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- Jeff Fookson, Center for Neural Science, NY University (jeff@cns.nyu.edu)
-
- Women on the Train
-
- As long as I can remember I've been nosy, loving to evesdrop on
- conversations I could overhear and watch the people around me. So when I
- moved to Connecticut and had to start commuting by train to my job in New
- York City, I had the perfect setting to indulge my solitary vice. The
- trains didn't run often so I was always on that same 6:29 to Grand Central
- and I would end up in the front car in pretty much the same seat each
- morning.
-
- Well, I guess I'm not the only creature of habit, because I would see
- many of the same faces and I got to know them, where they'd sit, what they
- would bring to pass the time, and something of their dispositions -- some
- sunnily fresh and clear-eyed despite the hour, some dour or grumpy,
- unhappy with the quality of sleep they had interrupted or perhaps some-
- thing much deeper. Initially, I watched the various folk with a somewhat
- detached air. After a time, however, my diffuse curiosity began to have a
- focus and I would watch for HER, actually for THEM at first, because she
- used to ride with her husband, a huge, loutish sort of man with a flaccid,
- vacuous-looking face who I quickly dubbed "the Neanderthal" despite his
- properly neat business suit. From his looks, I imagined he was rather
- dumb. She was much smaller, with brown shoulder-length hair and soft
- features, round gold-rimmed glasses accenting doe-eyed sweetness. She was
- pretty and I was drawn to her physically but what was really compelling in
- those first days was how they got along. No matter how they were when
- first they boarded, sometimes seemingly close and affectionate, sometimes
- more neutral, their mood would always turn sullen. She might ask some
- simple question, make some ordinary remark. "Carol", he would reply with
- a tone of high-arched condescension and that would be followed by some
- kind of sneering put-down or belittling remark. I could see her hurt pro-
- test, expression timid and sexily pleading, and the Neanderthal's rejec-
- tion. She could only pull into herself and turn away, and by the end of
- every trip both their faces were hardened and they left the train in cold,
- stony silence.
-
- I wondered at the quality of their lives, about the mix of her needi-
- ness and his brutality, and I could easily imagine the scenes of humiliat-
- ing sex that empowered their union. I could see her, wet with yearning,
- swollen labia puffed with desire and hope, and he with his Harlequin
- Romance aloofness keeping her on the edge, on the edge, on the edge...I
- felt sorry and protective, and I knew she deserved better. I thought of
- how I could love her tenderly, but somewhere I was also aware that her
- playing victim might be hiding a passive but potent executioner. Perhaps
- in her almost coquettish petulance was the sign that she was not so inno-
- cent. But, God, how I wanted her!
-
- And then, suddenly one day, she was alone! "He must be ill", I
- thought. "Tomorrow he'll be back." But the day became a week, became two,
- became a month until finally I could only assume that they were no longer
- together. (That he perhaps had only changed jobs or was out of work did
- not occur to my fevered imagination.) I eagerly watched for her each day,
- looking for some sign of joy or remorse or anger or despair as a hint of
- what might have happened, but she gave no clue.
-
- About this time, my obsession was diverted a bit by the appearance of
- another woman who boarded the station before Carol's. Unlike Carol's wan,
- neurotic style, this new woman strode through the car to her seat radiat-
- ing fresh, healthy energy. From the first time I noticed her, I thought
- she had the ruddy color and open (but a little spacey) look of someone who
- has recently been partner to glorious lovemaking. With more than a little
- jealousy, I watched as Carol often chose to sit with her, and that they
- seemed to be hitting it off.
-
- In any event, most of my attention still was directed towards Carol.
