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- Hot And Sour Soup
- by Kneeling Icon
- (wi.5403@wizvax.methuen.ma.us)
-
-
- Hot and Sour Soup
-
- 2 quarts beef stock, chilled, with fat removed
- 4 or 5 dried black mushrooms
- 1 ounce dried black fungus
- 4-5 ounces pork or chicken, cut into long thin slices
- 1 can slivered bamboo shoots, rinsed thoroughly
- 1 green onion
- 1 egg
- 1 cup rice vinegar (ordinary white vinegar will do)
- 1 tsp crushed red pepper
- 1 tsp ground white pepper
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 Tbsp corn starch, tapioca starch, or arrowroot starch
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- several slices of peeled ginger
-
- Susan stood before the stove, staring at the card with her favorite
- recipe for Hot and Sour soup on it. Her concentration wavered as she
- read the card; she had made this dish so many times that she didn't
- know exactly why she had written down the recipe in the fist place.
- It hadn't come from any cook book, but rather had been distilled from
- several, and from her own experiences, until it was the one which
- represented the best way she knew how to make the soup. She had given
- it to countless people upon request.
-
- Place mushrooms and fungus in a shallow bowl, and cover with
- cold water. Set aside. Slice chicken or pork with the grain
- into strips about 1/4 inch wide and 1 1/2 - 2 inches long.
- Place in bowl with ginger slices, marinate with soy sauce.
- Cut greens from onion and set aside. Mince onion whites and
- mix with marinating meat.
-
- Susan started going through the motions mechanically, preparing the
- ingredients to follow the recipe. Her hands did the work while her
- mind wandered in it daze. She wondered if she'd ever see Mark again
- after last night.
-
- She usually waited a few weeks before introducing new boyfriends to her
- toys, but Mark had made an offhand comment that had started her head
- spinning. They had been watching _Misery_, where the world-famous
- celebrity gets restrained and then tortured by a crazed fan. mark had
- commented sarcastically that it embodied two of his fantasies: the
- first to be stuck in a house with a psychotic fat woman, and the
- second to be tied up and beaten.
-
- Even if he *had* been joking, he had said he wanted to be tied up.
- Susan's heart had almost leapt from her breast as she had playfully
- bitten his arm and volunteered to tie him to her bed. She remembered
- how Mark had thought *she* was joking, and had called her bluff.
- "You're too sweet and innocent for that game," he had said. Susan
- recalled the patronized smile she returned while she had imagined what
- a surprise she would inflict on him.
-
- A sharp pain in her hands brought Susan's attention back to the
- present. She looked down at the index finger of her left hand, which
- was bleeding onto the soft white chunks of onion. An interesting
- contrast was presented to her: the pale flesh of her skin under the
- small rivulet of dark red blood, next to the almost clear white of the
- onion. All of this was set on a backdrop of shiny stainless steel
- from the knife and the alternating strips of dark- and light-brown wood
- butcher block. The acid from the onion stung the cut more than the knife
- wound did. She cursed under her breath and scooped the stained
- vegetable into the garbage disposal. One small piece of now-pink
- onion flesh remained, which she picked up and nibbled. A strangely
- sweet blend of onion and blood sprang forth, a coppery taste spreading
- across her tongue.
-
- She plucked another onion from the bunch and started chopping again,
- this time concentrating long enough to finish the job without losing
- more finger or onion.
-
- When mushrooms have expanded fully (approx. 10 minutes),
- rinse mushrooms and fungus several times, and pat dry on
- a paper towel. Cut fungus into strips no longer than 2
- inches. Bring stock to a boil and reduce heat. Add
- mushrooms, fungus, and contents of marination bowl to stock.
-
- Susan led Mark into her bedroom and told him to take off his clothes
- and lie down. She opened the bottom drawer of her dresser and pulled
- out several leather manacles, each with two feet of coarse chain
- attached to them. Mark's eyes hadn't adjusted to the dim light in the
- room, but he heard the clinking of the links as they were lifted from
- the drawer. "Hey, are you some kind of pro at this?" He still
- thought he was joking. Susan merely stood silently and watched him
- finish undressing. He had a nice body, she noticed again. It was
- mainly why she was dating him; he wasn't any too bright.
-
- Mark sat down on the bed and laid back slowly. He stretched his arms
- and legs out in what he thought would be a parody of a spread-eagle
- position. "Is this how I'm supposed to do it?" A vacant sarcastic
- grin adorned his face.
-
- "That's fine." Susan said. "Just relax while I put these on you."
- She started with his right wrist. She wrapped the leather around his
- wrist and buckled it closed. The chain dangled behind the small
- headboard until she slipped one of the links onto the hook she had
- screwed into the bed's leg in that corner. She made sure it was tight
- enough that Mark would be unable to push down into the mattress and
- release the chain. She repeated the process with the other three
- limbs. Blessedly, Mark remained silent. Susan always enjoyed the
- suspense of strapping someone in, and it was often ruined by idle
- chatter from her partner.
