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- This is a re-posting of CLAY COUNTY BLUES. This is one of my
- favorite erotic stories. Most of my other favorite stories are by
- Diedre. Her stories contain strong women like those in Clay County
- Blues. I would like to dedicate this re-post to Dierdre.
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- Yellow Rose
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- A continuing piece of female/female erotica. Beth, a sculptor, and Megan, a
- writer live in a cabin in the North Carolina mountains with their wolf-hybrid
- dog, Cherokee.
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- Clay County Blues (Pt. 1)
- (c) 1991 John H. Hopkins
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- "Be damned if y'all ^look^ like dykes," the redneck from the lumber yard
- said through the open window of the stake-bodied truck that had brought the 2
- x 4's we were going to use to build the frame for Beth's studio. He bobbed
- the bill of his Camel Lights baseball cap in Beth's direction. "Little one
- there's 'bout as fine as fine gets."
- He was right, she is. Especially in the pair of cut-off Levis and
- shrunk-down Tar Heels Basketball tee-shirt that didn't need any help from a
- bra. Which was a good thing because Beth wasn't wearing one. Yes, Beth is
- fine but it wasn't this particular redneck's place to say so and I do
- believe Beth took offense.
- She stood up from where she was sitting at the top of the steps and
- said, "What did you say your name was again?" The redneck looked a little
- confused as he watched Beth walk over to the front door of the cabin and
- reach inside.
- "Lester," he said.
- "Well, Lester," Beth said as she pulled out the 12-gauge Iver-Johnson
- pump she keeps loaded with birdshot and leaning against the wall just inside
- the door, "I do believe you fucked up when you decided to say something
- disrespectful ^before^ you started that truck."
- From the expression on his face, I imagined that Lester might have
- created a serious laundry problem for himself as he watched Beth jack a shell
- into the firing chamber of the shotgun. He sort of froze for a second or
- two and then started scrabbling at the ignition as if his very life depended
- on getting that truck started. Of course, for all he knew it did.
- Beth just stood there on the apron of the porch, holding the gun her
- daddy had given her against her thigh, until the stake-body fired up and
- Lester jammed it into gear. As the truck began to lurch off down our access
- road in the direction of RT 218, Beth shot off the driver's side rear-view.
- She turned around and looked at me.
- "I could shoot his tires, I guess. But that only means the asshole
- would be on our property that much longer."
- She turned back toward the stake-body and shot out both the tail-lights.
- That seemed to get old Lester right motivated and in about fifteen seconds
- all that was left of him was a mist of North Carolina red clay hanging over
- the access road all the way down to the bend.
- Beth went into the cabin and came out again with two long-neck bottles
- of Rolling Rock. She handed me one and sat back down next to me on the top
- step. She took a swig that drained the beer about a third and looked at me
- with the impish grin that still makes my stomach flutter.
- "You reckon old Lester went number one or number two or both?" she said
- and we started laughing in that helpless, uncontrolled way that goes on an on
- and just when it's almost over, one of you starts again, and you finally stop
- because it's the only way you can get a breath.
- When the laughter finally petered out, Beth took another long pull on
- the beer. The bottle was sweaty cold and she rolled it across her forehead
- and then across her breasts through the tee shirt. Her small, crisp nipples
- stiffened in response, pinkly visible through the now-wet fabric. The fabric
- wasn't the only thing that was getting wet and I reached over and ran the
- flat of my hand up the inside of Beth's strong brown thigh.
- She pushed it away, laughing. "No way, hon. We don't have much more
- than an hour of daylight left and today is the day I get that fucking stump
- out ."
- Well, I had promised, so I drained the rest of the beer and went into
- the cabin with Beth right behind me. We put on steel-toed work shoes and
- traded our tee shirts for old, worn bikini tops. I stared hungrily at Beth's
- breasts until they were covered, still horny and melty at the core. She
- caught me looking, just like she always does, giggled and said, "The ^stump^,
- Meg."
- We went down to the woodshed, got our axes and put them next to the
- stump. There had been a long-leaf pine standing pretty much in the center of
- where we intended to put Beth's studio. We had rented a chain saw and cut it
- down. The wood shed was piled high with the harvest of fire wood the pine
- had yielded.