- I tried to chose a seat so that she would sit directly in front of me,
- hoping my fervent wishes would guide her to it. I watched her remove her
- coat, waiting to see what silk blouse or tight sweater she had chosen that
- morning, trembled as her wonderful breasts strained against the fabric as
- she reached up to place her coat on the overhead rack. "Oh, Carol," I
- breathed silently. My heart ached to kiss her tenderly on the back of her
- bare neck. I could feel myself doing it, saying "I couldn't stand the way
- he treated you! I'm so happy for you he's gone!" I could feel her melting
- against me in gratitude and instant love, turning to kiss me full on the
- lips as we embraced, soft-breathed honey-sweetness quickly becoming pas-
- sionate need, our hands kneading each others' bodies, oblivious to the
- other riders. "Let's get off the train at the next stop -- no work
- today!", I could hear myself saying.
-
- I see us getting off, sunlight filtering through greygreen, midsummer
- leaves, feel the fecund earth as we run silently like shy children through
- woods into the fields of rural Connecticut, our attache cases flopping
- against our sides. It is my favorite kind of summer's day -- gusty
- southwest winds, hazy sky filled even at this early hour with towering
- cumulus before an approaching squall line, oven heat awaiting the splash
- of raindrops. Finally alone together, we lie down in the meadow-flowered
- grass, a faint blush of tears showing the emotions not yet out. It is a
- moment of such heart-stopping tenderness that it catches in my throat and
- seems to last forever, but little-by-little the look in our eyes, the ache
- in our groins, reminds us why we are here, and we slowly, slowly begin to
- kiss -- deep bottomless kisses that leave us stunned. Carol's lips work
- against mine, her tongue prodding my teeth to part. Our tongues touch and
- slide inside each other's open mouths, languid but intense as they explore
- moist, warm hollows, searching, finding, slowly building with ever-so-slow
- motion.
-
- I cannot tell where I end and the world begins. My penis is rock-hard
- inside my underpants and it draws my concentration urgently downward; but
- time is also strangely stayed. I become aware of the throb of life around
- me -- the drone of insects, the swish of wind through the drying meadow,
- the songs of birds. Gently touching Carol's face, I show her what I am
- watching -- two speckled ladybugs mating on a blade of grass. We watch in
- idle, contented fascination feeling our essential sameness with those
- lowly beings.
-
- Carol's touch brings me back to us as she takes my hand and smiling,
- guides it under her skirt to wet it with the fluid already covering her
- inner thighs, brushes me across the swollen nub of her clit, and then
- brings it to my nose and lips so that her musky scent invades my soul.
- Pulling us together with her other hand on the back of my neck, she moves
- her own lips to catch my hand between our mouths and begins to suck my
- thumb, pulling it against her inner cheeks, stroking it with her tongue
- which darts out to caress my palm. She pushes my other fingers into my own
- mouth and says "Suck me like I'm sucking you! Suck yourself and me"! Her
- tongue probes the web of skin between my thumb and fingers, and she pulls
- me deeper into her mouth, rubbing me between her cheeks and teeth, against
- her gums. I taste my sweat mingled with her juices and feel the pleasure
- of my fingers stimulating my own mouth.
-
- By now our clothing is soaked. Although all of it is still on, I have
- never felt more naked. We are both so aware of our rhythm, building like a
- breaking wave rushing up the sand only to retreat, easing back again so
- that moment can go on forever. I move behind Carol, my arms encircling her
- waist and slipping upwards to her breasts. In my mind's heart I have felt
- them many times, watching on the train, but the first sensations through
- her thin silk blouse floods me with a memory of schoolboy adolescent fan-
- tasy, gained from furtive reading of many dirty books in those days, that
- a woman's whole breast and not merely the nipple stiffened under passion's
- fingers -- for she is so unbelievably hard and hot! I ease the garment
- over her head and almost swoon as my hands find the raised, puckered
- border of her areolas, and then, nipples achingly long and stiff as
- fingertips. Wetting my fingers in the rivulet of sweat trickling between
- her breasts, I stroke her nipples, playing with them. They have the deli-
- cate, chewy, springy texture of just-kneaded dough. Mewing softly, Carol
- moves her head forwards so that I can nuzzle the back of her soft, downy
- neck. I run my fingers in the creases behind her ears, massage her ear-
- lobes, and then my hands slip down over her breasts again, down further,
- palms against her stomach, slipping under the waistband of her skirt, eas-
- ing it over her slim hips so that it drops to the earth. Her body shivers
- despite the late July heat as I undo her underpants in the same way --
- caressing her ears, breasts, stomach, hands under the elastic, pausing to
- stroke the pad of flesh just above and under her pubic hair, brushing my
- thumbs along the folds between her vagina and inner thighs, and then her
- underwear is off.