-
- She walked slowly back to the open drawer, and squatted in front of it
- while she looked for an appropriate device. She found it in a leather
- flail. She let the many smooth, soft strips of leather run over her
- hands like hair does when hands are run through it. She breathed
- deeply of the leather, but the intoxicating scent had long since been
- replaced by sweat and some small amounts of blood. She wasn't sure
- which odor she wanted more.
-
- She turned back to face Mark, who was watching her intently. "Hey," he
- said, "you *have* done this before!" He sounded very suprised,
- somewhat nervous, and a tiny bit frightened. Susan looked down at
- him with disdain.
-
- "Yes," she said simply. "If you want to stop now, we can."
-
- Mark thought it over for a second, then shrugged as well as he could.
- "Nah...let's keep going. Can we quit after we've started?"
-
- Solemnly, Susan answered. "Yes. If at any time you say ``safeword,''
- I'll stop and let you up. Got that? Say it now."
-
- Mark looked confused. "Safeword?"
-
- Susan nodded. "Say anything else you want. Scream, shout, beg me to
- stop...I'll keep going until you say ``safeword.'' This way you can
- play along but still have an escape. Understand?"
-
- Mark looked away from her for a moment and then looked back. "OK.
- This sounds like fun." He didn't sound convinced at all, but Susan
- was too excited to care. She'd had a brand new toy delivered to her
- bed by his joking attitude, and she intended to play with it.
-
- Once meat has turned completely white (approx 5 minutes),
- add black, red, and white pepper. You may add more red pepper
- if hotter soup is desired. Add vinegar slowly, tasting
- periodically, until desired sourness is reached.
-
- Susan watched distantly as the chicken began to turn white. The
- strips of fungus turned small cartwheels in the convection currents of
- simmering soup. She was entranced.
-
- Mark had forced his chin down as far as it would go, trying to watch
- the flail as Susan dragged it across his chest. She was teasing him
- while she teased herself. She wanted to hit him with it, but the
- smooth tanned skin seemed almost too beautiful to harm. She watched
- the leather strips slide over his chest, drooping across his well-formed
- pectorals as the flail moved slowly towards his stomach. The little
- tendrils twisted around each other, displaying the dark side, and then
- the lighter side. She watched with fascination as the strips traced
- over the lumpy muscles in his stomach, manifesting Mark's musculature
- in smooth contours of leather. This guy definitely had the best body
- she'd ever attracted.
-
- She saw him twitch slightly, and tickled him briefly with the flail.
- She used it like a feather duster against his ribs until he laughed a
- little, and resumed her march along his body. She let the flail glide
- over his stomach again, dragging her left hand behind it to verify
- that the muscles there were as taut as they looked. They were. She
- guided her leather pointer between his hips toward his penis, which
- was rigidly erect in anticipation. Mark was turned on by this
- treatment, she figured. She lovingly caressed his dick with the
- leather, making a lazy circuit around his shaft before continuing on.
- He had a well-formed, classically male penis, with a smooth, bulbous
- head. Exactly the kind that she liked. Of course, she thought to
- herself, there aren't many kinds I *don't* like!
-
- She pulled her flail farther, along his thighs, leading it in a gentle
- swishing motion across the bulges under his skin. Again her hand
- probed the strength behind the leather. When she reached the tip of
- his toes, she knew that she had no excuse to delay any more.
-
- She drew the flail back from his feet, and brought it back with about
- half of her strength onto the sole of his right foot. Every muscle in
- his leg jumped, and his arms strained mightily. Susan was quite
- impressed by the display of muscles in his arms. She liked strong
- arms.
-
- "SHIT!!" Mark screamed. "What was that for?"
-
- Add bamboo shoots to soup, stirring constantly. Chop onion tops
- crosswise so that small tubes are left. They should be about
- 1/4-inch in length. Set aside. In a small bowl, scramble the
- egg. Set aside. Mix starch into approx. 1/4 cup of cold water.
- Set aside.
-
- Susan added the spices to her soup and started on the onions. She had
- extra from using a second onion, so she threw a small handful into the
- soup. She knew they'd wilt completely, but she didn't really care.
- She wondered if the flavor would change any. Her hand went over to
- autopilot for the egg scrambling.
-
- Susan dragged the flail along his leg towards his head again, stopping
- occasionally to strike him with it, never hard enough to cause him to
- complain, but always hard enough to make him wince. She liked this
- toy.
-
- When the flail reached his stomach, Susan hit him with it with about
- three-quarters of her strength. This time she was prepared for the
- spasm in his muscles, and was watching his arms as they bulged.
- "Goddamn it, that *hurts!* This is supposed to be fun," Mark
- bellowed. It *is* fun, Susan told him silently. She watched the
- beautiful little patches of darkening skin coalesce on his stomach. A
- thin sheen of sweat was starting to build up all over his body.
-
- Her gaze was drawn back to his dick, where she could see the veins
- stand out under the skin. That was new...despite his complaints, he's
- getting harder. She decided to sample this delicacy. She knelt by
- the bedside, even with his pelvis, the flail held in her left hand.
- She bent over slightly, looking straight down at Mark's gorgeous proof
- of manhood. Sweat glistened on it, too. She stuck out her tongue and
- licked the head briefly, tasting the salt from the surface. Mark did
- not complain.
