed right-over-left, his females grinning at him, especially Maggie, and he was fervently grateful to God to be the felled prey in this catfight among his women. Maggie, forty-one and green bikini-ed, still supple and smolderingly mature â he otherwise liked better her broader behind â and The Coup: Eleanor, Bridget, and Gretchen, identical and identically almost dressed in red â strings & a few swatches of fabric, as if wearing only samples of complete bikinis â three sets of blue eyes and dark brown hair, all ivory white softness and ready heat, they could brood and conform like George, laugh and swear like Maggie, had neither of their parentsâ innate talent but were intelligent even more so, buying into none of the illusions of culture: sex was what it is, and morality was how you defined it.
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George wrote music where he was. Heâd listen to the jukebox at the bar, or, at home, to the radio randomly for melodies he wished he had written: jotting down words, phrases, changing whole hooks, verses, and themes to suit his tastes and mood, then incorporate them into guitar or piano â and still more changes â until heâd arranged anotherâs work into something completely different and that he could call his own, as far as copyright laws and awards ceremonies were concerned. Maggie edited his drafts for signs of life and marketability. They then together sang and harmonized and further arranged the sound until someoneâd buy it. Theyâd always done it this way.
At the house, scribbling, and plinking or strumming through some confusion heâd created, the girls, home from their senior year at prep school â behavioral science & psychology â would take turns gleefully teasing their father with their newfound adult bodies and wiles, boldly wandering by in underwear that hardly qualified â waiting on the laundry, or for their hair to dry â and have a seat sideways in his lap, swinging an arm around his neck, setting their breasts under his nose and giving his lap a little grind â âhi daddy, whatchya doin`, howâs it goin`?â Maggie could see this, and was as much amused by her own small jealousy as she was by her Georgieâs helplessness â what could he say? âIâm hard-up for my daughters â make `em stopâ?
While developing their undergraduate dissertation, itâs thesis was still unclear; any one of the girls alone wouldnât dare their father for exploratory sex, but as a group â The Coup, each alternately boss or baby-doll in their secret, fluid hierarchy â the three of them could brave their ambitions and gang-up on daddy, objectively reasoning through and rationalizing, even justifying, their ambush as scholarly and clinical, however sexually charged: âHe wants to fuck us: whatâs it like to let himâŚto want to let him? Bad? â itâs our ideaâŚwhy? â weâre entitled to him⌠and heâs got no real problem with it â Oedipus wanted to screw his mother, but did his mother half mind the attention?â Theyâd write the paper collaboratively, purportedly as pure theory, interviewing only each other and limiting their research to just the one sex act â his fetish â that daddyâd not refuse and would preserve their virginity in the traditionally strictest sense. Theyâll have changed the names and would deny everything, having since destroyed their notes.
At least thatâs how theyâd sell it to mom; Maggieâd know better, but would appreciate the lie.
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George was downstairs in the studio, where heâd be for the evening, so when Maggie came in on them in the den, it was now just the four females sitting around loopy and b.s.ing in that honest way the cold-sober cannot â the girls passing the joint and a drink to her as usual, Maggie having had to hang up her âmommy hatâ a year or so ago; the girls had killed the video though, in mid-scene, when they had heard her at the door, and so it appeared they had been just hanging out in the quiet.
Talk of anything else, as always, became talk of sex â revealing, and, among themselves, comfortable and funny: they agreed masturbation was never awkward â we donât make mistakes with ourselves â and their mother confirmed for her young daughters that a good fuck was always great, the virgins werenât wrong to dream of it.
âWeâve got pornâ they offered, and their mother thought this would be good: what did her daughters think hot?
The flick resumed where it had been stopped, the two young people thrown in action. Maggie recognized her Georgie first, then a moment later the room â this room â and though she hadnât watched the home movie in years, when the blondie he was sodomizing looked up, it would be her.