Ward Fulton - The Forbidden Family Game

"When I shot my load into her she raised way off the bed and then dropped back, shuddering and hanging on to me, letting out soft little cries that didn't say anything and meant she'd loved every minute of it.

"Mother Darling walked in on us just about then, took a good, long slow look and backed out.

"Clarissa, her face flaming, hopped out of bed and started dressing hurriedly, crying a little and saying, 'What must she think of me! What must she think of me!'

"I tried to tell her that without her contact lenses Mother Darling couldn't tell whether it was; two seals in bed together. Which is true. And I knew her eyes had been giving her a little trouble so she wasn't wearing her contact lenses-and she's too vain to break out her glasses, which she does sometimes to read fine print on contracts and such, but always in private.

"I didn't convince Clarissa, who was still having the shakes when I walked her up to the bar for a limeade; Even so, she put on a good act for her aunt, who had been dozing all the time. So she was okay.

"I knew I wasn't, though. Mother Darling may not have been able to tell who was in that bed, but she sure knew one of them was me. And I was going to catch it.

"I managed to avoid Mother Darling until dinner time, knowing she wouldn't say anything at the table or in the salon afterward. It came after we went down to bed.

"I was in my cabin, knowing it was coming but not how. And she walked in, stark-naked and slinking over to the bed. I think it was the slink that gave her away. Normally she just went right after what she wanted-my love-muscle. So, if she was slinking, she was putting on an act. And she didn't know but one act-the young, wistful charmer. The rest was the real her. She was giving a bad imitation of Natalie Wood trying to do a Theda Bara vamp act.

"I just sat up and looked at her, astonished. You can't believe what a lousy actress she really is, outside her one role. I just shook my head at her. 'No, baby. We don't play tonight.' That would never have stopped her if she'd really been in the mood for a good hard fuck. Nothing stopped that. But what I said stopped her cold. She blinked at me and straightened out of that phony slink. 'It's that foolish, silly little girl! She's being giving you notions.'

"I nodded, mostly because that's how I had decided to play it, nonchalant and a trifle bored. 'Yes, that foolish, silly little girl gave me notions. Like I like 'em young. With nice firm young tits and smooth skin-without creepy, creepy wrinkles.'

"I didn't mean to hurt her. But she just stood there a moment, staring at me. Then she turned toward the mirror set in the door and walked over slowly, peering at herself, lifting first one breast and then the other and turning her head to look at her neck, and then down at the fine wrinkles across her belly. I guess that was the first time she'd taken a good look at herself in years.

"She didn't even turn toward me; she just walked slowly into her cabin, not even looking back. How'd I know she had those pills? And would take 'em-and write that goddamn, stupid note. As Mother Darling I loved her. As-that other-well, frankly I got to be scared of her in that mood, even if she was a hot number, even if we did have plenty of first-class fucking. I don't think I'll ever understand her. She was really two different people. One of them was Mother Darling, charming, gracious, even witty, and the other… God, I don't know. I just don't know."

The prognosis for Eddie M-, in spite of the tragic ending that his mother encountered, is relatively optimistic, at least in the development of his sexual nature. It is highly unlikely that he has succumbed to any strong gerontophilic urges; it is doubtful that he had actually had any such urges even while he was having the affair with his mother.

The tragedy of Eddie's mother, clearly evident from the preceding narrative need not be expanded on any further. One can only say that it is unfortunate that she had not had the opportunity to question the nature of her life and the demons of mind and body before they drove her to oblivion. The End