-
- Susan kissed the head, and pushed down, letting the tip force open her
- lips. She took the first inch or two into her mouth. It was enough
- so that she could close her lips to suck gently, but not so much as to
- prevent her from circling the shaft with her tongue. Mark moaned in
- appreciation. Susan accepted the compliment silently.
-
- Susan toyed with the dick for a moment longer, enjoying the salty
- flavor of it, before continuing onward. She pushed the shaft into her
- mouth as far as she could take it. She wished she could take it all,
- but she did not have that ability. Up and down she went, slowly,
- while moving her tongue as much as possible. She maintained the
- steady suction she had learned at age 15 that was so important. She
- kept it up for a few minutes, but Mark didn't seem to be nearing the
- edge. She gave herself a moment's rest by withdrawing completely and
- looking over Mark's body. He looked very relaxed. She decided to
- change that. She brought the flail down against his skin as hard as
- she could from her awkward position. Mark jumped again, screaming.
- "Owwww! Hey, why did you...."
-
- Susan silenced him with her lips againt his. He resisted momentarily
- but then submitted, and returned the kiss. Susan tasted salt there,
- too, and heat from his tongue. She reluctantly moved her attentions
- back to Mark's dick. He didn't seem to mind.
-
- She started at the tip again, but licked and kissed down the underside
- of the shaft instead of taking it into her mouth. When she reached
- his loosely-hanging testicles, she kissed one lightly, sucking her
- lips onto it. She opened her mouth slowly and increased her suction
- until the organ popped into her mouth like a large peanut M&M. She
- wondered remotely if it would melt in her mouth. She sucked very
- gently and licked the surface, wishing that balls didn't have hair on
- them. They would be so much more fun without the hair. Mark squirmed
- in pleasure.
-
- As Susan released her hold she wondered how Mark would react to having
- his nut bitten, but figured he would probably take it as some sort of
- emasculating insult. Guys were weird that way. She drew her tongue
- against the shaft of his penis again, and started back up along it.
- When she reached the tip, she plunged it back into her mouth. Mark
- "mmmmmed" in pleasure.
-
- After another couple of minutes of doing her best work on him, Susan
- decided that he was one of those guys who just had a hard time coming
- from blow jobs, even excellent ones. He needed some more stimulation.
- She pulled away from his waist and transferred the flail to her right
- hand, looking for a likely spot to attack. The glimmer of an idea
- grew in her, but she wasn't sure it was the right thing for her
- purposes.
-
- Add starch solution slowly, stirring soup constantly, until
- soup starts to thicken. If soup fails to thicken from starch,
- repeat with another Tbsp. of starch mixed into 1/4 cup water.
- When soup is thick, bring briefly to a boil, and turn off
- heat. Stir in onion tops. Slowly dribble egg into soup with
- a fork. DO NOT STIR WHILE DOING THIS!! Make large circles
- over the surface of the soup, letting egg sink into soup and
- then resurface. Be sure not to clutter the soup with too
- much egg.
-
- Susan thickened her soup with skill, making sure not to thicken too
- much. She knew that the soup might gel up on her, and then it would
- be useless. She would have to water it down if that happened, and it
- wouldn't taste right afterwards.
-
- She looked over Mark's body again, but kept coming back to her first
- idea. Finally she went with it, on intuition. She raised the flail a
- few feet and struck Mark with it, squarely across the underside of his
- dick. He lurched as if he had been touched with a live electric wire.
- He shouted at her. "Hey, that's not funny! That hurts! I..." She
- hit him again. "Owwwwwww! What the *HELL* are you doing? I thought
- this was supposed to feel good!" While Mark was babbling, Susan
- transferred the flail to her left hand, and held up his dick with her
- right. She flogged him once on the top side. He jumped again, and
- started complaining right away.
-
- Susan put down the flail and resumed her lip work. Mark's sudden gasp
- and subsequent silence convinced her that she had done the right
- thing. She wondered how much the flail had sensitized his dick. She
- knew it wouldn't be long before he came. She sped up her pumping
- motions.
-
- Susan tasted the warning signs seconds before Mark came. She felt the
- tension build in his hips as he moved in time with her, until his hips
- shot up. She pushed herself down as far as she could manage, and felt
- the pumping of the underside of his dick against her cheek. Warm,
- salty fluid spilled onto her tongue, rewarding her efforts with the
- taste of success. She savored the tablespoon or so that emerged on
- its own, and coaxed another few drops by squeezing the her fingers at
- the base and sliding them towards the tip. Mark's stomach convulsed
- briefly with the extra pleasure. As Susan pulled away from him, she
- noticed that his dick was quite red. She wondered whether it was from
- her or from the leather.
-
- Serve hot, with fried chow mein noodles. Serves 8-10.
-
-
- Susan sat at her dining room table, with the bowl of steaming soup in
- front of her. She remembered the difficult moments after Mark had
- come, when he had called "safeword," for reasons she still didn't
- understand. He had been red-faced and embarassed as he had pulled his
- clothes back on as fast as he could. He had left with only a few
- terse words and had practically run down the hall from her door.
-
- She shrugged and set into her soup. It was delicious.
-
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