- But we didn't have the money to bring in someone with a backhoe for the
- stump and neither of us wanted anything to do with dynamite so close to the
- cabin. So we decided to cut out our evening run and use the time and energy
- to take the stump out with axes. We'd been at it for almost two weeks and
- it had looked like we were almost done when we finished chopping the day
- before.
- Beth walked over to the boom box and stack of cassettes on the porch.
- "Whaddaya want?" she asked.
- "What do you ^mean^... what do I want? I spent two hours last Sunday
- making a Stones tape especially for the day we finished this sucker for
- good."
- Beth gave me the grin. "I just thought maybe you'd changed your mind
- and would be into some Neil Diamond or something."
- I fucking hate Neil Diamond and Beth knows it.
- I picked up a clod of dirt and faked throwing it at Beth. She put the
- Stones tape in the machine and punched the Play button. As she walked back
- over to the stump, the opening percussion riffs to "Sympathy for the Devil"
- came rolling out of the speakers and across the pine-covered hillside. We
- picked up our axes, faced each other from opposite sides of the stump and
- began to chop away at the nearly severed roots that ringed it, the axe blows
- falling in rhythmic counterpoint to the music. "(Whack) Please allow me
- (whack)... to introduce myself (whack)... I'm a man (whack, whack) of wealth
- and taste..."
- We were sweating inside a minute and the red-clay dust was rising and
- turning in the air as the axes bit into earth and wood. It settled on us
- everywhere, mixing with the sweat, making the long, dark French braid that
- danced against my back feel like the heavy hand of the hillside, urging me
- to greater effort.
- The root I was working went through first and, as "Gimmie Shelter" came
- on, I moved to my left and started on the next. My body was feeling smooth,
- liquid and loose, the way it had felt in a game when the first three jumpers
- went in and the crowd noise became a wave I could ride like a body-surfer.
- From Beth's side of the stump I heard the sound of an axe striking
- nothing but clay and stopped a moment to look across at her. She grinned at
- me, looked down at the stump and said, "How the fuck do you like ^that^,
- Lester, you redneck, homophobic son of a bitch? Now you just hang on for a
- minute here and I'm gonna chop something else off."
- She moved to the next root and the rhythm began again.
- We each went through two more before the first side of the tape ended and we
- looked at each other again across the couple of yards that separated us.
- "Break," Beth said and propped the axe against the stump.
- "Right. My turn to get the beer."
- I fetched four Rolling Rocks from the cabin and we drank them, two
- apiece, sitting hip to hip on "Lester." We were dirty, sweaty, beginning to
- ache. The stump was about to be history and I had never loved Beth more
- since the day we met.
- "Let's get back to it," I said and went over to the porch to flip the
- Stones tape.
- "Hey, Megan," Beth yelled.
- "Yeah?"
- "Love me?"
- Too often I say something smart-ass when she asks a question like that.
- But right then I was loving her too much to play my usual games. I turned
- around and looked right at her.
- "It probably isn't legal how much I love you. Especially in this damn
- state."
- "Then piss on the Rolling Stones, hon. Put on Bonnie Raitt."
- I put on the Bonnie Raitt tape I made, the one with all the up-tempo
- slide-guitar tunes from the albums she made in the '70s with Will McFarlane
- and Jon Hall on guitar. As I was walking back over to the stump our grey
- wolf-hybrid, Cherokee, came trotting out of the woods and went over and sat
- down on the porch.
- "What you been doing, Kee, hunting or getting laid?" Beth asked him.
- Kee yawned and said, "Aroooo."
- Beth shrugged and said, "For a dog that talks as much as he does, he
- doesn't have much of a vocabulary."
- The stinging opening slide-guitar riff from "Sugar Mama" came blowing
- out of the boom box and we went back to work. By the time Bonnie had gotten
- through "Good Enough" and "What Do You Want the Boy to Do?," we were down to
- one last root. Somehow it seemed to mean something that were an odd number
- of roots and that we would be working on the last one together.
- Beth looked at me and raised her eyebrows by way of asking a question.
- I nodded to her to go ahead and take the first blow. She did and, as her axe
- was on the upswing, mine was descending. Bonnie was into "About to Make Me
- Leave Home" but Beth and I weren't into swinging with the tempo any more. We
- began to accelerate the pace of the rising and falling axes until we were
- swinging them as fast as we could, attacking the stump root furiously.