-
- The wind raises little goosebumps on her nakedness as she looks at
- me, her limpid, gentle eyes showing a mix of pride and modesty and lust.
- Her breath comes in soulful gasps as she says "Now we get you naked, too!"
- She sits down in the grass, legs spread, and pulls me to her. She is
- already fully open, soft pink folds of wetness going way down deep inside,
- the head of her clit reaching out achingly from its hood. Moaning, Carol
- rubs her outer lips, pulls her foreskin even further down the shaft of her
- button, and pushes forward as her inner lips pulse rhythmically, oozing
- wave after wave of slick clearwhite liquid. She is looking up at me with
- that expression of almost petulant need that I used to see directed at her
- husband, that expression that had made me want to protect and soothe her
- with lustful tenderness, that had generated such amazing desire to rip her
- clothing off while being nice, while saving her from her husband's brutal-
- ity -- and now that look is directed towards me!
-
- Gently I flick my tongue in the crease of skin just outside her cunt,
- move down one leg in a series of soft, wet kisses -- thigh, behind her
- knee, calf, ankle and then lick the bottom of her foot, suck her toes,
- probing and teasing them with my tongue. As I am making love to her foot,
- my hands reach higher, sliding along her legs to slip my thumbs inside her
- swollen, squishy vagina. My thumbs slide around her clit, rubbing from the
- bright red tip along its shaft to nuzzle against her mons. Gently working
- the hood back and forth over her stiffened bud, I can feel the inside
- swell further and retreat into its covering, which I know means she is
- close to coming. I tease her parted labia with my tongue, which easily can
- reach deep inside to lick her swollen, inner lips, along the front wall of
- her vagina, and then the bottom side of her clitoris. I am in that ecstasy
- of sense, drenched in taste and odor, liquid coursing over my face and
- chin, finally out of my ever-so-controlling head. Carol moans a sound so
- painfully, yearningly sweet, like a cat, almost and her breathing becomes
- a coarse rasp deep from within, urgent. By instinct, my pace shifts a
- bit, slowing to hold her off a bit, then up again. She grabs at my head
- buried deep inside her legs, and I feel her fingers at the back of my
- neck, clenching, trying to pull me deeper. Suddenly her whole body
- arches, becoming rigid and the noises of her breathing change from the
- mechanical sound of air going in and out to a plaintive, half-human,
- half-animal wail of concentrated, congested pressure...ah, ah, ah, aH,
- aHH, AOHHRRRGGGGHHHHHHH, EXPLODING, quickly, into rippling waves of
- release, a soft-breathed oasis of boundless calm...
-
- Then, after a long while of just being, her hands are on me. She
- kisses my crotch, and explores with her lips and tongue to outline the
- shape and size of my painfully constrained cock pressed against my pants.
- Even through the two layers of fabric, the sensation is exquisite agony,
- and for some reason I think of the fairy-tale princess whose sleep is
- drastically disturbed by a pea under many, many mattresses. She rubs me,
- playing her hands over the spot of wetness spreading on my pants, and mas-
- sages the head of my penis, squeezing it between her fingers. She presses
- and cups my testicles, pressing a little more lightly, and the stain on my
- clothing grows larger. Undoing my belt, Carol slips her hand under the
- waistband, one in front rubbing the sides of my cock and the other down my
- ass, fingers in the crack. She rolls the elastic of my underpants, bunch-
- ing the garment down as far as she can, teasingly stroking my erection.
- Then she brings her hands together underneath my crotch, pressing her
- fingers firmly on my perineum. She listens to the changes in my breath,
- following its cues, pushing harder and harder, faster and faster, then
- dropping back a bit, then pressing again. I am making noises, almost bab-
- bling, almost losing it and I want to wait but she's refusing me. Oh, God,
- no, NO, NO, NO...I am moaning. Not now! But I'm suddenly at that point
- where control doesn't matter, where me watching me, holding on, is going
- to give way...
-
- And Carol quickly makes a ring with her fingers just under the head
- of my cock and squeezes...HARD! Hold it, hold it, HOLD IT, she
- says...stunning me with the sharpness and hair-trigger effect of being
- caught at the brink, feeling the first jets of cum blocked from release,
- suspended for a moment, and the slowly ebbing back, breathing slowly slow-
- ing. She loosens her grip and slides the ring of her fingers down my
- penis to caress my balls, then slides back up to milk a large drop of cum
- from the head. I can only gaze in wonder at her smiling, contented face.
-
- After a while, we hug, she finishes undressing me, and we hug again,
- finally skin to skin. We pull each other to lie in the tall meadow, and
- listening to the sounds, breathing in the scent of dusty summer. The wind
- has picked up sharply and a high veil of white has moved in from the west
- to cover half the sky. Low on the horizon, an unmistakable dark line of
- thunderhead is edging up. A distant rumble echoes off the far hills to
- Carol's announcement "Wow -- it's going to storm! Don't you just love it?"
-
- I nod, noting that we're fairly safe, low in the fields with high
- trees nearby. It is too dramatic, too fitting to our resonant, intense
- states of mind, to leave now. We lie on our backs, legs entangled, and
- watch the purplish light invade the landscape. Somehow we both feel what
- edge to keep on each other's arousal, teasing just enough, fingering just
- enough, smearing each other's juices playfully, saving the rest for later.
- Quickly the world turns ever darker, the wind whips the trees, the birds
- and bugs fly low. A gust, much cooler, suddenly from the west, brings the
- low scudding line of cloud overhead as flashes of yellowwhite lightning
- outline the boiling tops of the squall. It rains, a few large drops
- splatter on the dry dirt, then quickly turn torrential. We can hardly see
- the windwhipped woods, save for the almost eerie, stroboscopic effect of
- the lightning. The heavy raindrops sting as they pelt our naked bodies,
- bringing a blush of rosy, pink color to our skin. Above us, water catches
- in the seeded sheathes of the late summer meadowgrass, bending them low
- with the added weight, and the rain pours from their tips onto us. It runs
- down and between our legs, teasing our still-aroused genitals, and it
- streams over our faces like tears of joy.
-
- The sky to the west brightens suddenly and the rain subsides to a
- steady, calmer patter, and the noise and fury depart eastward. We cau-
- tiously stand up, hand in hand, and begin to dance in the wet field, feel-
- ing the sensuous tickle of the tall, wet grass on our bare legs and feet.
- Music is in my head and I begin to sing -- it is the sublimely humble and
- transcendent song that ends the Beethoven 6th. I hear the theme, played by
- the horns, simple and resonant, and then the strings, weaving in and about
- the melody in garland of radiant thankfulness after the storm. Carol
- smiles at me tenderly and in simple recognitions says "ah, yes -- the Pas-
- torale." And she starts a kiss as deeply felt as the music, pressing her-
- self into me, hands on my neck and back, warm tongue in my mouth moving
- slowly, awakening the physical need again...
-
- "Last stop -- Grand Central Terminal" the conductor calls out! Carol,
- still unaware, still unspoken-to, stands, adjusts her thin blouse, and
- gets off the train to head for work. "I could follow her to her office," I
- think. "I could... I could..." But of course none of this would ever hap-
- pen, and that would be the end of that... But that a copy of this
- manuscript slipped from my pocket as I ran to get the subway. A few days
- later, I'm stunned when Carol takes the seat next to me on the train and
- hands a bunch of papers to me saying "I think you dropped these."
-