- "Leave Home" ended and "Mighty Tight Woman" came on. I was near to
- exhaustion and if I was at 6'1" and 170, I knew damn well that Beth at 5'3"
- and 120 had to be. Just when even five more swings would have been too much
- my axe went through the root and sank into the ground. Beth checked her axe
- on the upswing and stood there holding it in both hands, panting as hard as
- Cherokee on a bad day in August.
- Her body was covered in red clay dust and sweat, the upper slopes of her
- breasts were heaving above the cups of the bikini top, her short, light-brown
- hair was tangled and dusted with clay, but her eyes were blazing in triumph.
- I spent ten years of my life banging bodies with the big girls under the
- backboards and I was glad, ^damn^ glad, none of them had more than half as
- much heart as Beth.
- We threw our axes on the ground and stood there for a few minutes
- getting our breath back. Beth went into the house and got Rolling Rocks for
- us and a Miller Light for Kee. The dog has no taste in beers whatsoever. I
- went over and backed the Jeep Wrangler up to a spot about ten feet from the
- stump. We drank our beers while we fixed the heavy tow-chain we keep in the
- Wrangler around the stump and attached it to the trailer-hitch on the back
- bumper.
- Beth got in the Wrangler, put it in four-wheel and stepped lightly on
- the gas. I picked up my axe, figuring we were a ways from done yet, but the
- stump came out so easy that Beth drove about ten feet before she realized it
- wasn't putting up any kind of a fight.
- Ten minutes later the stump was down by the compost pile, our axes were
- in the wood shed and Beth and I were sitting on the steps barefoot drinking
- iced well-water out of quart-sized mayonnaise jars. Beer goes down real nice
- when you're working but you can't beat well-water when it comes to fighting
- dehydration. We were both still soaked with sweat.
- Beth flashed me the grin. "Jesus," she said, "five beers and a quart of
- water and I don't even have to piss. I don't think I've worked that hard
- since the day I left for college."
- Beth grew up on a horse farm near Morristown, Tennessee. Her father
- bred quarter-horses and Arabians and it didn't matter to him that Beth was
- small or that she was a girl. He expected her to work just like the biggest
- of the boys.
- Beth's father was a piece of work himself. Beth came home from school
- one day when she was in ninth grade and walked into the barn and told her
- father that she liked girls in the way that most girls liked boys. Her
- father just looked at her like she was the most precious thing in the world
- and said, "Well, if that's the case, maybe I better get old Willie B. to
- teach you how to fight. There's likely gonna be a few times when it might
- come in handy."
- Willie B. was her dad's foreman, a small black man who had been a
- lightweight boxer before he decided that training horses was a better way to
- make a living than losing fights he could have won. Willie B. taught her and
- her taught her real well as more than one redneck asshole like Lester has
- found out the hard way.
- Beth finished her water and put the mayonnaise jar on the porch. "Now,
- let's see," she said and started ticking things off on her fingers, "I got
- the base for the new sculpture started. We got the lumber for the studio
- frame. I shot the shit out of old Lester's truck. We got that damn stump
- pulled up. What the hell else was it I was planning to do today?"
- She stood up and took off the bikini top, unbuttoned and unzipped the
- cut-offs and let them drop around her feet. "Oh, yeah, I know. I was going
- to fuck Megan's brains out."
- She was standing there in a pair of light blue cotton Jockey for Her
- panties, her tennis-ball breasts stark white against the dust covered
- remainder of her upper torso. Within seconds I was wet as I was ever going
- to get. I stood up and started to take the bikini top off.
- Beth started down the steps and said, "I'm going to go get the sauna
- fired up. Get the Vitabath and a bottle of baby oil out of the house."
- She stopped on the bottom step and turned around and looked at me. I
- wasn't wearing underpants and I could feel a tiny trickle of my wetness run
- out from under the leg of my gym shorts.
- Beth shook her head and gave me the grin. "Hon, we're going to have to
- work on this problem you have with repressing your sexuality. Bag those
- shorts and put on a pair of panties. Nylon. I got an idea."
- She turned around and began walking across the yard toward the sauna. I
- stood there drinking in the sight of her firm little bottom moving underneath
- the tight bikini pants. I like looking at Beth's ass almost as much as I
- like it when she gives me the grin and says, "I got an idea."
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